The Ghetto Savants: True Grit(s): a faux cinema verite' docu-dramedy

Monday, January 21, 2008

True Grit(s): a faux cinema verite' docu-dramedy

True Grit(s): a faux cinema verite' docu-dramedy, uses the urban legend of Mary Woodson's gritty revenge against lover Al Green, as a springboard to explore the issue of cheating. Three directors (Tonya Pinkins, Shawn Carter Peterson, Blaine Teamer) combine documentary with narrative to examine the various facets of cheating. Tony Award winner Pinkins, comedian Kym Whitley (Fun with Dick and Jane, Nutty Professor II), Jonathan Julian (Noah's Arc), Indira Gibson (BUFU) and recording artist Sy Smith round out the dynamic and multi-cultural cast. Comedic and cathartic, people give their definitions of cheating and share their "True Grit(s)" experiences of when love went awry. You don’t know grit about cheating!

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Clinical Definition of Ghetto Savant

Ghetto Savant, sometimes abbreviated as ghettosavantism, is not a recognized medical diagnosis, but community psychologist Blaine Teamer defines it as a rare condition in which persons with environmental disorders (like being poor and/or from the ghetto) have one or more areas of expertise, ability or brilliance that causes a global paradigm shift and is in deep contrast with the individual's overall limitations (like being poor and/or from the ghetto). Teamer says the condition can be genetic, but can also be acquired, and coexists with other developmental disabilities such as being "too anything” (too fierce, too fly, too fab) or any dis-ease that occurs before (pre-natal) during (peri-natal) or after birth (post-natal), or even later in childhood or adult life.