Cane River Film Festival Pemon Rami Producer and Casting Director

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Pemon Rami is an international film producer, theatre director, arts administrator, historian, lecturer, and consultant who wields one of the most impressive film pedigrees in Chicago and beyond.

The features and TV programs that have relied on Rami’s casting direction expertise include Blues Brothers, Mahogany, Cooley High, The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Welcome To Success (the Marva Collins Story), and One In A Million.

Rami began his career in 1968 as Associate Director of the South Side Center for the Performing Arts. In 1971, he became director of the Kuumba Workshop, and from 1973 to 1979, he was Artistic / Managing Director of the Lamont Zeno Theatre. In 1987, Rami co-founded Mixed Media Productions, a company that produced independent theatrical, video, multi-image, and film projects.

Along the way, he served as Managing / Artistic Director for the Phoenix Black Theatre Troupe and General Manager for Marla Gibbs Crossroads National Education and Entertainment Complex in Los Angeles.

From 2011 to 2016, Mr. Rami was director of education and public programs for the DuSable Museum of African American History, and he co-executive produced Stories From The Soul, a weekly television series for the Black Family channel.

In 2012, Pemon produced the Warner Brothers Home Video feature film Of Boys and Men, starring Angela Bassett, Robert Townsend, and Victoria Rowell.

In 2016, he produced 93 Days a feature film starring Bimbo Akintola and Danny Glover shot in Lagos, Nigeria.

Based on actual events, 93 Days tells the story of the men and women who risked their lives to save the citizens of Nigeria — and people around the world — from the consequences of the outbreak of the highly dreaded Ebola Virus Disease.

Among the honours bestowed upon Mr. Rami are the Black Harvest Film Festival’s Deloris Jordan Award, the Chicago Defender’s 50 Men of Excellence Award, and City Council Proclamations from Detroit and Los Angeles.