Story ARC develops original work in fiction, film, and music. We build stories that are honest about power, rooted in American history, and made to last.
Andrew Robert Colom · Writer · Producer · Filmmaker · Founder
Featured Film · Available Now
One Sweet Night
IMDb 8.2 · J.D. Williams of The Wire · 2020
1920s Detroit. Dr. Ossian Sweet trapped in his new home by a violent mob — the night that ignited one of the first fights against housing segregation in America. Defended by Clarence Darrow.
Short narrative films built to last. Stories from the forgotten corners of American history, told with craft and care. Sold directly — no streaming, no middleman.
One Sweet Night
Directed by Daniel Pfeffer · Story ARC · 2020 · IMDb 8.2
1920s Detroit. Dr. Ossian Sweet and his wife Gladys are spending their second night in a new home on an all-white street. Trapped inside by a violent mob, the family fractures over how to survive a night of racial terror — igniting one of the first fights against housing segregation in American history. Starring J.D. Williams of The Wire. Defended by Clarence Darrow.
The written work of Andrew Robert Colom — a novel, a Substack, and an ongoing series of flash-fiction battles.
What is Rap Fiction?
A genre Andrew Robert Colom invented. The truth-telling of rap applied to literary prose. I’m not a rapper — I could never rap on beat. I invented Rap Fiction because I hear rap in my fiction. The rhythm was already in the prose. I just named what I heard.
EBTF — The Novel
The first Rap Fiction novel · Currently in submission
#1 on The BlackList’s all-time fiction charts. 1990s Mississippi. The Seven Greats as a Greek chorus. Coming.
Rap Fiction — Substack
rapfiction.substack.com
Prose poems, flash fiction, flash-fiction battles, and the road to the first Rap Fiction novel. New work every week.
Andrew Robert Colom is a writer, producer, and filmmaker. He is the founder of Story ARC, a creative development company building original work in fiction, film, and music.
Born and raised in Columbus, MS, the son of a civil rights lawyer and a judge. He received a full merit scholarship from The New York Times to pursue an MFA at NYU, where he studied with E.L. Doctorow and Jayne Anne Phillips.
His short film The Flight of Calvin Waters won the Ron Beard Award at the Magnolia Film Festival. One Sweet Night (2020), starring J.D. Williams of The Wire, holds an IMDb 8.2. He co-founded Century Partners in 2014, a multimillion-dollar development company reshaping the Rust Belt.
He invented Rap Fiction, a literary genre applying the truth-telling of rap to prose. His first Rap Fiction novel is currently in submission. He produces original music and is building a stage musical based on his father Wilbur Colom’s life in the Mississippi civil rights movement.
