Stories by @peterjudge04

Middlesex (TV Miniseries) - Episode 1: “Smyrna”

Cal Stephanides, a Greek-American intersex transgender man living in Berlin, recalls the story of his grandparents and siblings Lefty and Desdemona. The two siblings/spouses leave the Turkish city of Smyrna while Turkish soldiers are burning it down and killing Greeks and Armenians.

Shake, Señora!

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr., 1927-2023) was an American singer, actor and activist. He is mostly remembered for introducing Caribbean music to the mainstream public with his album "Calypso" (1956). Among his most famous tunes: "Day-O (Banana Boat)", "Jump in the line", "Jamaica Farewell", "Brown Skin Girl". He was also an actor, featuring in movies like "Carmen Jones" (1954), with Dorothy Dandrige. He was also a civil rights activist and friend of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., a human rights activist in Africa and a liberal political activist and critic of US Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump. He received three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

The Princess And The Frog

New Orleans, 1920s: Tiana always dreamed of opening a charming restaurant in the center of the town. Young broke Prince Naveen comes to town to marry a rich girl and save his economic situation but Dr. Facilier, an evil voodoo priest and warlock, transforms the prince in a frog by cheating. Naveen, mistaking Tiana for a princess, asks her to kiss him, and she does it, thinking it will work. However, it works... but backwards: Tiana gets transformed in a frog too! Now, they'll have to come back to normality and stop the evil wizard from taking control of the city.

The Road to El Dorado

Spain, XVI century: Tulio and Miguel, two conmen, find a map for El Dorado, the wonderful city of gold. They two embark as stowaways on the ship of Hernan Cortes, the evil Conquistador general who wants also to reach and conquer El Dorado. Reached the city, Tulio and Miguel are mistaken as gods by its inhabitants. Will they exploit the situation? Or will romance and friendship survive? In addition, Tulio starts a lovely relationship with a local woman named Chel.

Malcolm X (1977)

Spike Lee's Malcolm X biopic imagined 25 years earlier.

Tutenstein

Tutankhensetamun is the youngest Pharaoh to sit on the Throne of Egypt. He's given a magic stick, but while playing with it he falls from a pyramid and dies. Mummified, he comes back to life thank to the stick in modern days, where he meets Cleo Carter, a young Africa-American girl obsessed with Ancient Egypt who lives with her single mother Iris. Initially hostile towards her, they two become friends and, alongside Cleo's talking cat Luxor, they embark in several adventures, mostly against Set, the Egyptian god of chaos, enemy of Tutenstein, as the girl renamed him.

Rekkit Rabbit

Jay Schmufting, a loser teenage boy who lives in an American suburb with his mother Henrietta and stepdad Lorne, meets a half-crazy, giant anthropomorphic rabbit who's escaping from his former master - evil sorcerer Yoshimi - and goes to live with him. Rekkit will make every of Jay's wishes come true, but there will be odd consequences...

Mein Kampf

The life and times of Adolf Hitler, Fürher of Nazi Germany, from a nonpartisan point of view.

Gods and Earths

Born in poverty in Virginia, after fighting in the Korean War and learning karate Clarence Smith becomes a minister of the Nation of Islam and disciple of Malcolm X, then develops his own cult, according to which all black men are Gods and all black women represent the Earth. Initially met with disdain by black residents and white authorities, Smith, now named Allah, will be capable to create unity in a microcosm of hate and violence.

Go Up, Musa

In this grotesque art-house picture, two captives escape their holders in a dry desert. Their odyssey has just started. All inspirations: "Dune" (2021), "Year One" (but WAY less trashy), "Kick-Ass", Nation of Islam, Five-Percent Nation, "Don Quixote", the Bible.

Robert Crumb's Characters

Robert Dennis Crumb (born in Philadelphia in 1943) is one of most well-known (if not the most well-known) American underground comics artist who raised to fame in the 1960s. Among his most famous characters are Fritz the Cat, Mister Natural and Devil Girl. His comics, known for their grotesque style and often sexual themes, have being accused of racism and misogyny. Inspired by Rodriguezjace Random Castings.

Kinte: An American Saga (Miniseries) - Episode 6

Slavery is over. George Lea comes back to the States to free his relatives, but they're forced to live their state. Fortunately, the little town of Henning, Tennessee, welcomes a large black population, and the Murrays move to it. A century later, a writer named Alex Haley discovers through 12 years of searching that his the great-great-great-great-grandson of Kunta Kinte.

Kinte: An American Saga (Miniseries) - Episode 5

George marries Matilda and fathers many children. However, he's forced to live the States for a great job opportunity. He's reassured by the fact that when he'll come back, his family will be free. But a war is coming, and freedom could arrive earlier for the descendants of Kunta Kinte...

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III - Stardust Crusaders

Japan, 1988: a bumbling juvenile delinquent must pack up with his boisterous American grandfather, a Japanese top student, a pompous Frenchman and a mysterious Egyptian fortune teller to save his mother from an evil overlord.

Muhammad: Prophet of God

The story of Muhammad and early Islam. As for Islamic tradition, Muhammad is never seen, nor his voice is heard, nor even his shadow is seen, with many scenes featuring the Prophet filmed in the first person. Remake of "The Message" (1976) by Moustapha Akkad. Other influences: "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy by Peter Jackson, "300", "Noah", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (Part 1 and 2)". "The Prince of Egypt", "Joseph: King of Dreams".

You People (1993)

A 35 years old white Jewish man named Ezra falls in love with Amira, a young black Muslim woman. They love each other and want to get married, but Akbar, Amira's Muslim traditionalist father tries to test Ezra to be sure he's the right man for his daughter.

Terrible Rosy

A biopic about Rosalind Franklin, the woman who discovered DNA, from an unusual point of view: Ms. Franklin never appears in the movie, and the story is told posthumously through the eyes of writer Anne Sayre, who's writing a book about the scientist and interviews significant people in her life. Influences: "Woman in Gold", "Hannah Arendt", "The Imitation Game".

Middlesex

The epic saga of the Greco-American Stephanides family, from their escape from Turkey to fly the persecutions by Ataturk's soldiers to Detroit, with all of its 20th century history: the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, cult leaders, race riots, hippies, counter-culture... reaching the life and story of Calliope, later Cal, a child who is different from the others.

Kinte: An American Saga (Miniseries) - Episode 4

The main character of Episode 4 is George Lea, dubbed "Chicken George", son through violence of Kizzy Kinte and her white master Tom Lea: his life is followed from his birth to his career success as a cock fighting trainer.

Kinte: An American Saga (Miniseries) - Episode 3

In this episode, we follow the life of Kizzy, daughter of Kunta and Bell: from her birth to her sale and separation from her parents.