John L. Demps Jr.

Movies

Playin' for Love
Director of Photography
Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But that’s about to change when he meets, Talisa McCoy (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), the mother of a star player, new to Jackson high. She’s a beautiful, strong-willed single mom, with her own ideas on a winning team…and the perfect man. Now, this coach will have to learn a few new plays if he’s going to stay in the game.
A Place in the Stars
Cinematography
A young lawyer gets a case he believes will make him rich. In the process he encounters dangerous men willing to kill to protect a fake and adulterated medical drugs trade worth billions in Nigeria. The outcome helps him come to terms with his life and resolve the clash of values he has had with his father all along.
Being Mrs Elliot
Director of Photography
When a scorned wife from the city shares a cab with a troubled villager, a fiery accident forces them to live out each other's lives.
The Lost Number
Cinematography
After going renegade on a Foray, Kathleen an English woman goes down south to Ngara Town. Seeking redemption, Kathleen saves Ngara Town and becomes her new hero. But when Diwani (point man of the Foray) comes to Ngara to retrieve from Kathleen what belongs to the Foray, Kathleen must go against the odds to save Ngara from Diwani and a Foray striking for the very soul of Ngara Town.
42 One Dream Rush
Director of Photography
An omnibus of 42 short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Cinematography
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.
Constellation
Director of Photography
Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
Phat Girlz
Cinematography
Two large women struggle to find love and acceptance in a culture where thin is in. Their lives take a dramatic turn when they meet the men of their dreams in completely unexpected ways.
Warming by the Devil's Fire
Cinematography
Director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding, To Sleep with Anger) presents a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family in Mississippi in the 1950s, and intergenerational tensions between the heavenly strains of gospel and the devilish moans of the blues.
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Director of Photography
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual execution of 55 rebels and the retribution lynching of more than 200 innocent slaves. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property examines how the story of Turner’s revolt has been interpreted throughout history and how it continues to raise new questions about the nature of terrorism and other forms of violent resistance to oppression. The film adopts an innovative structure by interspersing documentary footage and interviews with dramatizations of these different versions of Turner’s story. A unique collaboration between MacArthur Genius Award feature director Charles Burnett, acclaimed historian of slavery Kenneth S. Greenberg and Academy Award-nominated documentary producer Frank Christopher, Nat Turner is a compelling look at one of history’s most mysterious figures.
The Visit
Cinematography
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Finding Buck McHenry
Director of Photography
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
The Annihilation of Fish
Director of Photography
A woman who believes a dead composer is in love with her falls in love with a man who constantly fights an imaginary man named Hank.
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Director of Photography
A cop and his expensive fiancée, a bank teller, plan the perfect bank robbery. All goes well until the FBI suspects, almost immediately, an inside job
Clubland
Director of Photography
Kennedy is a rebellious, young musician who believes that talent and determination are all it takes to be a success. But as he and his loyal bandmates learn, success carries a heavy price .
The Three Lives of Karen
Director of Photography
An engaged woman has flashbacks of previous identities and a past she cannot recall.
The Babysitter's Seduction
Director of Photography
The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually "seduced" by the father.
The Walking Dead
Director of Photography
Five young marines on a suicide mission in Vietnam, struggle for survival in a jungle minefield. The mean streets of home did not prepare them for this.
Fear of a Black Hat
Director of Photography
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a clueless bunch of would-be rappers, Ice Cold, Tone-Def & Tasty Taste performing as N.W.H.
The Inkwell
Director of Photography
The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
Street Wars
Director of Photography
A young man takes over as the head of a crack dealing outfit after his brother, the gang's leader, is murdered.
The Three Muscatels
Director of Photography
Donna Bon Viant (Belaine) is a college student, who has to complete an assignment on the 14th century for her African American literature class. She chooses to base her writings on The Three Musketeers, a famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Donna begins to read the novel and falls asleep in the process. She dreams a zany dream involving the adventures of "The Three Muscatels". The adventures include a number of people in Donna's life including students in her class, members of her family, and an alcoholic she met earlier in the day named Russell (Pryor).