Story. People. Collaboration.
"There are more than seven billion people on the planet. Seven billion stories...
I want to tell as many of those stories as possible."
Darryl Wharton-Rigby
A Global Production Company
Story. It is the foundation of how we communicate. In our interactive multimedia world, stories surround us everyday. These stories examine and explore the human experience on a global scale.
Filmsnoir Motion Pictures is an international production company. We focus on story. We produce and create feature films, shorts, music videos, documentaries, commercials, and visual content for a variety of brands and advertisers. We believe that collaboration is the key to success.
Our personal touch allows for integration onto a project at any stage of the process. We can accommodate clients big and small and look forward to telling your story.
WORK
Latest Music Video by Darryl Wharton-Rigby inspired by Pharrell William’s Entrepreneur. This is the Japan Edition. It captures and highlights prominent creatives and business people as well as shines a light on some of the younger and more unique professionals that have recently made Japan home. The video has even received love from Pharrell himself on Twitter and Instagram.
POLARIS
POLARIS
An American chef travels to Japan and struggles to fulfill his father’s final wish. Despite cultural and language barriers, he meets a Japanese woman who helps him on his journey and together they learn that destiny is a choice.
Polaris will be the third feature film, by Darryl Wharton-Rigby. The story is about Chef Noah Henson chooses to embark on a journey to fulfill his father’s final wish - which involves a castle at a zoo in Japan, after he loses his sense of taste.
Once in Japan, Noah quickly learns that it is nothing what he expected. While in Tokyo, Noah meets Saori. Together they search for the mysterious castle. Noah and Saori quickly becomes friends and grow closer. Traveling to her hometown, Noah comes to see life and the world differently and learns not only more about Japan, but also that destiny is a choice.
STAY
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Stay is a bittersweet love story about redemption. It is the second feature film of writer/director Darryl Wharton-Rigby.
The story is about a troubled salaryman who fights to remain sober. He meets and spends a weekend with a young woman, who brings hope into his life, but she cannot stay.
Detention
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Detention is the debut feature film written, directed, and produced by Darryl Wharton-Rigby under Filmsnoir. Detention screened at festival around the world and earned awards from the Urbanworld Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, and National Black Programming Consortium.
The story is about a teacher who brings together five students on a Friday afternoon to help them to realize their potential. The film has been called an “urban” Breakfast Club.
Darryl Wharton-Rigby
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Darryl Wharton-Rigby has been a jack of all trades and has worked diligently to be a master of one – filmmaking.
Darryl’s journey has had twists and turns as he navigated from Charm City to the land of the rising sun. Currently, two is a number that follows him like a lost puppy. He’s written for two NBC television shows, Homicide: Life On The Street and Just Deal; has two feature films under his belt, Detention and Stay (the second African-American to make feature films in Baltimore and Japan); and two one man plays, FreeDa Slave: Mask of a Diva and Here Come The Drums. The latter starred Russell Hornsby and earned eight NAACP Theatre Award nominations. Even eight can be divided by two.
Darryl is an international storyteller who explores the human experience and builds cultural bridges. He is passionate about human and equal rights, LGBTQ issues, immigration, and those who are disenfranchised. Lately much of his writing features Black faces in international spaces. Via his work, he’d like to create a level playing field.
Over the years he has been a lifeguard, cancer research tech, men’s clothing salesman, and stonemason apprentice. He once drove across the United States in fifty-seven hours, on a diet of bananas, water, and Red Bulls, while only listening to the music of Prince, without repeating a song. And, in Japan, he is featured as the DJ in the hit AKB48 music video, Koi Suru Fortune Cookie, which has more than 215 million views on YouTube and doesn’t get recognized.
Darryl lives in Saitama, Japan and credits his wife and three wonderful children as his ultimate muse.
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