SUPER NATURAL EP 3 - TYSON BECKFORD

TYSON BECKFORD - FIRST BLACK MALE SUPERMODEL
SEMI-FINALIST BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL 2022
SEMI-FINALIST NEW ORLEANS FEATURE WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL 2022
It stars and is presented by Tyson Beckford, who also Narrates the Series along, with American fashion legend Bethann Hardison.
Tyson Beckford is a name almost synonymous with the male fashion industry today. But his early upbringing in Rochester and The Bronx in New York City was anything but glamorous.
It was surely American, but it was a far cry from the 'Ralph Lauren American Dream' that Tyson would later come to represent.
More than just breaking a few glass ceilings in his rise, he often had to fight for his very life.
He is noted as the first Jamaican-American male supermodel, also credited with opening the door for other men of colour to enter into the industry.
Tyson was born in The Bronx on the 19th December, 1970, and spent his early years under the snowstorms of Rochester, upstate New York City, . He was born to an Afro-Jamaican mother, Hillary Dixon Hall and a Panamanian father of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican descent, Lloyd Beckford. Even though most people consider him a black man, he is also one full quarter Chinese.
When Tyson was still a small child, soon after he was born, his mother Hilary took the family back to Jamaica, where they lived for seven years connecting a young Tyson to his Jamaican roots, before returning to New York City, before embarking on his stellar career as a Supermodel, actor and producer.
And for the very first time this film examines the issue of Race and Racism in the global fashion industry, and how a handful of courageous pioneers and agents for change have made a major impact on this influential industry. An industry that in many way defines what is considered to be beauty and worthwhile.
From ancient times, through the Renaissance and Middle Ages, through the Golden screen ages of Hollywood, right through to the modern evolution of the Supermodel in history. For global release in 2022.
Artists as far back as ancient times humankind has been fascinated with what was considered 'the ideal' in human form.
We travel in time through history, through the movements of the 60’s, the 70’s, the 80’s and 90’s, right up to the present day. To explore the changing notion of 'the ideal'.
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