Thank you for checking this latest post out and taking time from your day to listen. Recently I attended a screening for a movie called Corsicana starring Isaiah Washington right outside of Houston Texas. It also happens to be Isaiah’s directorial debut.
I found out about the screening through his social media pages.
I knew I had to be there. It meant I had to rearrange my road-trip from California to Texas and do a quick turn around for an early flight out of Austin the next morning to Florida that I had already planned.
The journey to @starcinemagrill in the Houston area came with some resistance. Probably to test me to see how much I wanted to be there. But I knew I needed to not only screen the film but stand in front of this man and tell him some things. Encourage the cast and crew. Tell them some things too. Learn from them.
They all have a lot of passion for this project. To tell Bass Reeves story in such a short amount of time is not easy. But I was intrigued and I want to know more about this man. He had more than 3,000 arrests. Formal slave turned first black US Marshall. This is the kind of project I would want to score. To honor the man and his story. So I went ahead and wrote two different variations of the theme sketch as a response to what I watched.
Take a listen. Let me know what you think in the comments.
Go watch Corsicana in a theater near you. Help it get into more theaters.
Visit their website for a list of theaters.
Faith —the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
009 — Corsicana Theme | Terra Nova Release