{"id":81904,"date":"2018-01-12T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/01\/12\/50-plus-2018-films-either-produced-directed-featuring-black-talent-prominent-roles-part-3\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:04:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:04:41","slug":"50-plus-2018-films-either-produced-directed-featuring-black-talent-prominent-roles-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/50-plus-2018-films-either-produced-directed-featuring-black-talent-prominent-roles-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Plus 2018 Films Either Produced, Directed By Or Featuring Black Talent In Prominent Roles Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

50 Plus 2018 Films Either Produced, Directed By Or Featuring Black Talent In Prominent Roles Part 3<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

January 12, 2018<\/p>\n

Back to Part 1<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Part 2<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The following are a list of films that are completed, with some slated to appear at festivals such as Sundance. If All goes well, a good majority of these films will be picked up a distributor and released this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry To Bother You<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Boots Riley
\nScreenwriter: Boots Riley
\nProducers: Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, Charles King, George Rush, Jonathan Duffy, Kelly Williams
\nStarring: Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Steven Yeun, Jermaine Fowler, Armie Hammer, Omari Hardwick<\/p>\n

Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield), a 30-something black telemarketer with self-esteem issues, discovers a magical selling power living inside of him. Suddenly he\u2019s rising up the ranks to the elite team of his company, which sells heinous products and services. The upswing in Cassius\u2019s career raises serious red flags with his brilliant girlfriend, Detroit (Tessa Thompson), a sign-twirling gallery artist who is secretly a part of a Banksy-style collective called Left Eye. But the unimaginable hits the fan when Cassius meets the company\u2019s cocaine-snorting, orgy-hosting, obnoxious, and relentlessly optimistic CEO, Steve Lift (Armie Hammer).<\/p>\n

A Boy, A Girl, A Dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Qasim Basir
\nScreenwriter: Qasim Basir
\nProducer: Datari Turner
\nStarring: Omari Hardwick, Meagan Good, Jay Ellis, Dijon Talton, Wesley Jonathan, and Kenya Barris<\/p>\n

Cass (Omari Hardwick), a handsome USC grad stalled in his career, is getting lost in the alcohol- and drug-infused world of LA club promotion. On the night of the 2016 presidential election, he meets Frida (Meagan Good), a beautiful, spirited midwestern visitor dealing with a difficult breakup. Their chemistry is undeniable. Nothing will ever be the same again.<\/p>\n

Yardie<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Idris Elba
\nScreenwriters: Brock Norman Brock and Martin Stellman
\nProducer: Gina Carter and Robin Gutch
\nStarring: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Cleary<\/p>\n

On a hot night in Kingston, Jamaica, 1973, Jerry Dread stops the music at an outdoor party to encourage a truce between warring gangs. His little brother Denis looks on from the crowd as an assassin’s bullet rings out, taking Jerry\u2019s life. A decade later, Denis is the right-hand man to gang boss Fox, who sends him on a loyalty-testing mission to London. But when the mission goes wrong, Denis hides out with an old flame and decides to find his brother\u2019s killer.<\/p>\n

Monster<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Anthony Mandler
\nScreenwriter: Radha Blank, Cole Wiley, Janece Shaffer
\nProducers: Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Aaron L. Gilbert, Mike Jackson, Edward Tyler Nahem
\nStarring: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson, Rakim Mayers, Jennifer Ehle, Tim Blake Nelson<\/p>\n

Steve Harmon, a bright, sensitive 17-year-old, stands trial for acting as a lookout during the lethal armed robbery of a Harlem bodega. Before his arrest, he was an honors student and aspiring filmmaker taking street-level snapshots and on-the-fly footage of neighborhood life. Now, Steve is seen as just another young black criminal, assumed guilty and labeled a monster. But Steve and his lawyer declare his innocence and attempt to defy the odds in a bid to win his freedom.<\/p>\n

Adapted from the award-winning young adult novel by Walter Dean Myers, Monster methodically details how an inquisitive outsider found himself inside of a system stacked against him.<\/p>\n

Monsters and Men<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Reinaldo Marcus Gree
\nScreenwriter: Reinaldo Marcus Green
\nProducers: Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Josh Penn, Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Luca Borghese
\nCast: John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chant\u00e9 Adams, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan<\/p>\n

One night, in front of a bodega in Brooklyn\u2019s Bed\u2013Stuy neighborhood, Manny Ortega witnesses a white police officer wrongfully gun down a neighborhood street hustler, and Manny films the incident on his phone. Now he\u2019s faced with a dilemma: release the video and bring unwanted exposure to himself and his family, or keep the video private and be complicit in the injustice?<\/p>\n

