“I wanted to make sure that I didn’t demonize them or their beliefs, which came from a maturity I had to grow into before making the film,” Youmans said in a phone interview. He came to set and spoke to them. As Tillman, Wendell Pierce embodies the machismo that makes so many church … I wrote this short script called The Glory, which at the time was about the same Helen that we see in Burning Cane… I wrote an email to Ava and Tilane Jones, the president of Array, and then a week or so later I was in the [NYU] library just studying, and I got a call from Ava and I freaked out. It was when we were shooting that sequence of Wendell [Pierce] driving in the cane fields, and he turns into a driveway that was adjacent to the slave quarters. “But I do want people to be able to appreciate the film on its own merits, and not because it was made by a teenager.”, Prior the film’s Tribeca premiere, he was anxious knowing that his deeply religious family — especially his mother — who would be seeing the film for the first time. So I got an editing suite. Oscar Noms for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Reflect Years of Hollywood Diversity Efforts, The MCU and MonsterVerse Blend Film and TV, but Here’s What Keeps Them Apart — TV Podcast, Oscars Stir Controversy Among Nominees with Banned Zoom Speeches, but Nobody Has a Better Solution, What Does a Childhood Memory Look and Sound Like? Burning Cane features stellar performances from its cast, including Wendell Pierce, in the role of the tormented reverend, who was nominated at the Independent Spirit Awards and won Best Actor at the Tribeca Festival where the film has received the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Narrative Feature. “And after our first two years of training, they just said, ‘Here’s all the gear you need, now go be artists.’ That’s what I really valued.”. I mean the was the first time I had ever really shown the film to a predominantly black audience through and through. Mayer joined his friend Phillip Youmans, in high school, to edit a short screenplay titled “The Glory” into the script for the full-length film “Burning Cane.” After winning jury awards for the Best Narrative Feature, Best Cinematography and Best Actor at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, “Burning Cane” is now available on Netflix. He described his desire to “humanize blackness” and “unapologetically define our narrative,” especially as a black filmmaker, and said both impulses will continue to influence his work. Squidward: Okay, try this. However, it also has required him to confront his complicated feelings about the community where he grew up. I’m gonna be real: Mose and his father were the only white people there — the rest of us were all black. The film’s then-17-year-old director and writer is New Orleanian Phillip Youmans. It was something that I just did on my own. “I love New York and NYU is dope, but NOCCA gave me a lot of the technical foundation of filmmaking,” he said. Citizen Kane script by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles Like “Burning Cane,” both are feature-length directing debuts. Phillip Youmans wrote, directed, and shot " Burning Cane", his Tribeca-winning debut feature. After the festival, Array seemed to be the most interested. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Burning Cane Matt Fagerholm October 23, 2019. It’s another story that’s personal to Youmans, who was introduced to this particular group while in high school. Youmans was honored for his film “Burning Cane,” starring New Orleans native Wendell Pierce. VENICE 2019 Giornate degli Autori. TWITTER With Zeitlin onboard as an executive producer, the movie is poised to bring Youmans a whole new set of opportunities. Phillip Youmans is the director of "Burning Cane." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Sugar cane burning occurs over a comparatively short period of time, after which the crop does not smolder, which is the main cause of carbon emissions in forest fires. In a small Louisiana town, whose every resident is black, Reverend Tillman (Wendell Pierce) delivers his sermon upon the world’s iniquities, its greediness, and its subsequent Godlessness. Youmans talked to THR about the inspiration behind his film and finding distribution via Ava DuVernay's Array Releasing. 19-year-old Phillip Youmans' first film "Burning Cane" won three awards at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. "Burning Cane" Mar 8, 2020 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. “The Cane”, directed by Vicky Featherstone, finds Mr Ravenhill addressing these themes in a calmer voice. It is just a grassroots distributor, and Burning Cane, in a way, was made through a very, very, very grassroots level of filmmaking, so there are tons of ways, tons of parallels where I felt it was going to be the perfect film. And the questions that came from those screenings were unlike any others in terms of honestly being able to have both the conversations about cultural consequences of stories like this. [squats for a second, then starts marching in place while twirling his cane. [stretches his bow tie] It's simple. 