Innergalactic Films Presents
A Way to Be Free
After failing out of his first year of art school, Parker is driven to move his estranged father out of a crack house and share a studio apartment as they both pursue sobriety and find a way to be free.
Parker leaves Brooklyn for art school in Valencia, California, with his father Roland’s guitar strapped across his back and dreams of becoming the musician he knows he can be. After a decade of estrangement, he surprises Roland in South Central, LA, to find him deeply in the throes of alcohol and crack cocaine, haunted by the ghosts of John Coltrane and Billie Holiday.
Though he scores bigtime with his love interest, the trauma of seeing his father in squalor turns Parker to self-medicate with cannabis and blowing off his classes, spreading himself thin with a new love for capoeira and playing in his new hardcore band. Parker gets put on academic suspension and enrolls in community college, gets a job at a daycare/after school program and gets a studio apartment in Valencia.
Fearing for Roland’s life, Parker pulls him out of a crack house and into his apartment in the suburbs. Working at the daycare and continuing to smoke while his father struggles to stay sober, both inspire Parker to find sobriety. When an opportunity to play guitar with a jazz group comes for Roland, he falls off the wagon, only to get back on with greater focus. With Roland’s sobriety firmly rooted, he leaves for Charleston and Parker gets back on track in art school. Both find a way to be free.
Audition Scripts – A Way to Be Free
We are looking for local talent in the Los Angeles area and will be shooting in Los Angeles
Mr. SMITH
Afro Creole
Liquor store owner and neighborhood mayor. A stabilizing force who looks out for Roland. ‘A lot of good people have bad habits.’
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YOLANDA
AfrIcan American
Dance major, very strong willed, Parker’s love interest. Navigates complex relationships. 12 scenes.
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SEKOU
AfrIcan American
Poet, musician, raps about Khemet. Yolanda’s ex-boyfriend. Preaches about ‘decolonized’ relationships.
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TIFFANY
AfrIcan American
Aspiring singer, stuck, escapes with substances. Shares a complex, dangerous dynamic with Roland. 4 scenes.
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PARKER
African American
Guitarist, punk and jazz musician, Roland’s son. He is driven, artistic, but struggling with his own self-medication while trying to save his father.
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ROLAND
African American
Black Arts Movement writer and musician fallen to addiction. Haunted by ghosts of Coltrane and Billie Holiday. Struggling for redemption.
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CHARACTER'S LIST
A diverse ensemble of musicians, dancers, activists, and street-corner characters shapes this story’s world. The cast ranges from jazz legends and capoeira masters to struggling artists, students, hustlers, and a writer battling addiction. Their intersecting lives explore music, identity, rebellion, and healing across generations.
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LOG AND SYNOPSIS
A young musician leaves home for art school but becomes overwhelmed by new pressures, old wounds, and the discovery that his estranged father is trapped in addiction. After pulling his father from a crack house, the two share a small apartment and struggle toward sobriety together. Their parallel journeys explore healing, identity, and the hard path toward freedom.
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