The powerful and timely feature documentary film Don’t Be Nice, follows a New York City team of young African American, Afro-Hispanic, and queer slam poets as they fight to find the words to speak their truths to a nation awakening in Black Lives Matter protest and on the brink of a general election.
American Masters: How It Feels To Be Free, is an upcoming documentary film that tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier – challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process. The film, which is slated to premiere in early 2021 on PBS and on documentary Channel in Canada, features interviews and archival performances with all six women, as well as original conversations with contemporary artists influenced by them, including Alicia Keys, an executive producer on the project, Halle Berry, Lena Waithe, Meagan Good, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson and other luminaries, as well as family members, including Horne’s daughter Gail Lumet Buckley.
Melina Leon’s award-winning debut feature Song Without A Name about deep corruption in 1980’s Peru will premiere on film movement August 7th and in participating theaters around the country.
Vertical Entertainment will release actor John Leguizamo’s Critical Thinking, which he stars in alongside Rachel Bay Jones (Ben is Back, Dear Evan Hansen) and Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire, 12 Years A Slave). The film is Leguizamo’s feature directorial debut and set for release on VOD/Digital on September 4, 2020.
An official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, Entwined will open in virtual theaters August 28th, with an on demand release to follow on September 8th.
Ahead of the new documentary The Fight releasing nationwide on July 31st, Intercept Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed will moderate a conversation with the featured lawyers on civil rights in the Trump era.
Watch the first trailer for Kevin Smith’s horror anthology Killroy Was Here, centered around the phenomenon of the “Kilroy Was Here” graffiti. Releasing sometime in 2021.
The film adaptation of Julia Walton’s young adult novel of the same name, Words On Bathroom Walls, explores life and love through a young boy dealing with a mental health disorder. The film makes its nationwide theatrical release on August 7th.