7:00 AM PST 2/8/2020 Burning Cane is indebted to the work of Malick, clearly, though focused closer to the ideas of Beasts of the Southern Wild, minus the magic and less realistic elements. A version of this story first appeared in the Feb. 5 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Set in rural Louisiana, “Burning Cane” stars Karen Kaia Livers and Wendell Pierce in a lyrical, sensitive story that registers as one of the most exciting black films of the year so far, and it establishes Youmans as mature director with a fully-realized voice despite his youth. The filmmaker, now 19, is nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at Feb. 8's Indie Spirit Awards, bestowed upon films made for less than $500,000. Images from Burning Cane (Phillip Youmans, 2019). The first moment that we said we were doing it honestly came earlier on than we really had the on-paper ability to say that we were going to do it. I eagerly awaited each sip of wine, knowing it would help dissolve the tasteless wafer in my mouth. The film was completed and ready for festival submissions at around the same time Youmans was finishing up his high school senior year in the early summer of 2018. This film has been out for several months now. Burning Cane. Burning Cane, 2019. “It’s hard to really separate my age from the discussion because that’s just who I am, and I totally understand that it’s part of the story,” he said. © 2021 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. FACEBOOK That was the first time I tried to do a theatrical [release]. Burning Cane was created by Phillip Youmans when he was 17, still in high school (he's 19 now). Burning Cane is clearly literate in the style of Charles Burnett, and the spare way Youmans lights his characters brings to mind the work of cinematographer … I repeated it at least three or four times. For the 19-year-old, who is a New Orleans native, Burning Cane developed from a short film script titled “The Glory” that he wrote while attending New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). Sitemap | It's a low budget movie but a lot is left to your imagination. “Although I think she and the rest of my immediate family are coming to terms with the fact that I think differently and that it’s OK.”. … I really went to two high schools. Phillip Youmans was 16 years old when he became obsessed with the prospect of making a feature film. Financing for principal photography came together through an Indiegogo campaign, as well as funds his producer raised, Youmans’ entire savings, and contributions from his family. Inspired by this childhood experiences in the Southern Baptist church — an institution he would later distance himself from — the film is a meditation on the church’s immense influence over its community. In broad strokes, Burning Cane is about a Black community struggling for purpose and dignity as their church fails to solve the complications of … At Tribeca, “Burning Cane” has been warmly received — but Youmans has been on the radar of the industry for quite some time, going back to when he first contacted “Beasts of the Southern Wild” director Benh Zeitlin on Instagram. "Burning Cane" received 3 awards at Tribeca … “The person that Benh was surpassed every expectation I had,” Youmans said. He was a junior in high school at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), where he had just written a short screenplay for a school assignment. Mayer joined his friend Phillip Youmans, in high school, to edit a short screenplay titled “The Glory” into the script for the full-length film “Burning Cane.” After winning jury awards for the Best Narrative Feature, Best Cinematography and Best Actor at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, “Burning Cane” is … The stress of applying to college is one thing. It was rural Louisiana, Laurel Valley, and it was very, very clear that there was a reason why that overseer felt so — it wasn’t in any way a welcoming environment. | California Privacy Rights Privacy Policy | The door opens and Squidward appears] Squidward: The coast looks clear... [steps outside, and closes the door to his house, and standing in front of it with his hands over it as if he does not want anyone to see him. In April, the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. At 19 years old, Phillip Youmans’ career as a filmmaker is just beginning. Written, directed, shot, and edited by Phillip Youmans during his final years of high school Burning Cane tells the story of a deeply religious woman's struggle to reconcile her convictions of faith with the love she has for her alcoholic son and a troubled preacher. The New Orleans director made his Tribeca Film Festival premiere “Burning Cane” when he was still in high school, and now he’s a 19-year-old film student on the rise. If you haven't sen it yet it will be a spoiler though. Don't forget to smash that like button and hit