Sweet Hands
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2010
Logline
At seventeen, Nisa Rodriguez was being celebrated as a promising boxer until an unexpected life change threw her dreams against the ropes.
Jason Perez
Director, Producer
Jason Perez got his first start in film production spending eight years working under director Spike Lee. Soon after, Lee appointed Perez to direct a pilot for client Turner Broadcasting under his advertisement agency Spike DDB. Perez was then commissioned to direct a documentary short of the first Arts Workshop at the Oprah Winfrey Leader Academy for Girls in South Africa, and went on to direct historical coverage of her Obama for America fundraiser.
Mike Ellis
Producer
Mike Ellis has worked on numerous films with Spike Lee including Crooklyn, Summer of Sam, and Inside Man. He has also produced the films Jim Brown: All American, and The Perfect Age of Rock n Roll.
Daniel Patterson
Director of Photography
A graduate of Morehouse College, with a B.A. in Theater, Daniel Patterson received his first film internship on Spike Lee’s film 25th Hour. Soon after, he began attending New York University as a student in the Graduate Film Program. While at NYU, Daniel has been the cinematographer on over 20 short films, including awarding winning films Stutter, Surface of Things, Testify, and Midway which collectively, have gone to screen at Palms Springs Festival of Shorts, Chicago International Film Festival, Cinequest, Cleveland, American Black Film Festival, and AFI Dallas to name a few. Outside of NYU, Daniel was a paid camera assistant on Spike Lee’s Sucker Free City and 2006’s box office hit Inside Man.
Currently, Daniel Patterson is shooting two feature length documentaries, Generation Crack directed by Andre Wilkins, and Evolution of a Criminal directed by Darius Clark Monroe.