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Farewell Amor

Release Date:   12/11/20; MUBI (Original Release – 1/25/20 – Sundance Film Festival)
Genre:   Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:   Ekwa Msangi
Studio(s):   Outrageous Pictures, Park Pictures, Department of Motion Pictures, Jhumka Films, Lucky 13 Productions, MACRO, MUBI, Outrageous Pictures, Wavelength Productions, IFC Films, Netflix.
Running Time:  95 mins.
Cast:   Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Joie Lee, Marcus Scribner, Nana Mensah.

Story:   It’s been 17 years since Walter was forced to leave his family in Angola. Now he is picking up his wife, Esther, and daughter, Sylvia, from the airport to bring them home to his one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment. The reunion isn’t seamless. Walter cooks a welcome dinner, and Esther wonders who taught him how to cook. Before they eat, Esther says grace, revealing her thunderous new passion for Jesus. And later, Walter realizes that he has not moved on from Linda, his lover who moved out of his apartment to make way for the family. When young Sylvia starts to explore the city and takes part in a dance competition, she unexpectedly opens up a pathway of muscle memory for the family to rediscover one another.  Source:  Sundance.org.

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The Forty-Year-Old Version

Release Date: 10/9/20; Netflix (Original Release- 1/25/20 – Sundance Film Festival)
Genre:   Comedy
Rating:  NR
Black & White
Director:  Radha Blank
Studio(s):   Hillman Grad
Running Time:  129 mins.
Cast:   Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Reed Birney, Imani Lewis, T.J. Atoms

Story:    Radha, a once-promising playwright, is barreling toward the stigma of being single and a struggling artist at the age of 40. Facing nonstop rejections from the theatre community while teaching a motley group of teens, she becomes creatively re-invigorated when she returns to rapping, her long-forgotten passion.  When her play finally gets going, however, she puts recording a rap demo on the back burner and must navigate the awful tension of compromising her voice for career success.  Source:  Sundance.org.

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Zola

Release Date:  6/30/21; In Theaters (Original Release: 1/24/20 – Sundance Film Festival)
Genre:   Drama
Rating:   R
Director:   Janicza Bravo
Studio(s):   Killer Films, Gigi Films, Ramona Films, A24.
Running Time:   90 mins.
Cast:   Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, Colman Domingo

Story:  “You wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”  Zola meets Jessica at a restaurant where Zola waitresses, and the two immediately click over pole dancing. Only a day after they exchange numbers, Jessica invites Zola on a cross-country road trip, where the goal is to make as much money as possible dancing in Florida strip clubs. Zola agrees, and suddenly she is trapped in the craziest, most unexpected trip of her life.  Source:  Sundance.org.

 

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Miss Juneteenth

 

Release Date:   6/19/2020; Digital Release (Original Release – 1/30/20; Sundance Film Festival)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:   NR
Director:  Channing Godfrey Peoples
Studio:   Sailor Bear
Running Time:  103 mins.

Cast:   Nicole Beharie, Kendrick Sampson, Alexis Chikaeze, Lori Hayes, Marcus Maudlin.

Details:   Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Miss Juneteenth, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and later won an award at SXSW. The feature is aiming for a June 19 release, that date marking the 155th anniversary of the Juneteenth holiday.

Story:  Built like a bird, Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen—she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, a title commemorating the day slavery was abolished in Texas. Life didn’t turn out as beautifully as the title promised, but Turquoise, determined to right her wrongs, is cultivating her daughter, Kai, to become Miss Juneteenth, even if Kai wants something else.  Source(s):  Deadline; Sundance.org.

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Saved By Grace

Release Date:   1/21/20; DVD
Genre:   Inspirational
Rating:  NR
Director:  Nancy Bellany
Studio(s):   Jayna Entertainment, Maverick
Running Time:  70 mins.

Cast:   Nancy Bellany is a stand-up comedian/writer/director/producer/actor known for Pastor Jones: Preachin’ to the Choir (2009), Da’ Booty Shop (2009), various shows like Southland, American Horror Story and over 40 national commercials.

Story:   After being fired from her job, Grace Hightower applies for a position to work at the local church. Full of insecurity and self-doubt, her faith is tested when the church unexpectedly goes into foreclosure, forcing her to find the courage to save it.  Source:  Maverick Entertainment.

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Home Of The Brave

Release Date:   1/14/20; DVD (Original Release – 2019)
Genre:   Drama
Rating:   NR
Director:  Deon Gibson
Studio(s):   Maverick Entertainment
Running Time:  104 mins.
Cast:   Kibwe Dorsey, Marc De Stefano, Andrew Dozier, Shellita Boxie

Story:   The lives of two young men collide in an unexpected way. A young war veteran returns home eager to rejoin his brother and two close friends at the after-school program they started to help kids in their community. While working to make their dreams of expanding the program and impacting their community a reality they are faced with challenges that could put their program at risk. A young cop makes efforts to connect with the people in the community as one of the good guys. Confident that he’s prepared for anything, he jumps right in to protect and serve but it doesn’t take long for the young officer to realize that maybe he’s not as prepared as he thought. The stories of these two men unfold as we witness their paths cross and their lives changed because of it.  Source:  Maverick Entertainment.

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