Kofi Siriboe Lands Lead Role In Director Angel Kristi Williams’ Feature Debut ‘Really Love’ For MACROPosted by Wilson Morales
July 18, 2018
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Queen Sugar’s Kofi Siriboe is set for the lead role in the film Really Love, which is being helmed by first-time feature director Angel Kristi Williams, who also co-wrote the script with Felicia A. Pride.
The plot is set in a gentrifying Washington D.C. and follows a rising black painter (Siriboe) who tries to break into the competitive art world while balancing a whirlwind romance he never expected.
The story is by Pride and Sanford Grimes. Charles D. King’s MACRO, the production company behind the Oscar-nominated film, Fences, is financing and producing the film, which was brought to the company by producer Mel Jones (Dear White People, Burning Sands).
Jones, King, Kim Roth, and Aaliyah Williams are producing the pic, which is slated to begin filming this summer in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. MACRO’s Poppy Hanks, Latisha Fortune, Sanford Grimes, Stephanie Allain, Kim Coleman, and Pride will serve as exec producers.
Siriboe, who can currently be seen in Season 3 of Queen Sugar, was most recently seen on the big screen in Universal’s blockbuster pic, Girl’s Trip. Williams, who was a winner of the Sony Pictures Diversity Fellowship, directed the short films Greenspan: Indie and Charlotte.
