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Taxi (6:29)
Javan Cornelius | Huntsville, AL
In every major city around America there is a cab driver who is not afraid to initiate the abnormal conversation. His or her passion to entertain customers verbally and repeated requests for the driver’s service, the result is a personal relationship with the customers. In this planned mini-documentary, we intend to select the most popular cab driver in Huntsville, Alabama, assign the driver, leveraging already-developed relationship, the duty of asking hand picked customers how Americans should deal with the effects of past racism, expulsion, and reparation issues presently? The cab driver will ask every customer, should African Americans dig up the past like the descendants of Forsyth County? Does digging up the past help the American Culture’s future? What is the best way to resolve issues around matters of race? In this three-minute short, we will hear numerous opinions from the American public on how to deal with these issues. This film plans to expose the different ideologies on race issues that exist between young and older Americans with differing cultural backgrounds.
Producer Biography:
Javan J. Cornelius, director of Taxi, studied documentary filmmaking under Director T.N. Mohan at Oakwood University. Cornelius’ aspirations to be a filmmaker started in high school. Then in 2005, Cornelius traveled to England and had his first real-world filmmaking experience on the film, A Heart Set Free. After returning from England, he was determined to write and direct his own films. Subsequently, Cornelius produced an educational film for the National Black Programming Consortium entitled, The Birth of an Institution. Cornelius is currently finishing a film he started in 2006 entitled, Chocolate City: The Documentary, which examines the significance of an historically Black college education through stories from students. Cornelius is also finishing a book entitled, Beating the Odds, which documents his dream to pursue a college education with limited finances while chasing the dream of producing an independent film. One of Cornelius’ goals in film is to eventually crossover to feature filmmaking and feature stories that evoke exploration beyond the stereotypical minority experience.
Javan J. Cornelius, director of Taxi, studied documentary filmmaking under Director T.N. Mohan at Oakwood University. Cornelius’ aspirations to be a filmmaker started in high school. Then in 2005, Cornelius traveled to England and had his first real-world filmmaking experience on the film, A Heart Set Free. After returning from England, he was determined to write and direct his own films. Subsequently, Cornelius produced an educational film for the National Black Programming Consortium entitled, The Birth of an Institution. Cornelius is currently finishing a film he started in 2006 entitled, Chocolate City: The Documentary, which examines the significance of an historically Black college education through stories from students. Cornelius is also finishing a book entitled, Beating the Odds, which documents his dream to pursue a college education with limited finances while chasing the dream of producing an independent film. One of Cornelius’ goals in film is to eventually crossover to feature filmmaking and feature stories that evoke exploration beyond the stereotypical minority experience.
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