ARRAY Releasing has announced the acquisition of the award-winning coming-of-age drama JEZEBEL, directed, written, co-starring and produced by Numa Perrier. Winner of Best Director and Best Narrative Feature at American Black Film Festival, the film follows 19-year-old Tiffany (Tiffany Tenille) as she navigates her dying mother’s financial struggles. By working as an internet fetish cam girl in the 90s, the young woman uses her fantasy world as an escape from her real-life circumstances.
The cast includes Tiffany Tenille, Numa Perrier, Stephen Barrington, Bobby Field, Brett Gelman, Rockwelle Dortch, Zoe Tyson, Dennis Jaffee, & Jessa Zarubica.
In the last days of her mother’s life, 19 year old Tiffany (Tiffany Tenille) crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment. In order to make ends meet, her older sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of internet fetish cam girls. Tiffany becomes popular as the only “live black model” at the new adult site and soon becomes too close to one of her frequent callers. Dynamics shift in the sister relationship as each woman explores and exploits their sexuality, using their created fantasy worlds as an escape from the realities of their challenging real life circumstances. This bizarre coming of age story depicts sisterhood in a most unusual way.
ARRAY Releasing will premiere JEZEBEL on Netflix on Thursday, January 16. January theatrical release dates for New York, LA and other select cities will be announced in the coming weeks.
Based on Perrier’s true-life experiences JEZEBEL marks the writer/director’s feature directorial debut, which made its world premiere at SXSW 2019. Perrier also won The Craig Brewer Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival.
“Numa Perrier’s directorial debut delivers a beautiful balance of poignancy and humor to reveal truths about women, family and sisterhood in a way we rarely witness,” said ARRAY President Tilane Jones. “Numa’s exploration of women’s relationships to their bodies, their inner life and their outer world is exciting to witness and we’re proud to amplify this new and exciting voice in cinema.”
ARRAY has acquired distribution rights in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The announcement was made by ARRAY founder Ava DuVernay.
The deal was negotiated by Gordon Bobb of Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Finkelstein & Lezcano on behalf of ARRAY and Stephen D. Barnes of Morris Yorn Barnes Levine Krintzman Rubenstein Kohner Endlich & Gellman handled negotiations for Perrier.
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