Black Cinema Connection

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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Release Date:  8/21/20 – 8/30/20; American Black Film Festival (Virtual)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:  Solomon Onita, Jr.
Studio(s):  Cash Money Films, Groundwurk Studios, TigerEye Films.
Running Time:  120 mins.

Cast:  Abraham Attah, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Adepero Oduye, Kwesi Boakye

Story:  After moving to Arlington, Texas, a 19-year-old Nigerian immigrant struggles to balance his conflicting desires of joining a college fraternity and bonding with his strictly religious father.  Sources:  Tazmaniandevilmovie.com; abff.com/2020; IMDB.

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