Rainforest Films [SEP] inception
Rainforest Films
Rainforest Films was a film production company founded in 1994 by Rob Hardy and Will Packer that produced films geared towards African-Americans.
History.
With fraternity brothers William Packer and Gregory Anderson producing, Rob Hardy wrote and directed "Chocolate City", a $20,000 film that Blockbuster distributed through its video stores. The film about a young man's profound experience on a black college campus, was shot using 16mm color film on the campus of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. In 1994
existed before the genre's inception. Rainforest adventure films were often found popular in cinema (such as with the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and 1940s starring Johnny Weissmuller). Some of these films even included primitive, and in some cases, alleged cannibal tribes, and could be seen as the prototype for the modern cannibal film. One movie that can almost be definitively linked as the predecessor to the cannibal genre is Cornel Wilde's 1965 film "The Naked Prey", which involved a white man being chased by a tribe