Darien
Sills-Evans
At twenty-six years
old, Mr. Sills-Evans has worked for the last five years in the industrial
video field directing and producing educational titles like "I Don't Have
A Problem: The Path To Addiction" and "Student Workshop: Building Character."
His acting work has included guest appearances in the television programs
"Law & Order," "New York Undercover," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,"
and most recently on NBC's "Third Watch." He also did a two year stint
on CBS's "Cosby."
Darien just completed
his first feature, X-Patriots, a film he wrote, produced, and directed.
X-Patriots is an erotic, romantic drama of two Black American artists
in their late twenties evaluating their lives in a place where no one looks
like them, Den Haag, Netherlands. The story weaves through intricate transitions
of the two main characters, Dexter (Sills-Evans) and Manny (Bobby Lyle),
while using the locations of the Netherlands as a canvas to symbolize their
displacement. Exploring issues of love versus romance, sex, ethnic fetishism,
friendship and betrwayal, X-Patriots is a unique story of the human
spirit and the journey of young men priming themselves for a new millennium.
X-Patriots
was named "Best Feature Drama" and a "Critic's Choice" at the Angelciti
Film Festival in Chicago (2001), and an official selection at the Boston
Film Festival, the Newark Black Film Festival, and the Sidewalk Film Festival.
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