At Kempsville High School, Alex Dickerson-Watson was the video guy who stole his mother’s point-and-shoot camera to record his friends making music.
Now, with a sophisticated camera and perspective, Dickerson, 35, is a filmmaker whose documentary-in-the-making, “The Video Guy,” traces the lives of five local African American men by going behind the scenes of their rap dreams.
“The Video Guy” received international recognition this summer as it won The Whickers Pitch, a film and TV funding award, presented by the Sheffield DocFest in England. It beat out more than 800 entries from 86 countries for funding that helps promising documentaries get off the ground…