New Documentary About the Late Ol’ Dirty Bastard Nominated for NAACP Award

That is the primary nomination for 4 Screens, the manufacturing and administration firm behind the movie.

Four Screens, the production company behind the ODB film

Co-director Jason Pollard, producers Nicole Beckett and Messiah Jacobs, and co-director Sam Pollard on the Grammys Museum screening of Ol’ Soiled Bastard: A Story of Two Dirtys

Nationwide — The NAACP nominations are out and 4 Screens’ documentary Ol’ Soiled Bastard: A Story of Two Dirtys has been nominated for finest director of a documentary. The Black and woman-owned manufacturing and administration firm is understood for creating genuine content material within the TV, movie, and documentary house.

“We’re completely honored that our movie has been nominated for an NAACP award for our co-directors Sam and Jason Pollard,” says Messiah Jacobs, Co-Founding father of 4 Screens and producer of the documentary. “Our firm has all the time had a mission of bringing culture-based tales to life. This nomination reveals that individuals are paying consideration and that we’re making a distinction within the tradition.”

Four Screens represents inventive legacy purchasers who’ve enriched the tradition and the world. The corporate makes a speciality of all mental property issues, from the seed of an concept to the ultimate product.

Ol’ Soiled Bastard: A Story of Two Dirtys is a provocative and tumultuous, behind-the-scenes take a look at icon Ol’ Soiled Bastard aka ODB—who altered the world of hip hop perpetually earlier than his life ended tragically younger—as by no means seen earlier than by means of the eyes of household, associates and different ground-breaking artists who knew him finest, together with members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Mariah Carey. The movie delves into the socio-political parts that induced Soiled’s rise and fall and the way those self same elements nonetheless have an effect on us immediately.

This documentary was years within the making, beginning with 4 Screens’ co-founders Messiah Jacobs and Nicole Beckett turning into the Property of ODB’s administration greater than a decade in the past.

“Because the Property’s administration staff, It was our aim to associate with ODB’s spouse Icelene Jones and the administrator of the property of ODB to convey his story to life in an genuine means,” says Jacobs. “With the partnership of Icelene and her foresight to doc the early days of ODB’s profession, we knew we may make a narrative that resonates in immediately’s Tradition.”

As producers, Jacobs, Beckett, Icelene, and her son Barsun Jones/YDB got down to create a documentary with the 4 Screens’ ethos in thoughts. 4 Screens finds its success in centering tales round underrepresented voices and champions a various inventive staff not simply in entrance of the digital camera however in each function obligatory for a profitable manufacturing.

“At 4 Screens we all know that essentially the most participating tales are advised by those that dwell them,” Beckett says. “Pictures and illustration within the tales we watch matter. In the event you don’t have numerous expertise behind the cameras, you gained’t see numerous content material achieved thoughtfully.”

“Once we teamed up with our companions at Pulse Movies and A&E, we made it clear that the director of this movie wanted to be somebody who had skilled hip hop and The Tradition first hand– and was a local of New York,” Jacobs says. “We discovered a dream staff within the Pollards, with Sam Pollard’s decade of expertise in filmmaking together with MLK/FBI, Mr. Soul! and Sammy Davis Jr: I’ve Gotta Be Me. We couldn’t move up on his son Jason Pollard for his unbelievable enhancing and directing abilities and his expertise rising up in New York throughout the nineties and dwelling the golden age of hip-hop firsthand.”

The ultimate NAACP Awards will likely be introduced on February 22. In the meantime, 4 Screens continues on with a slate of different tasks together with a hip-hop-themed graphic novel ODB: A Lyrical Ruckus within the Metropolis. Their first guide signing will likely be at E-book Soup in Hollywood on January 27 at 7pm with creators and writers Messiah Jacobs, Nicole Beckett, Jaxson Beckett-Williams, Jason Pierre, and Chris Robinson. The novel is out there now at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and native bookstores by means of Simon & Schuster.

Created in partnership with Oni Press and 4 Screens and formally approved by the Ol’ Soiled Bastard property, this taunt and turbulent graphic novel options contributions from an epic forged each bit as sprawling as town inside: Troy-Jeffrey Allen (Chuck D’s Apocalypse 91: Revolution By no means Sleeps), Paris Alleyne (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), David Brame (MediSIN), Dojo Gubser (Rot8ion), Jay Hero (Inexperienced Lantern), Maan Home (Bloodborne), Mike Del Mundo (Avengers), Jason Pierre (CW’s Within the Darkish), Ike Reed & David Gorden (Rampage Jackson’s Massive Brawl), Chris Robinson (Vince Staples’ Limbo Seashore), Regine Sawyer (Darkish Nights: Dying Metallic—The Final 52), Damion Scott (Batgirl), Felipe Sobreiro (“Bizarre Al” Yankovic’s The Illustrated Al), Ron Wimberly (Prince of Cats), and extra.