Written and Directed by Princeton Holt
Cookies and Cream: Another way of life, other options, other ways of finding independence, financial security and a home life.
Maybe not the American dream home life but a life where shopping is not a financial drain and care of one's body is an art, not an option.
Being a sex worker in America is not quarented work on the fast track to success. But Cookies&Cream and Candy too(Carmen's very young daughter) is a tale where Carmen a young woman, headed for pre-law classes at a local New York, maybe Brooklyn high school, is intercepted by three men on the hunt for another victim, another young woman ripe for the picking.
Camen (Jace Nicole) is their new recruit, their fish plucked out of the mainstream of American life headed for the underground sex world, a successful woman hungered by men(and enjoyed by women) world wide.
A fighter in the real world, Carmen's promoters don't ask her height, her weight, her age. They want to know her roots, her ethnic origin but what does this answer mean? If she said, American Black, Puerto Rican, French, Africans what difference does this label make? "I'm all mixed up", she confesses.
Her parents made no sense to me and her daughter, Candy, was so sad. There is a constant theme of don't cry, don't feel what you really feel. Be false to yourself, be strong, cruel in the moment of potential tenderness.
Love is so thin, so tender that when Carmen walks away from an attempt at honest integrity with a man who seems to like her, not for her body alone but for her personality, her strength of mind and feeling, there is a moment when even I wanted to yell at the screen, cry , cry, cry for us all.
For inquiring minds, for people who might not want to go up on the Web to play voyeur to scenes from the money minded people who proliferate handsomely in the underworld of sex, this film will open your eyes and mind to what it is to be successful in the sex industry. What it means to fail can only be far worse.
This human tragedy unfolds with great acting and musical scores of serious excellence.
We need more films like Cookies & Cream.
One Way or Another Productions
WWW.Cookiesncreammovie.com
A web sight well worth viewing.
LindaZises
WBAI Women Collective
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