Deborah Jane hits society’s core with Strange Fruit: The Hip Hopera
It’s evident that Deborah Jane’s first play, The Hip Hopera which played to a sold out crowd while she was a junior at Stanford University led her to a life changing calling. While attending USC School of Cinematic Arts, she began turning The Hip Hopera into a screen play now called Strange Fruit: The Hip Hopera...
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2024 Historical Musical Drama Short Film
Strange Fruit: The Hip-hopera isn't just another slave movie. It is a powerful call to confront America's legacy of racism. We are not rehashing Black trauma, we are telling a story for all generations through a wildly modern perspective. Through the revolutionary language of rap, song and dance, this hip-hop musical aims to ignite racial reconciliation across the country.
Our premiere short film won Best Musical of the Year at Indie Night's Film Festival and Best Story at the Experimental Dance & Music Film Festival. It serves as the proof-of-concept in our campaign to produce a Hollywood feature film. Imagine a powerful Black woman in the 21st century being thrust back into the 1800s as a slave with only one chance to escape back to her reality. This is the story of LASHELLE ROBINSON, a dynamic, spit-fire Wall Street executive (think a Kamala Harris type), who travels back in time to rescue her ancestor, INKA, from a terrible lynching – all to lift the curse off her white fiancé, TODD DECATUR, the love of her life.
Be a part of the mission and the movement! Join our instagram community, share our short film and contribute to a national conversation on racial reconciliation.
Strange Fruit: The Hip-Hopera "Hear the Cry"
Our mission is to launch a national college tour screening the short film and holding panels on racial reconciliation. If you are interested in setting up a screening of Strange Fruit: The Hip-Hopera "Hear the Cry," please contact Executive Producer Deborah Jane Burke at Deborahjane@hodjstudios.com.
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