“The Black Sea”, interview with directors Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden and actor Irmena Chichikova

Crystal Moselle brings her latest feature "The Black Sea",  co-directed by the film’s star Derrick B. Harden, in competition at the 42° Torino Film Festival. After the documentary "Wolfpack" which won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance in 2015 and her coming-of-age "Skate Kitchen", Moselle joined forces with actor, director and rapper Derrick B. Harden for this film.  In this unscripted feature, Harden plays Khalid, a barista who leaves Brooklyn for this dream woman he plans to meet and start a new life only to find out, once landed in Sozopol and with his passport and luggage stolen, that he was a cat-fishing victim.  With the help of Ina, played by Bulgarian actress Irmena Chichikova, Khalid slowly finds his place in that little world  and maybe his “Bulgarian dream”.  Harden and Moselle describe the genesis of the film, their work together on a film they developed while shooting, without a script.  When talking about the film being about the right for everybody to dream, Derrick B. Harden agrees and adds: “This film is about dreaming and the whole project is a dream for everybody involved”.