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SELMA<\/strong>
\n\"Selma<\/a><\/p>\n

RELEASE DATE: December 25, 2014, (limited; wide: January 9)
\nDISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures
\nDIRECTOR: Ava DuVernay
\nPRODUCERS: Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Oprah Winfrey
\nSCREENWRITER: Paul Webb
\nCINEMATOGRAPHER: Bradford Young
\nEDITOR: Spencer Averick
\nCOSTUME DESIGNER: Ruth E. Carter
\nCAST: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi, Common, Carmen Ejogo, Lorraine Toussaint, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey, Stephan James, Andre Holland, Tessa Thompson, Omar Dorsey, Colman Domingo, Wendell Pierce, Corey Reynolds, E. Roger-Mitchell, Ruben Staniago-Hudson, Trai Byers, Lakeith Stanfield, Henry G. Sanders, Charity Jordan, John Lavelle, Stan Houston, David Dwyer, Kent Falcoun, Niecy Nash, Stephen Root, Martin Sheen, Nigel Thatch, Dylan Baker
\nGENRE: Drama, Biography
\nOFFICIAL WEBSITE:\u00a0Selmamovie.com<\/a>| Facebook<\/a>| Twitter<\/a>| Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n

“Selma” is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.<\/p>\n

\"Selma<\/a><\/p>\n

The film stars\u00a0David Oyelowo<\/strong>\u00a0as Martin Luther King Jr.,\u00a0Tom Wilkinson<\/strong>\u00a0as Lyndon Baines Johnson,\u00a0Carmen Ejogo<\/strong>\u00a0as Coretta Scott King,\u00a0Andre Holland<\/strong>\u00a0as Andrew Young,\u00a0Omar J. Dorsey\u00a0<\/strong>as James Orange,\u00a0Alessandro Nivola<\/strong>\u00a0as John Doar,\u00a0Dylan Baker\u00a0<\/strong>as J. Edgar Hoover,\u00a0Giovanni Ribisi\u00a0<\/strong>as Lee White,\u00a0Common<\/strong>\u00a0as James Bevel,\u00a0Tessa Thompson<\/strong>\u00a0as Diane Nash,\u00a0Colman Domingo<\/strong>\u00a0as Ralph Abernathy,\u00a0Stephen Root\u00a0<\/strong>as Al Lingo,\u00a0Jeremy Strong\u00a0<\/strong>as James Reeb, with\u00a0Tim Roth\u00a0<\/strong>as George Wallace, and\u00a0Oprah Winfrey\u00a0<\/strong>as Annie Lee Cooper.<\/p>\n