Chris Fuller is the writer and director of "Loren Cass," a 83-minute independent feature film shot in St. Petersburg, Florida, about the October 1996 St. Petersburg rebellions.

Fuller was 15 years old during the Fall 1996 rebellions, triggered by the October 24 police killing of 18 year old TyRon Lewis, who was shot through the windshield of his car at a traffic stop. Residents of predominatley African American South St. Petersburg burst forth in frustrations with police brutality and racism. In an interview, Fuller recounted that tension in school and on the streets enveloped him. As a result, he says, he began to write about it. [872]

Frank Craft produced the film with Fuller. Craft, then 23, told the St. Petersburg Times in 2006 that the film required eight years of work and was produced for less than [873]

The film showed in theatres after showings at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival in 2006. A showing at the Bradford International Film Festival is schedueled for 2007. [874]

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Movie will have its first local viewing (St. Petersburg Times)

See also

St. Petersburg

1996 St. Petersburg rebellions

TyRon Lewis

Independent film