The film is told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.<\/p>\n

Come Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Joshua Marston
\nScreenwriter: Marcus Hinchey
\nProducers: Ira Glass, AlissaShipp, Julie Goldstein, James Stern, Lucas Smith, Cindy Kirven
\nStarring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Condola Rashad, Jason Segel, Lakeith Stanfield, Martin Sheen<\/p>\n

Every Sunday, Bishop Carlton Pearson\u2014evangelical megastar, brilliant orator, and television host with millions of followers\u2014preaches the fundamentalist gospel to six thousand supplicants at his Higher Dimensions Church. He\u2019s the pride and joy of his spiritual father, Oral Roberts, and the toast of Tulsa. One day, rattled by an uncle\u2019s suicide and distraught by reports of the Rwandan Genocide, Pearson receives an epiphany. Suddenly it\u2019s crystal clear\u2014God loves all humankind; everyone is already saved, whether Christian or not; and there is no hell. But these ideas are heretical, violating sacrosanct doctrines.<\/p>\n

Hearts Beat Loud<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Brett Haley
\nScreenwriters: Brett Haley, Marc Basch
\nProducers: Houston King, Sam Bisbee, Sam Slater
\nStarring: Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Ted Danson, Sasha Lane, Blythe Danner, Toni Collette<\/p>\n

As single dad Frank (Nick Offerman) prepares to send hardworking daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) off to UCLA pre-med, he also reluctantly realizes he has to accept that his own record-store business is failing. Hoping to stay connected with his daughter through their shared love of music, he urges her to turn their weekly \u201cjam sesh\u201d into an actual band. Channeling Sam\u2019s resistance into a band name, they unexpectedly find We\u2019re Not a Band\u2019s first song turning into a minor Spotify hit, and they use their songwriting efforts to work through their feelings about the life changes each of them faces<\/p>\n

Blindspotting<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada
\nScreenwriters: Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs
\nProducers: Keith Calder, Jess Calder, Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs
\nStarring: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones<\/p>\n

Collin is trying to make it through his final days of probation for an infamous arrest he can\u2019t wait to put behind him. Always by his side is his fast-talking childhood bestie, Miles, who has a knack for finding trouble. They grew up together in the notoriously rough Oakland, a.k.a. \u201cThe Town,\u201d which has become the new trendy place to live in the rapidly gentrifying Bay Area. But when Collin\u2019s chance for a fresh start is interrupted by a life-changing missed curfew, his friendship with Miles is forced out of its comfortable buddy-comedy existence, and the Bay boys are set on a spiraling collision course with each other.<\/p>\n

Where Hands Touch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Amma Asante
\nScreenwriter: Amma Asante
\nProducer: Charlie Hanson
\nStarring: Amnadla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston and Tom Sweet<\/p>\n

Fifteen-year-old Leyna (Stenberg), daughter of a white German mother and a black father, meets Lutz (MacKay), the son of a prominent SS officer, and a member of the Hitler Youth. \u201cThey fall helplessly in love, putting their lives at risk as all around them the persecution of Jews and those deemed \u2018non-pure\u2019 slowly unfolds,\u201d according to a statement. \u201cDoes their love stand a chance amidst violence and hatred?\u201d<\/p>\n

Cut Throat City<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: RZA
\nScreenwriter: P.G. Cuscheri
\nProducer: Elliott Michael Smith, Michael Mendelsohn, William Clevinger, Kyle Tekiela, Sean Lydiard, Film Wealth, and RZA
\nStarring: Terrence Howard, Wesley Snipes, Eiza Gonzalez, Tip \u2018T.I.\u2019 Harris, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Shameik Moore, Rob Morgan, Joel David Moore, Kat Graham, Isaiah Washington, Keean Johnson, & Denzel Whitake<\/p>\n

The film centers on four boyhood friends who return to New Orleans\u2019 Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.<\/p>\n

Sweetheart<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: JD Dillard
\nScreenwriter: JD Dillard, Alex Theurer and Alex Hyner
\nProducer: Blumhouse Productions
\nStarring: Kiersey Clemons and Emory Cohen<\/p>\n

No information as been given about the film other than it\u2019s being described as a survival-horror pic. The script is 68 pages. And it is purely an exercise in tone and terror.<\/p>\n

Farming<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
\nScreenwriter: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
\nProducers: Michael London, Janice Williams, Francois Ivernel, Charles de Rosen, Miranda Ballesteros, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
\nStarring: Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Damson Idris<\/p>\n

The film chronicles Akinnuoye-Agbaje\u2019s own coming-of-age story growing up fostered by a white working class family in the U.K. Idris, star of John Singelton\u2019s upcoming FX series \u201cSnowfall,\u201d will play the lead. Beckinsale will portray his foster mother, a stern, hard-loving, and, at times, self-serving woman. Mbatha-Raw portrays a benevolent teacher who offers him one last chance at redemption.<\/p>\n

