Trailer & Poster To Nijla Mu’min’s Coming-of-Age Film JinnPosted by Wilson Morales
October 1, 2018
Orion Classics has release the trailer to the upcoming drama JINN. Written and directed by Nijla Mu’min (Dream), the film stars Zoe Renee (BET’s The Quad), Simone Missick (Netflix’s The Defenders), Kelvin Harrison, Jr. (Monsters and Men, Luce), Dorian Missick (Lucky Number Slevin), Hisham Tawfiq (NBC’s The Blacklist), Damien D. Smith (The Smile Man) and Kelly Jenrette (Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale).
JINN made its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Award for writing. The film also won awards at the American Black Film Festival for Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Zoe Renee), the Blackstar Film Festival for Best Feature Narrative and Audience Award and at the Roxbury Film Festival for Best Narrative Feature.
Orion Classics will release the drama in theaters on November 15th and on VOD and Digital HD on November 16th.
JINN was produced by Sweet Potato Pie Production’s Avril Z. Speaks (Sophisticated Romance), Morgan’s Mark Production’s Maya Emelle (Solace) and Arielle Saturne (Wild Oats) and was executive produced by Elton Brand (All Eyez on Me), Angela Harvey (ABC’s Station 19), Jason Kampf (BIT X BIT: In Bitcoin We Trust), Mike C. Manning (ABC’s Six Degrees of Separation), Shandra L. McDonald (A Cross to Bear, The Last Adam), Amy McGary (Fist Fight, The Terminator), Kristen McGary (Driving Miss Daisy) and Confluential Films’ Billy Mulligan (Own’s Black Love, Jonathan) and Tommy Oliver (Own’s Black Love).
In JINN, Summer (Renee) is a 17-year-old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings (Simone Missick), abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity.
