Set in a recording studio in the 1920’s, over the course of one afternoon, a group of musicians and the legendary blues singer Ma Rainey record several songs as they discuss the questions of prejudice and the problems facing black people in American society.
George C. Wolfe
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A self-absorbed college student running low on cash takes a job working for a pianist struggling with ALS.
Logline: A roller coaster mechanic and Jazz virtuoso who lives out of an abandoned train caboose in New Orleans, suddenly inherits a large sum of money and decides to hire a British butler.
Actor helms drama pic.
Broadway vet replaces Kenny Ortega on big-screen adaptation.
Logline: The story focuses on three days in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, where a bodega owner who inherited his grandmother’s lottery windfall plots his retirement to a Dominican Republic beach. As he bids farewell to his customers on the block, he becomes conflicted about leaving behind a group that has become family.
Logline: A self-absorbed college student running low on cash, takes a job working for a pianist struggling with ALS.
Logline: A district attorney grapples with feelings of revenge as he prosecutes a black history professor on trial for the murders of white men accused of crimes against blacks during the civil rights movement.
