Garland McLaurin

Movies

Pops: La Guardia Adjusts to Fatherhood
Director
La Guardia Cross, a filmmaker and a rapper who once opened up for KRS-One, chronicles his journey to fatherhood. He talks to his baby daughter, who may or may not understand him, while capturing her growth and evolving personality. He also documents his true partnership with wife Leah, whom confides about her battles with depression. But together this new family is learning what parenthood is all about.
The New Black
Camera Operator
The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community's institutional pillar-the black church and reveals the Christian right wing's strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda. The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets and provides a seat at the kitchen table as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.