The actual steps of Chris’s case as it moves through the system are gratifyingly low-key, played for authenticity rather than melodrama. The problem is that the dialogue is often very on-the-nose, as if people are speaking in commentaries rather than in conversations. No one group is fully good or evil, though individual characters are – the Joneses are as upstanding as people get, and there’s a white church official who has enrobed Klansmen photos on the walls. This is a lot to work with, and the screenplay by Taheim Bryan gives everyone their due. Both their members and ordinary civilians are angry over unjustified police shootings. Ironically, at the same time all of this is happening, two of the city’s biggest gangs, the Bloods and the Crips, are trying to work out a truce. McKenzie’s survivors include an older brother, Kevin (Chris Kerson), who may or may not be sincere in his desire to get to the bottom of what happened, and a hothead younger brother, Josh (Brad Fleischer), who has his mind made up. Wounded, Chris shoots back and kills the other detective. Although Chris tries to de-escalate what shouldn’t be a situation in the first place, stating that he is a cop and that he wants to get his i.d., Detective Peter McKenzie (Rob Minutoli) draws his gun and fires. They are confronted by two white plainclothes detectives. One night, Chris is hanging out with a friend. The Joneses are black, but while they are concerned about racism, it doesn’t seem to be a major factor when they’re on the job. NYPD Detective Chris Jones (Tobias Truvillion) and his wife, NYPD Sergeant Jackie Jones (Syleena Johnson), are happy with their marriage, their young daughter, and their careers. The plot and intended scope of EQUAL STANDARD might be better served by an HBO miniseries. For big-city viewers, this is a decent price, especially if there’s more than one viewer. Release Date (streaming on demand at ): May 14, 2020ĮQUAL STANDARD stakes a claim in the Wild West of movie distribution during Covid-19 lockdown by making itself available at for $9.99. Stars: Tobias Truvillion, Syleena Johnson, Chris Kerson, Brad Fleischer, Rob Minutoli, Ice-T, Robert Clohessy He knew that he had a knack for storytelling, and there weren’t many production company executives that could tell tales from the trenches the way he could.EQUAL STANDARD movie poster | ©2020 C.O.D. It was during this time he began writing – for Bryan, it wasn’t fiction. He’d go on to meet some of rap's biggest influences, including Fat Joe and Ice-T. His reputation in the streets would precede him, and he leveraged relationships he’d made there and in prison, along with hard work and a resolve not to return to his previous activities. It would be the first of many bids, and the aspiring screenwriter would spend much of his late teens and 20s in a cell.Īfter his last release, Bryan was hired in the mailroom at Loud Records. Seeking the leadership that his abusive and mostly absent father hadn’t provided, Bryan became captivated by the streets, rising to prominence in the community after his first arrest and trip to the notoriously hard prison, Rikers Island. Growing up in Queens during the height of the drug epidemic in the 1980s, Bryan made a living and gained status in the same way many others who grew up in the New York City projects did – dealing drugs. With his debut film, Equal Standard, due out in 2020, Taheim Bryan reflects relationships between police officers and the community through a lens unseen – a lens focused on uniting neighborhoods and communities. Experience, passion, talent, and artistry combine to create First Born Production’s Films and Series.
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