subscribe!The Scripts: https://pastebin.com/6nWmTadFDownload Trigon Here: https://arponag.xyz/trigon/ Array works within the spaces of filmmakers of color and women filmmakers. Movie Scripts. The quiet drama is a delicate dance for Youmans, as he works through his own complicated feelings about the differences he has with the God-fearing people who raised him. From the very first frame, Youmans’ affinity for Louisiana is quite apparent. I started turning out drafts of the script literally during class, whether it was English class or social studies. "Burning Cane" won jury awards for best feature, actor and cinematography at the Tribeca Film Festival. We were relying so much on the community to pull off shooting locations for free and using gear that none of us was able to afford. Mia Galuppo This is the latest installment of “Breaking Black,” a weekly column focused on emerging black talent. EMAIL ME. The body remains the battleground, but sex has been removed from the equation. “I was kind of horrified,” he said. This is a teenager who expanded upon a short film script during his senior year of high school and found himself lucking his way into meeting the right influential people at the exact right times. Youmans is getting used to addressing that part of the equation. The buzz surrounding “Burning Cane” out of its Tribeca premiere has led the auteur-in-training to contemplate whether he event needs to finish his education in New York. He wasted no time writing and directing his own film, Burning Cane, which won him, at age 19, a Founders Award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Phillip Youmans is the 19-year-old director of Burning Cane. Seeing its potential as a feature — one that could be made inexpensively — Webb convinced Youmans to pursue the idea. Movie Scripts > "B" page 114 > Burning Cane (2019) Burning Cane (2019) 1 [birds chirping] [woman] Jojo has been my best friend ... sugar cane fields and tied him around a cane stalk to dry him in the sun. Phillip Youmans, Director: Burning Cane. Click here to subscribe. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Aside from the film earning top prizes at the festival—including Best Narrative […] It was important that he humanized their experiences and, in doing so, come to terms with his lifelong struggles with religion. Copyright © 2021 Penske Business Media, LLC. While Youmans wrote, directed, shot and edited his film during his final years of high school, he also got a major assist from Zeitlin, whose Oscar-nominated “Beasts” unfolds against a similar New Orleans backdrop (though Youmans swaps magical realism for more naturalistic storytelling). Pre-harvest Burning. He started writing the script for his first feature length film, Burning Cane, during his junior year of high school. Like most children brought up Catholic, my first taste of alcohol was at church. It was just the summer was really the only full block of time that we could do it without all of us having to go to class. We started shooting in July 2017. Was there an obstacle that came up during filming that sticks out to you? By the time Zeitlin got involved, however, Youmans had already made a lot of progress on his own. Burning Cane drops its audience into the cane fields of rural Louisiana, following the life of Helen Wayne (Karen Kaia Livers) as she tries, to no avail, to cure her dog Jojo of mange. The film has yet to land U.S. distribution, but Youmans said there has been some early interest. Burning Cane (2019) Movie Script. His main priority at the moment is making his next film, which he’s already written, about the 1978 New Orleans chapter of the Black Panthers. The truth: The bulk of my actual writing came when I was at Ben Franklin because I was, for some reason, far more productive in classes, when I wasn't supposed to be working on it. 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In December of his junior year, the then 16-year-old started writing the script for his now award-winning film "Burning Cane." By July of the same year, he was filming, while still revising the script. I started in the morning at Ben Franklin High School until 11:30 a.m. and then I went to the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. When he presented the script to Isaac Weeb, his mentor and an instructor at NOCCA, Phillip was encouraged to expand the idea into a feature-length script. C ourtesy of Denizen Pictures. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! These are contrasts that Youmans finds compelling. There is an overseer at the Laurel Valley Planation that called the cops on us twice. Various locations - please see event's web page Barcelona. Burning Cane; 3 replies. “Here he is, a brilliant filmmaker who is also just a really good dude who has shown me nothing but love.”