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Sold is a 2014 drama film directed by Jeffrey D. Brown [1] based on Patricia McCormick's novel Sold. [ 2 ] The film is executive produced by Emma Thompson and produced by Jane Charles.
Antebellum is a 2020 American black horror thriller film [3] [4] written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. The film stars Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons and Gabourey Sidibe, and follows a 21st-century African-American woman who wakes to find herself mysteriously in a Southern slave plantation from which ...
In California, Sara is eighteen and has to leave her foster home; she is offered training to be a waitress working on cruise ships. She accepts, but instead is sold to sex traffickers by Diane. In India, young teen Amba is partying with her friends when a guy she'd rejected tries to hit on her again. He is thrown out.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
Netflix dominated the film category with three films making the cut, all from women screenwriters who also directed their movies: “The Lost Daughter” from Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Power of ...
The film was produced by Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler through Plank's Centripetal Films production company. It was inspired by the story of Chong Kim, who claims that she was kidnapped and sold into a domestic human trafficking ring in the mid 1990s. [1] [2] [3] It had its world premiere at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival. [4]
The actors in Jeremy O. Harris's divisive 'Slave Play,' playing at the Mark Taper Forum through mid-March, tell The Times what was like to be part of this production.
Netflix enlisted some of Hollywood’s hottest names to bring the beloved book Uglies to life. Joey King stars as Tally Youngblood in the new movie — based on author Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 ...