About

YEAR 2014

SECTION Shorts Program Films Presented by YouTube

COUNTRY U.S.A.

RUN TIME 5 min

mulignan(s) /moo.lin.yan(s)/ n. 1. Italian-American slang for a black man. Derived from Italian dialect word for "eggplant." See also: moolie. Source: Urban Dictionary and pretty much every mob movie ever.

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EMAIL shaka.king@gmail.com

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Artist Bio

Shaka King is a writer, director, and producer. Newlyweeds, his first feature, was developed at New York University’s Graduate Film Department, where King received his MFA in 2013. Later that year, the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and enjoyed a three-week run at New York’s Film Forum. The bittersweet comedy garnered the director the 2014 Independent Spirit Someone to Watch Award. King is a native and resident of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.