. “But what I do hope that everyone who sees it takes from it, is not my issues with the church, but to see the human stories, and the cyclical nature of destructive behavior.”, Youmans describes himself as “probably agnostic,” while admitting that he’s still working through it all. The initial version of “Burning Cane” was a short script written during his junior year of high school, in December 2016. I directed this short called Ivory (pictured above) that I released at the Zeitgeist [Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center] in New Orleans. Starring Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, Dominique McClellan, Braelyn Kelly, Emyri Crutchfield, and … ((2)Lara, 2005) While removal of leaves may also be carried out by field workers, field burning costs much less money and makes the cane easier to harvest. Mostly inspired by his upbringing and questions about the southern Black church culture/spirituality, Youmans explained that the film was a form of therapy for him. An alumnus of the prestigious NOCCA, a pre-professional arts training center for high school students which provides intensive instruction in various arts, Youmans believes he received comparable film school training while there. Tweet. Movie Scripts > "B" page 114 > Burning Cane (2019) Burning Cane (2019) 1 [birds chirping] [woman] Jojo has been my best friend ... sugar cane fields and tied him around a cane stalk to dry him in the sun. Like his separation from the church, his experiences with the group inspired the direction of his story. Burning Cane writer-director Phillip Youmans discusses the real-life inspiration for the film, how he made the film while still in high school, getting picked up for distribution by Ava DuVernay's ARRAY, and much more.. How long did it take you to write the script? Burning Cane is about fear, legacy, and shame, and the intersection of these is at the heart of the film, its protagonists all approaching the intersection at breakneck speed. Bijan Gouri. Unlike Burning Cane, whose plot reflects his mission as a filmmaker, No Illness ... the two were close friends, so Elzy shared the actor’s contact info. “But I’m just excited for people finally to see the film.”. “I want to tell authentic black stories, understanding that you must be willing to accept that we are not infallible,” he said. So literally 30 minutes later, a platoon of Lafourche Parish sheriff’s officers were swarming us. Now, his film has received the highest award on the 18th Tribeca Movie Competition. This movie reminds me so much of the folks back in the day in my village; especially Momma, her abusive lazy drunken son and the hypocrite preacher. He won the award for Best Cinematographer and Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca for “Burning Cane.” “He sent me the script, and I thought it was going to be a short, and then it turned out to be a feature film,” said Pierce. He won the award for Best Cinematographer and Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca for “Burning Cane.” “He sent me the script, and I thought it was going to be a short, and then it turned out to be a … It takes place during the harvest season, lasting from May to November (dry season) in the South and East, (Cannavam Rípoli, 2000) with the peak of the burning season being in August. “I think it’s hard for me to take a moment, step back, and think about it a little bit because there’s so much to do, and it feels like there’s really no second to sit down,” he said. Burning of sugarcane residues is a common practice all over the world, especially in developing countries, though not exclusive to them. It was OK because I had applied for a permit and we weren’t trespassing, but they only really wanted to listen to [producer] Mose [Mayer]’s father. The film follows an aging mother as she struggles with her religious convictions and the love for her son amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana. Shot in the style of Cinéma vérité, it's difficult to follow as the film … But when Wendell pulling in and pulling out, that guy called the cops and said that Wendell was trespassing. The initial version of “Burning Cane” was a short script written during his junior year of high school, in December 2016. That isn’t by any means the most interesting thing to be said about his movie, but neither is Youmans’s precocity something to be overlooked. My favorite ones were at [historically black] Spelman [College] and at the National African American History Museum in Washington, D.C. [The scene zooms in on Squidward's house. He had to come to set. “Burning Cane” gave Zeitlin a new initiative: Under his New Orleans-based non-profit collective Court 13 Arts, he took on the young Youmans as a disciple, and helped him secure a grant that would allow him to complete post-production on “Burning Cane.”, “Benh sat with me day after day for hours, as we went through all the footage, helping to find the story in the editing room,” Youmans said. The writing process started in December of my junior year. Youmans’ influences are evident in “Burning Cane”: Terrence Malick, whose “Days of Heaven” and “Badlands” are two of Youmans’ all-time favorite films, looms large in his work; he also loves Paul Thomas Anderson, Steve McQueen and African cinema pioneer Djibril Diop Mambety. