ARRAY Releasing, the distribution arm of Ava DuVernay’s Peabody Award-winning narrative change collective, will release two new feature films Donkeyhead and Definition Please. The films comes from emerging South Asian female directors Agam Darshi and Sujata Day. ARRAY will release both films in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, with the additional territory of Canada for Definition Please, and will debut both films on January 21st on Netflix.
Donkeyhead, a term of endearment used by Punjabi parents towards their children, stars its writer/director Darshi as “Mona,” a failed writer who carves out a life of isolation while caring for her ailing Sikh father. When he suffers a debilitating stroke, her three successful siblings show up on her doorstep determined to take control of the situation. Donkeyhead stars Darshi, Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy), Sandy Sidhu (Nurses, Legends of Tomorrow), Stephen Lobo (Arrow), Huse Madhavji (Schitt’s Creek), Marvin Ishmael (Degrassi: The Next Generation), and Balinder Johal (Beeba Boys)
Darshi was most recently seen in Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age film Funny Boy and can next be seen in Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Ava DuVernay’s upcoming HBO Max series DMZ.
Definition Please follows, Monica (Sujata Day), a former Scribbs Spelling Bee champion who must reconcile with her estranged brother when he returns home to help care for their sick mother.
Definition Please, starring, written, produced and directed by Day, also features Ritesh Rajan (Russian Doll, Jungle Book), Anna Khaja (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Jake Choi (Single Parents), Lalaine (Lizzie McGuire), with LeVar Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow), and introducing Maya Kapoor.
Day’s roles as an actress include Issa Rae’s web series The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl and HBO’s Insecure. Day is a Sundance Lab fellow and Sundance Collab advisor, directed and produced the popular web series This Is My Story, where LeVar Burton narrates real-life personal experiences of everyday racism.
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