I'm Charlie Walker

[Available June 10 on various VOD platforms.] An uneven soundtrack hinders Patrick Gilles' wacky, factually based, humorous, unpredictable, 78-minute film in which ambitious, feisty, streetwise, cunning, wheeler-dealer, Black truck company owner Charlie Walker (Mike Colter), who has a wife (Safiya Fredericks) and three daughters, faces repossession of his home in San Francisco, applies for a lucrative contract to clean up an environmentally devastating crude oil spill after two oil tankers collided in 1971, is reluctantly awarded a beach nobody wanted to save, and when duplicitous, racist oil company executives (Dylan Baker and Mark Leslie Ford) initially support his ingenious scheme to clean up the beach, they turn against him because of racism, greed, politics, and financial shenanigans.
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