Bushman

Overview

1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.

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Director

Cast

Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam

Gabriel/Bushman

Elaine Featherstone

Alma

Mike Slye

Motorcyclist

Lothario Lotho

Alma’s brother

Jack Nance

Felix

Patrick Gleeson

Marty

Donna Michelson

Diane

Ann Scofield

White Girl

James Earl Garrison

Friend

Shezwae Powell

Black Waitress

Timothy Near

Suzie

David Major

Black Friend

Curtis Branch

Curtis Branch

Florence Stanley

Steno Mask

John Dotson

John Dotson

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