‘Hill and Gully’ brings in the New Year
Posted: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:07 am By MISANI Special to the AmNews | Amsterdam News
Geoffrey Holder, the Tony Award-winning director, calls them “decent people’s children.” They are the gifted, thoughtful visionaries who see that something needs to be done for the betterment of society and, on a whim and a prayer, proceed to make it happen.
Enter Patrice Johnson Chevannes, an award-winning Brooklyn-based filmmaker and actress, and her company, God-and-all-o-wee LLC and Ubigwitus Entertainment, producers of the film, “Hill and Gully” (2008, U.S.A., 117 min.), which recently enjoyed a special debut screening on Dec. 9 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York.
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Patrice Johnson’s interview with Diarah Spech on NBC’s Positively Black with Tracie Strahanhttp://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/233215751.html
Patrice Johnson and Diarah Spech on Am WWRL….Rennie Bishop’s Caribbean Corner. (click on the link then scroll down to the bottom of the page and then click on Audio- Caribbean Corner with the African Diaspora International Film Festival)
Patrice Johnson interviewed by Robert Bernstein of The Culture Blog plus Hill and Gully Review
http://thecultureblog.com/main/patrice-johnson-a-filmmaker-using-new-approaches-to-achieve-success/
Women take charge at Twin Cities Black Film Festival
By Charles Hallman, November 14, 2013
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/women-take-charge-twin-cities-black-film-festival/
“Patrice Johnson (right) has an extensive acting resume, which includes writing, directing and producing. The Jamaican born and New York raised Johnson wrote, directed, and starred in Hill and Gully. It’s “an urban Cinderella story” set during the 2008 election year of Barack Obama around a mother (Johnson) who works at a Caribbean restaurant named after the film title, who has a mother who won’t leave the house and a 10-year-old daughter who is constantly acting out at school.”