Wendell B. Harris Jr. is an American independent filmmaker trained in drama at Interlochen and Juilliard. His family founded Prismatic Images, a multi-award-winning film/video/audio production facility in Flint, Michigan, in 1979.
Harris spent three years crisscrossing the United States in order to film and record interviews for a radio/video series entitled Black Biography, which showcased the lives of black icons from the spheres of art, history, and politics.
His first feature film, Chameleon Street, is a biting satire based on the life of Detroit-born William Douglas Street Jr. It won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1990. After three tumultuous years in Hollywood, Harris returned to Michigan and began to focus on the relationship between our minds, our media, and our military industrial complex. This endeavor led to the documentary Yeshua vs. Frankenstein in 3D.
Harris has appeared as an actor in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight (1998) and Todd Phillips’s Road Trip (2000).
Biography via Criterion.
