Compensation is a 1999 independent drama film produced, co-edited and directed by Zeinabu irene Davis and written by Marc Arthur Chéry. The film is about two parallel love stories set in turn-of-the-century and present-day Chicago, with both stories concerning a relationship between a deaf woman and a hearing man. The story is inspired by the 1906 poem of the same name from early African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar. The film stars Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks in the leading roles. The early part of the story is shot like a silent film. Though the film was not released until 1999, filming took place in 1993.
Compensation (1999)
Directed by Zeinabu irene Davis
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2000 Sundance Film Festival, California, Chicago, Dramatic Feature, Film Market, Ifp, Independent Film, Irene Davis, John Earl Jelks, Los Angeles, Museum Of Photographic Arts, New York, Pan African Film Festival, San Diego, The Independent On Sunday, Zeinabu
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