Movie producer, Shuaib Mitchell (rear right) and cast of 'Too Saved' (with Urban Film Series partner
Corey 'CJ' Jenkins, rear center). James J.J. Johnson (Bobby) is not featured.
February 24, 2008 – (Washington, DC) Urban Film Series continues their presentation of the work of independent
urban film makers during its National Black History Month Film & Discussion Series.
Thursday’s screening of
'Too Saved' stars local film director Shuaib Mitchell, actors
Lolita Clayton (as Lisa), and James 'J.J.' Johnson (as Bobby) in a film depicting a young woman wanting her boyfriend (and future
husband) to be ‘saved’, but not wanting him 'too' saved.
When her prayer is answered, she struggles with the level of her boyfriend’s Christian comittment as he literally
changes (seemingly overnight) from a party-going, weed-smoking secular male, to not indulging in worldly vices at all, to
include intimacy.
While Lisa is not completely sure if she’s up to the challenge of accepting her newly saved boyfriend’s religious
conviction, she struggles with her own religious identity, and haunting issues from her childhood, that leave her questioning
her future with Bobby.
The film was shot on location in the DC metro area and contains footage of many of the area's historical landmarks
that include
Ben’s Chili Bowl, and the infamous section of Hains Point where the recently resurrected sculpture,
The Awakening, once resided. (
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Also shown at the screening was short film,
The Drawing Angel, by Howard University alumna Rosalyn Coleman Williams, and Craig T. Williams.
