Trailer To John Boyega’s Imperial DreamsPosted by Wilson Morales
January 20, 2016
A few years before he was became internationally known from his role as Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, actor John Boyega had a few films under his belt that was starting to get him attention. The first was the sci-fi alien film “Attack the Block,” and the second was the 2014 Sundance film “Imperial Dreams,” directed by Malik Vitthal, marking his feature debut.
Still looking for distribution, the film also stars Rotimi Akinosho, Keke Palmer, Glenn Plummer, De’Aundre Bonds, Sufe Bradshaw, Anika Noni Rose, Jernard Burks and Maximiliano Hernández.
Bambi wants to publish his credos and chronicles and start his career the way any other normal young writer would. For Bambi, however, normal is the quandary. “Normal” means returning to Watts, Los Angeles, after a 28-month jail stint to find his young son playing next to his strung-out grandmother. It’s normal for the patriarch of his family to offer Bambi pills, guns, and a drug-running job as a way to welcome him home. A normal visit from his cousin involves Bambi and son performing minor surgery to extract a bullet from his arm. Bambi meets this surreal, ghetto normal with equanimity, but he knows life can’t be “normal” like this for long.
The film would go to win the Best of NEXT Audience Award. Check out the trailer below.
