The Geanco Foundation will hold its annual Hollywood fundraiser on Friday, October 29 at The 1 Hotel to rally support for vulnerable women and children in Nigeria.
Expected guests include actor, comedian & podcaster Whitney Cummings, Dania Ramirez (Netflix’s Sweet Tooth), Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther), Jimmy Akingbola, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Tehmina Sunny, Will Ropp (The Way Back), Joshua Uduma (Little America), director & Oscar-nominated writer Billy Ray, Oscar- and Emmy-winning producer Mark Johnson, and legendary Nigerian actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde.
Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo, and B.J. Novak serve as Honorary Gala Chairs. Previous Gala Honorees include Charlize Theron, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Forest Whitaker. Sponsors include Showtime Networks, Netflix, the Zegar Family Fund, Latham & Watkins Llp, Somesuch, the Archibong Family, Star Beer USA, Lolea Sangria and Graphic Design Partner Misfit.
Gala proceeds will support Geanco’s David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for Girls, which provides tuition, healthcare, and social & psychological support...
Expected guests include actor, comedian & podcaster Whitney Cummings, Dania Ramirez (Netflix’s Sweet Tooth), Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther), Jimmy Akingbola, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Tehmina Sunny, Will Ropp (The Way Back), Joshua Uduma (Little America), director & Oscar-nominated writer Billy Ray, Oscar- and Emmy-winning producer Mark Johnson, and legendary Nigerian actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde.
Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo, and B.J. Novak serve as Honorary Gala Chairs. Previous Gala Honorees include Charlize Theron, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Forest Whitaker. Sponsors include Showtime Networks, Netflix, the Zegar Family Fund, Latham & Watkins Llp, Somesuch, the Archibong Family, Star Beer USA, Lolea Sangria and Graphic Design Partner Misfit.
Gala proceeds will support Geanco’s David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for Girls, which provides tuition, healthcare, and social & psychological support...
- 10/25/2021
- Look to the Stars
Grasshopper Film has secured the U.S. distribution rights to Iwow: I Walk on Water, a documentary feature from New York-based photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah, to released in physical and virtual theaters later this year. In Iwow, Allah focuses on longtime muse Frenchie, a 60-something schizophrenic, homeless Haitian man, who he becomes increasingly intertwined with. In parallel, Allah, the filmmaker behind Black Mother, also turns the camera on himself to document a turbulent romantic relationship and grapple with personal notions of spirituality and mortality – all inquiries about which he gathers advice from charismatic confidants including Fab 5 Freddy, members of the Wu-Tang Clan, and, in deeply moving exchanges, his own mother. Allah, who made his debut with the 2015 documentary Field Niggas, said “My objective hasn’t changed, it’s always been to keep it real with myself; to stay true to my vision and to have the courage to express it cinematically.
- 9/15/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: British filmmaker Tony Kaye has boarded the civil rights feature drama Civil.
Written by Austin Wright and Adam Knox, Civil follows two young men from opposite sides of the racial divide in the months leading up to the movement in 1955, who discover the real meaning of equality, through the ashes of tragedy.
Tina Treadwell, former VP of Disney Channel and current president of Treadwell Entertainment Group, is producing with Dru Davis who recently produced the Netflix Aaron Sorkin feature The Trial of the Chicago 7, as well as Kim Coleman, Joshua Uduma, Wright and Knox. Civil is a Treadwell Entertainment Group & Artistic Fortune Entertainment. The movie is planning to shoot early next year. Kaye is a six-time Grammy nominated music video director whose credits include Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train”, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California”, Roger Waters’ “What God Wants” and “Help Me” as well as Johnny Cash...
Written by Austin Wright and Adam Knox, Civil follows two young men from opposite sides of the racial divide in the months leading up to the movement in 1955, who discover the real meaning of equality, through the ashes of tragedy.
Tina Treadwell, former VP of Disney Channel and current president of Treadwell Entertainment Group, is producing with Dru Davis who recently produced the Netflix Aaron Sorkin feature The Trial of the Chicago 7, as well as Kim Coleman, Joshua Uduma, Wright and Knox. Civil is a Treadwell Entertainment Group & Artistic Fortune Entertainment. The movie is planning to shoot early next year. Kaye is a six-time Grammy nominated music video director whose credits include Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train”, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California”, Roger Waters’ “What God Wants” and “Help Me” as well as Johnny Cash...
- 7/16/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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