Burning Cane (2019)

NAME OF FILM: BURNING CANE

DIRECTOR(S): Phillip Youmans

STARRING: Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, Dominique McClellan, Braelyn Kelly.

GENRE: Drama Film

SYNOPSIS: Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with the love she has for her troubled son

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