Solvan “Slick” Naim, whose current work includes a prominent position on Netflix’s “The Get Down,” got his professional start in filmmaking with Bushwick as his backdrop.
“Stanhope” a short film which won Best Film at the NBCUniversal Short Cuts Festival is about a young boy turned assassin who also happens to possess a powerful artistic gift. The charming protagonist named after the Bushwick street (played by Malik Lockett) tells an enthralling first person narrative of his life. For him, illegal activity bubbles just below the surface of a childhood equal parts horrifying and whimsical.
Slick cites a real life story on News 12 Brooklyn as the inspiration for the plot. It took only three months for the story to go from an idea of an opening sequence to a full-blown five day production.