Brian Banks<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Tom Shadyac
\nScreenwriter: Doug Atchison
\nProducer: Amy Baer, Shivani Rawat and Monica Levinson
\nStarring: Aldis Hodge, Greg Kinner, Dorian Missick, Sherri Shepherd, Tiffany Dupont, Matt Battaglia<\/p>\n

The biopic tells the story of Banks (Hodge), an All-American high school football player committed to USC by his junior year whose life was upended in 2002 when he was falsely accused of rape. Despite maintaining his innocence, Banks was railroaded through the system and sentenced to a decade of prison and parole.<\/p>\n

With the help of the California Innocence Project, spearheaded by Justin Brooks (Kinnear), the criminal defense attorney and CIP co-founder, Banks\u2019 conviction was overturned in 2012. He briefly played with the Atlanta Falcons in the 2013 preseason. Shepherd will portray Banks\u2019 mother, Leomia, who was the glue that kept Banks together during his trial. Also cast in the film are Dorian Missick, who will play an officer who treats Banks with contempt before he realizes he may have been railroaded. Tiffany Dupont will portray the role of Alissa Bjerkhoel, a junior lawyer at the California Innocence Project who, along with other associates, finds Brian\u2019s long, handwritten letter in the mailroom and becomes deeply committed to his cause.<\/p>\n

Fast Color<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Julia Hart
\nScreenwriter: Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz
\nProducer: Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon and Jordan Horowitz
\nStarring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Strathairn, Lorraine Toussaint, Saniyya Sidney and Christopher Denham<\/p>\n

Mbatha-Raw plays Ruth, a woman who is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Now, years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home. Toussaint will play Bo, Ruth\u2019s mother. Strathairn is Ellis, the sheriff of the small town where Ruth grew up. Sidney stars as Lila, Ruth\u2019s daughter, while Denham will portray Bill, leader of the rogue government organization determined to capture Ruth.<\/p>\n

A Girl From Mogadishu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Mary McGuckian
\nScreenwriter: Pembridge Pictures and Umedia
\nProducer: Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon and Jordan Horowitz
\nStarring: Aja Naomi King, Martha Cango Antonio, Barkhad Abdi, Maryam Mursals<\/p>\n

The female empowerment film is a true story based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who \u2014 having escaped war-torn Somalia \u2014 emerged as one of the world\u2019s foremost international activists against gender based violence.<\/p>\n

Ahmed was born into a refugee camp in Somalia in 2006 and emigrated to Ireland as a teenager. Recounting her traumatic childhood experiences of female genital mutilation when applying for refugee status, she is re-traumatized and vows to devote her life to the eradication of the practice \u2014 taking her campaign all the way to the President of Ireland and finally to the European Parliament and United Nations.<\/p>\n

Jinn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Nijla Mu’min
\nScreenwriter: Nijla Mu’min
\nProducer: Avril Speaks, Kady Kamakate, Nijla Mu’min
\nStarring: Zoe Renee, Simone Missick, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Hisham Tawfiq, Dorian Missick, Kelly Jenrette, Damien D. Smith<\/p>\n

Summer (Zoe Renee) is a carefree, black teenage Instagram celebrity whose world turns upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a Muslim classmate, crossing the thin line between physical desire and piety.<\/p>\n

Juanita<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Clark Johnson
\nScreenwriter: Roderick M. Spencer (Ms. Woodward\u2019s husband)
\nProducer: Stephanie Allain, Jason Michael Berman and Mel Jones
\nStarring: Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood, Adam Beach, LaTanya Richardson and Marcus Henderson<\/p>\n

Based on the novel \u201cDancing on the Edge of the Roof\u201d by Sheila Williams, Woodard will play Juanita, a hard-working nursemaid from Columbus, Ohio, whose grown kids still depend on her for everything. Underwood appears as himself as a fantasy in her dreams \u2014 and when he asks for a loan, she hops on a Greyhound Bus and heads into the mountains of Montana, where she reinvents herself with a new job, a new circle of friends, and an unexpected new love.<\/p>\n

Green Dolphin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Director: Chris Kenneally
\nScreenwriter: Chris Kenneally
\nProducer: Russell Geyser, Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Shruti Ganguly
\nStarring: Justine Skye, Tyler Dean Flores and Seann William Scott<\/p>\n

Green Dolphin follows 15-year-old Robinson (Flores) and 20-year-old Keesha (Skye) as they venture cross-country in an attempt to escape the grasp of abusive foster parent and drug-dealer Martin (Scott). When they break down midway, Keesha and Robinson discover a new family that could turn their lives around.<\/p>\n

R&B singer-songwriter Skye makes her feature debut with the project. Signed to Roc Nation Records, Skye most recently released the EP 8 Ounces and is currently working on her debut album.<\/p>\n

Back to Part 1<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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