Mark Webber, "Explicit Ills": Meet the Filmmaker

Published: March 24, 2009, 10:33 p.m.

b'In "Explicit Ills", the actor-turned-director Mark Webber juggles four vignettes of addiction and damage in lower-depths Philadelphia. The story follows four inter-connecting lives revolving around love, drugs and poverty: Babo, an asthma ridden seven-year-old lives with his mother in the badlands of North Philly; his neighbor Demetri transforms himself into a well-read "smart" boy in order to get the girl; Michelle, a well-off art student is quick to fall into a drug induced love-affair with her dealer Jacob; and Kaleef and Jill\'s marriage is strained as they pursue their dreams of bringing "produce to the people" as their teenage son Heslin focuses on competing in the World\'s Strongest Man competition. "Explicit Ills" released in theater March 6, 2009.\\n \\nhttp://www.explicitillsthemovie.com/'