Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads is a witty, gritty drama played out against the graffiti-covered concrete of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where the corner barbershop rivals the church as the center for the local Black community. Here the game is numbers and, from time to time, haircuts. Zachariah Homer, the shop's proprietor, fights an uphill, often uproarious battle to keep Joe's "clean." But the local kingpin, Lovejoy, who views the numbers racket as "the poor man's stock market," has other plans for Joe's in his portfolio. The thesis film of New York University Film School graduate (and Brooklyn native) Spike Lee, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads has been chosen for The Museum of Modern Art's New Directors/New Films series for 1983, Filmex '83 and the 1983 San Francisco International Film Festival.