WOLF CALL is brought to you by the makers of “Empty Space”: Winner of 8 festival awards, 4 nominations, and dozens of official selections. “Wolf Call” is the next installment in the Emmett Till, civil rights saga: a transfixing, true-story of the historic interviews that became a lightning rod for moral outrage and pivotal in inspiring a whole generation of young people to commit to social change in the 1950s.

Cinematographer and co-producer, Aravind Ragupathi, pays visual tribute to 1950s news and television anchors in how the set, props, and shot selection are woven into the story-telling. And, the visual tricks he employs in “Wolf Call” were created on camera while filming, using techniques employed in the 1950s.

The film stars MIKE WILEY, winner of multiple Best Actor Awards in 2009 & 2010 for his performance in 'Empty Space,' including Best Actor at the 25th Black International Cinema Berlin.

In WOLF CALL, Mike Wiley is William Bradford Huie of Look magazine…

In September of 1955, in Money, Mississippi a jury found Roy Bryant Jr. and J.W. Milam both not guilty of murdering 14-year old Emmett Till from Chicago. Before the trial they had admitted to kidnapping Emmett, but held no blame in his disappearance and consequent murder. They weren’t even indicted for the abduction: off scot-free, clean as a whistle. Not a word had been uttered outside a courtroom by them or their kin, until now. Without this missing piece of the puzzle, hypocrisy and myth had flourished.
It is now January 24, 1956, nearly six months after the kidnapping, murder and subsequent trial. William Bradford Huie sits down with the accused killers, J.W. and Roy, two men who have been hoisted on the shoulders of white supremacy.

Huie questions the men, not as a journalistic source and not as interrogator to witness, but as a southern white man to southern white men. He knows they did it, that answer is brutally obvious. What this reporter wants to understand, what Look magazine is paying $4000 dollars to print and what several million Americans just like you will pay to read and gossip over is, why?

As Roy and J.W. open up to Huie, hypocrisy is exposed, myth dispelled…

Length of Film: 12 min

AWARDS (7):

Black International Cinema, Berlin
WINNER: *Best Film*
Berlin, GERMANY – Western Europe PREMIERE
May 2011

Hollywood Black Film Festival
WINNER: *Best Short Film*
Beverly Hills, U S A
October 2011

Carrboro Film Festival
WINNER: *Audience Choice Award* & *Award for Best Actor, Mike Wiley*
Carrboro, U S A - North America PREMIERE
November 2010

Magnolia Independent Film Festival
WINNER: *Elena Zastawnik Award for Best Written Film*
Starkville, U S A - Mississippi PREMIERE
February 2011

North Carolina Black Film Festival
WINNER: *Best Short Subject*
Wilmington, NC, U S A
March 2011

Twin Rivers Media Festival
WINNER: *Audience Choice Award*
Asheville, NC U S A
May 2011

NOMINATIONS (4):

Black Reel Awards - Nominated: Best Short Film - Washington, U S A - February 2012

Appalachian Film Festival - Nominated: Best Short Film - Huntington, WV U S A - February 2012

Texas Black Film Festival - Nominated: Best Short Film & Best Actor - Dallas, U S A - Texas PREMIERE

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS (other than listed above; 13):

San Diego Black Film Festival - San Diego, U S A - January 2012
Urbanworld Film Festival, BET Networks - New York, U S A - New York PREMIERE - September 2011
Lewiston Auburn Film Festival - Leiston, MA U S A - Maine PREMIERE – April 2012
Mississippi International Film Festival - Jackson, MS U S A - October 2011
Clarksdale Film Festival - Clarksdale, MS U S A - January 2012
International Black Man Film Festival - Atlanta, U S A - November 2011
Ava Gardner Film Festival - Smithfield, NC U S A - October 2011
San Francisco Black Film Festival - San Francisco, U S A - California PREMIERE - June 2011
Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video - Chicago, U S A - Illinois PREMIERE - August 2011
Carolina Film and Video Festival - Greensboro, NC U S A - February 2011
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival - Seattle, U S A - Washington PREMIERE - April 2011
JC PowerHouse Short Film Festival - Jersey City, NJ U S A - New Jersey PREMIERE - September 2011
Crossroads Film Festival - Jackson, MS U S A - March 2011