Category: Upcoming Films

Release Date:  8/21/20 – 8/30/20;
American Black Film Festival (Virtual)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:  Josh Kidd
Studio(s):  Calm pictures, FineLight Films, Project Bootleg.
Running Time:  84 mins.
Cast:  Josh Kidd, Maria Mercedes Galuppo, Freddie Connor, Astante James.

Story:  British musician (Nathan) is forced to leave New York due to his visa expiration. In his final days, he meets and falls in love with Vanessa, who has just entered the U.S. and is trafficking drugs in hopes of giving her family in Venezuela a better life.  Afraid of being caught for illicit trade, she decides to flee from the cartel. As the two immigrants yearn to love freely, they are threatened with their lives and met with chaos at every point.  Nathan and Vanessa strive to escape a formidable sequence of events involving drug smuggling, deportation, and organized trafficking in New York.  Source(s):  abff.com/2020; IMDB.

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Release Date:  8/21/20 – 8/30/20; American Black Film Festival (Virtual)
Genre:  Romance
Rating:  NR
Director:  Otoja Abit
Studio(s):  Conglomerate Media, Willful Productions, MarVista Entertainment
Running Time:  88 mins.

Cast:  Nia Fairweather, Cooper Koch, Adriana DeMeo, Tyra Ferrell, Chris Noth.

Story:  As her Christmas Eve wedding draws near, Jennifer is visited by an angel and shown what could have been if she hadn’t denied her true feelings for her childhood best friend.  Source(s):  abff.com/2020; IMDB.

Release Date:  8/21/20 – 8/30/20; American Black Film Festival (Virtual)
Original Release – 2019
Genre:  Thriller
Rating:  NR
Director:  Chyna Robinson
Running Time:  99 mins.
Cast:  Lynn Andrews III, Eric Hanson, April Hartman, DeAna Davis

Story:  When two women are betrayed by their manipulative husbands, they begin plotting to find a way out.

Lines between romantic ideals and control become blurred when Tanya’s husband can no longer handle the stress of his career as a police officer. His warm kisses turn cold, and she is left fighting for her life. At the same time, Elizabeth’s idyllic life is marred when her charming husband manipulates her into believing that she is going insane. As Elizabeth counsels Tanya, she realizes the signs of abuse in her own marriage. When both women decide to leave, they realize it isn’t going to go as smoothly as they’d planned. The escape they seek, turns deadly.  Source(s):  abff.com/2020; IMDB.

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Release Date:  8/21/20 – 8/30/20;
American Black Film Festival (Virtual)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:  Derrick Perry
Studio(s):  Hot Buttered Content
Running Time:  90 mins.

Cast:  Elijah Boothe, Ruby Park, Chaim Dunbar, Daniel C, Jeremy Ford, Susan Elle, Aaron Dominguez, Chris Markle, Bill Miltenberger, Kris Kil, Milo Scott, Jenny Katrina.

Story:  While struggling to finish his thesis documentary, Travis Wolfe reconnects with his estranged uncle and navigates a budding romance against the wishes of his girlfriend’s older brother.

Travis Wolfe lives in a world all his own. He’s roaming the streets of Hollywood, struggling to finish his thesis documentary project for film school before he can graduate and start the next phase of life. After reconnecting with his estranged uncle Robin, a veteran television producer on the wrong side of his career, Travis attempts to unravel the mystery of his father’s suicide. A glimmer of hope is offered through his relationship with Kristen, a streetwise girl from Koreatown with big dreams of her own. As tensions begin to brew with her protective older brother, Bobby, and family secrets put his newly established connection with Robin to the test, Travis struggles to hold it all together long enough to figure out his future, as well as his past.  Source(s):  official site, pinkopaquefilm.com; abff.com/ 2020; IMDB.

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Release Date: 8/21/20 – 8/30/20
American Black Film Festival (Virtual)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:  Nick Cannon
Studio(s):  N’ Credible Entertainment, One Media Worldwide
Running Time:  97 mins.

Cast:  Nick Cannon, Brian “Birdman” Williams, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Brown, Evan Ross, DC Young Fly, Marla Gibbs, Faizon Love, Luenell, K.D. Aubert, Melody Rae, Jaliyah, Big Boy.

Story:   Avery Watts, a single father who lost his NBA dreams to gang violence, struggles to keep his family’s community center open amidst rising gentrification in his Inglewood community.

She Ball follows the love of the game through the struggles of Avery Watts, who enlists the baddest women’s streetball league in the city to help him save the embattled Inglewood Community Center, which he manages, all while trying to raise his seven- year old daughter. Source(s):  abff.com/2020; IMDB.

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