{"id":82604,"date":"2018-03-22T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/03\/22\/clip-to-nijla-mumins-jinn-featuring-zoe-renee-kelvin-harrison-jr\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:50:18","slug":"clip-to-nijla-mumins-jinn-featuring-zoe-renee-kelvin-harrison-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/clip-to-nijla-mumins-jinn-featuring-zoe-renee-kelvin-harrison-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip To Nijla Mu’min’s Jinn Featuring Zoe Renee, Kelvin Harrison\u200b, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

Clip To Nijla Mu’min’s Jinn Featuring Zoe Renee, Kelvin Harrison\u200b, Jr.\u200b<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

March 22, 2018<\/p>\n

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Deadline has posted a clip to the\u00a0upcoming drama\u200b, \u200bJinn, <\/strong>written and directed by Nijla Mu\u2019min<\/strong>\u200b, has been released online. The film had its World Premiere at the 2018\u00a0South by Southwest (SXSW)<\/strong> in Austin, Texas, where it won the Special Jury Recognition for Writing.<\/p>\n

The film stars Zoe Renee<\/strong> (\u200bT\u200bhe Quad) as Summer, Simone Missick<\/strong> (Luke Cage),\u00a0Hisham Tawfiq<\/strong> (\u200bThe\u200b Blacklist), Kelly Jenrette<\/strong> (\u200bGran\u200bdfathe\u200bred,\u200b \u200bPitch), Kelvin Harrison\u200b, Jr.<\/strong>\u200b, \u200b(It Comes At Night, Monster, and\u200b\u200b Mudbound), Damien D. Smith<\/strong> (The American Dream), and Dorian Missick<\/strong> (\u200bBig Word\u200bs, Monster).<\/p>\n

Summer (Zoe Renee) is a carefree, black teenage Instagram celebrity whose world turns upside down when her mother Jade (Missick) 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 (Harrison\u200b, Jr.), crossing the thin line between physical desire and piety.\u00a0The film is a timely, fresh look at identity, Islam, and first love in contemporary Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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Avril Z. Speaks<\/strong> of Sweet Potato Pie Productions is producing with Elton Brand, Mike C. Manning, \u200bSimone Missick<\/strong>, and Angela Harvey<\/strong>\u200b (\u200bTeen Wolf) serving as executive producers, and Morgan\u2019s Mark Productions serving as co-producers.<\/p>\n

Mu\u2019min, a Sundance Institute Fellow, will make her feature directorial debut with JINN. She pitched the film at the the Film Independent Fast Track Film Market, and was the recipient of a Panavision New Filmmaker Camera Package. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts (Calarts), and her short films have screened in festivals across the country. She was the winner of a 2014 Best Screenplay Award from BET for her script, NOOR.<\/p>\n