Artists and Writers at Work: Interview with S Torriano Berry - a podcast by At the Edge An Afrofuturist Salon

This episode features Professor S. Torriano Berry, an associate professor at Howard University’s Department of Radio, Television, and Film.  We will discuss his self-published novel TEARS, a study on racism and its indoctrination into children;  "Hellbound Train," 1929, James & Eloyce Gist's historic cinematic sermon that was rediscovered in fragments in a vault at the LOA that Berry resurrected; and "RICH" his UCLA project 2 film-part of the L.A. Rebellion Traveling Film Series. Professor Berry is an award-winning independent filmmaker who  created and executive produced the anthology series Black Independent Showcase & Black Visions/Silver Screen: Howard University Student Film Showcase for WHUT-TV 32, in DC. His two half-hour television movies The Light & When It’s Your Turn were produced through the Minority Advisory Board of WPVI-TV 6, in Philadelphia, PA. Berry created the science fiction anthology series The Black Beyond, and his feature-length horror film EMBALMER is available on dvd. A 30-minute version of EMBALMER was a 1998 finalist in Showtime’s Black Filmmaker’s Short Film Showcase. In 2005, he spent a year in Belize, Central America, directing & editing Noh Matta Wat, Belize’s first dramatic television series, completing 4 seasons by 2010. Berry co-authored the film resource book, The 50 Most Influential Black Films (Citadel Press 2001). He has also written two fiction novels: Tears, based on his feature length screenplay addressing the roots of racism in America, and The Honeyman’s Son, a coming of age adventure set in the early 1940s.
Berry received his BA in Art/Photography from Arizona State University, and earned his MFA in Motion Picture Production from UCLA. He lives in Washington, DC.

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