Documentary Synopsis:
Broadly stated, Meeting David Wilson is a documentary about the legacy of slavery and the pursuit of racial reconciliation. But what does that really mean? Documentaries about black identity have been made before and they will be made again, but what makes this film unique is that the narrative does not rely on the opacity of racial reconciliation as a concept. Instead, this documentary pins an actual face to the history of racial struggle — not the face of a moribund loser but of a successful black American eager to understand his family’s chattel past.
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What is most important about this film — indeed, its resounding mission — is that David Wilson, our film’s hero, is not only going to tell a story that’s true and meaningful to the black community at large but he is going to do it in a language that America can understand! He is the accessible, funny, irreverent, biting, representin’ force that makes this film palatable to a young generation of black youth that would probably never watch a documentary. The aim here is not to make an obscure oeuvre for the educated urban elite; this is no art-house cinema. Of course, the socially conscious theme of Meeting David Wilson appeals to mainstream, white audiences as well. The goal is to make a film for those people who are struggling against a cycle of downward mobility and institutional failure, and also to bring insight and clarity to a broader audience on the other side of the racial divide.
David Wilson, the go-getter producer and hard-hitting journalist; David Wilson, the Newark street-wise huckster. David Wilson is not only dealing with his own past but dealing with the gap he personally represents between the black urban ghetto and the white bourgeois elite. He reflects both the depths of black poverty and the possibility that this community engenders — a community that struggles with itself just as it does with the institutional forces that encourage its failure. David Wilson, as documentary subject and director, can create a bridge between the documentarian’s desire to be educational and entertaining.
To this end, Meeting David Wilson will address hot-button issues of importance to black Americans: the economics of the African-American community, its potential for social mobility, reparations, and institutional mechanisms that hinder success in the work force. Academic elites will provide commentary, but so too will comedians like Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. The analysis will be thorough, but the presentation will entertain.
Besides arming ourselves with a riveting subject, the remainder of this proposal will detail ways in which the film’s style will draw in the Friday and Barber Shop audiences. We are not out to make an NPR-friendly work whose academic overtones will actively turn young audiences away — no, no! We are out to make a work that incorporates hip-hop, that captures contemporary urban realities, that moves and shakes with the pizzazz of its subject and, in no short order, captures the attention of the most at-risk black Americans while at the same time enthralling white audiences.
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