“Silhouettes” (Short Film)
An award winning short film by Akil DuPont. A fairy tale romance about a painter who sees the world through silhouettes. A tragic adoption from an orphanage in the 1930s separates Charles from his childhood sweetheart, Sylvia. Charles only sees the world through silhouettes, but learns to express himself through art. While working as a field hand, Charles and Sylvia reconnect 15 years later. Sylvia is engaged to a man that she can’t love and
Charles sets out to remind her about a side of herself that she lost long ago. Original score by Andre Forbes.
