Directors of Choice

Ernest R. Dickerson

Dikerson got his start in film at Howard University, where he majored in architecture and photography, filming operations for Howard's medical school. Later he went on to NYU, where he collaberated with Spike Lee to produce and directed several movies. He and Spike Lee's style are very similar, shining light on generally urban realistic situations. He's probably most known for his film, Juice, that stars rapper Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps.The film touches on the lives of 4 black youths growing up in harlem. It follows their day to day activities in addition to incidents of police brutality, financial struggles, and life decisions that ultimately causes their downfall. Dikerson's approach with juice really characterizes the Black Urban Culture, detailing realistic depictions of the lives of these young black men and their relation to one another.

Paul Haggis

Haggie attended Fanshawe College in Canada. He is definitely a director who's style is very distinguishable. He is probably most known for  Million Dollar Baby, the Next Three Days, and Crash. Throughout his movies, every character has some type of indirect realtion to one another. Specifically in Crash, every character interweave during these two days in LA. The subject media that he chose to approach also inspires me, even more so where he set the setting of the film. Crash is about the social and racial issues in LA,California. Setting this film in LA, a city who is all to familiar with those type of issues, is a very smart move.

I want to do a merge of two scenes from both Juice and Crash.Though the subject media isn't exactly the same I think the contrast of the two films will merge well together.