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The making of / Behind the scenes
With Ron Duncan's The Hip-Hop Kid script having been written for sometime, its actual production was more than a year in the making.
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Below are photos of the short film's Hollywood TCL Chinese 6 Theatre Local Preview as the 2nd screening of the African American Drama Company's 40th anniversary Phillip E. Walker Short Film Acting Retrospective Series, which is presented by the Indie Night Film Festival; from the Radio Theatre For Your Soul table read of the script; pre-production publicity photos of the principle cast plus a screen shot of that cast from the Movie's ending scene.
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LEFT to Right: Salina Marie Carter as Sunny, Phillip E. Walker as Kango & Michael Douglas Goodman as Benji
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LEFT to Right: Phillip E. Walker as Kango, Michael Douglas Goodman as Benji & Salina Marie Carter as Sunny
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Phillip E. Walker as Kango
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Michael Douglas Goodman at Accelerated Radio in Los Angeles, CA USA
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Salina Marie Carter at Accelerated Radio in Los Angeles, CA USA
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HHK Director Ron Duncan & Accelerated Radio Host Shonnese Coleman