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. It came from the questions, the hypocrisies, the fallacies that I recognized in the church. I directed this short called Ivory (pictured above) that I released at the Zeitgeist [Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center] in New Orleans. Burning Cane features a small cast of deeply complex characters, and the performances are extremely realistic and natural, but that also makes the film feel extremely mundane The duality of man is on display here, butnunfortunately, it doesn’t seem like anyone learns much of anything I just wasn’t very engaged with any of the content, although I enjoyed how realistically raw the film felt Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. Phillip Youmans was once simply 17 and completing highschool when he finished his lyrical debut function movie, "Burning Cane." At 19 years old, Phillip Youmans’ career as a filmmaker is just beginning. By then, he was gearing up for another project: film school. I repeated it at least three or four times. It sort of became a pilot project for Court 13’s new cinema lab.”, Youmans said he reached out to Zeitlin in part due to their New Orleans connection, as well as his admiration for the director’s work. The writing process started in December of my junior year. “A lot of people didn’t even know New Orleans had a Panther chapter, and I just want to shed some light on that,” he said, “especially since the city was under de facto Jim Crow law as late as 1970, and yet something so unapologetically pro-black thrived, despite the police making their lives hell.”. In December of his junior year, the then 16-year-old started writing the script for his now award-winning film "Burning Cane." In terms of what you would think it would take to actually make a feature, it was nothing that seemed like it would be enough, from a lot of people's standards. The film highlight The film follows an aging mother as she struggles with her religious convictions and the love for her son amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana. Photograph: Jason Mendez/Getty Images With Zeitlin’s assistance, he was able … The initial version of “Burning Cane” was a short script written during his junior year of high school, in December 2016. Young filmmakers often generate a lot of buzz on the festival circuit, but Phillip Youmans makes them all look old. “We became friends instantly, and he offered a lot, like facilitating feedback sessions. He showed it to a man he called “one of the most formative teachers in my entire life,” his media arts instructor at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Isaac Webb. For now, he’s trying to enjoy the spotlight, which is likely expand as “Burning Cane” travels. I wrote this short script called The Glory, which at the time was about the same Helen that we see in Burning Cane. Shot over the summer of his junior year in high school in New Orleans, Burning Cane is set in the sugar cane fields of rural Louisiana and follows Helen Wayne (Karen Kaia Livers), who is navigating her religious convictions and the addictions of her son and pastor. 'Burning Cane' Trailer: First Look at Tribeca Winner Directed by 19-Year-Old Rising Star Phillip Youmans, 'Burning Cane': Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Acquires 19-Year-Old Phillip Youmans' Feature Debut, 'Obi-Wan Kenobi': Everything You Need to Know About the Disney+ Series. Inspiration for Burning Cane. All rights reserved. February 20, 2020. Burning Cane really is a movie that lets its performances breathe. | EU Privacy Preferences. He completed an 80-page draft by the end of his junior year, just five months later. In April, Youmans — by then a student at NYU film school — became the youngest director to screen a film at the Tribeca Film Festival and the first black director to win the festival's top prize, the Founders Award. Burning Cane is your first feature, but you’d directed a short before this.. I think the biggest obstacle — or at least the scariest one — probably was just shooting on the Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation. At what point did you and your producers, who were your classmates, decide that Burning Cane was something that could be made? I started to look at other people in my life, like my grandmother, my mother, the pastors I have known, the people who have worked in the church around me — all those kinds of people who were important in my life, and a lot of them who actually lived in Lowcountry South Carolina. He showed it to a man he … This Article is related to: Film and tagged Burning Cane, Phillip Youmans. Currently a freshman at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Youmans said he would have followed his mother’s footsteps into a career in medicine, had it not been for his discovery of filmmaking early in high school. ‘Burning Cane’ Review: A Visually Poetic Debut Told with Stark Honesty. 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