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Urbanworld Film Festival Closed-out
Its 27th Edition in Style with Sensational Featured Films and Unprecedented Stories
NEW YORK, NY (SMI-GLOBAL-ENTERTAINMENT NOV 01-05, 2023)-The Urbanworld Film Festival closed-out its 27th edition with a sensational line-up of featured films and its Innovation Summit that included the premiere and directorial film debut of Cord Jefferson with " American Fiction ", special discussion with Marvel's youngest film director " Nia DaCosta" and " world premiere of Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story by Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz in NYC.
" American Fiction " is a satire comedy featured film co-written by Cord Jefferson and Percival Everett, and directed by Cord Jefferson who made his directorial film debut and kicked-off the 5-day 2024 UrbanWorld Film Festival in NYC.
The film is about a novelist/professorr Thelonious "Monk" Ellison played by Jeffrey Wright, who is tired and disappointed of the publishing industry who profits from stereotyping black books and fabricate an alias name to write a satire black book story of his own to unmask the hypocrisy and insanity of the industry.
The Cast includes: Lead cast Jeffrey Wright ( Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, Trace Ellis Ross (Lisa Ellison), John Ortiz (Arthur), Sterling K. Brown ( Clifford Ellison)
Article and Photo by Marcello Cutti II/Urban/Starlight Illustrated
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