Film - Emancipation
Inspired by a true story, Apple Original Films' Emancipation, directed and executive produced by Antoine Fuqua and starring and produced by Will Smith, comes to cinemas and streaming in December ...
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Ben Foster (Hell or High Water, Leave No Trace), Charmaine Bingwa (The Good Fight, Black Box, Trees of Peace), Gilbert Owuor (Montana Story, Mute, Reprisal, Calls) and Mustafa Shakir (Soul Assassin, Cowboy Bebop, Marvel’s Luke Cage and The Deuce) star alongside Smith in Emancipation. The ensemble cast also includes Steven Ogg (Snowpiercer, Westworld, The Tick, The Walking Dead), Grant Harvey (Animal Kingdom, The Crossing, All For Nikki), Ronnie Gene Blevins (Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It, Death In Texas, Joe), Jayson Warner Smith (The Walking Dead, Rectify, The Birth of a Nation), Jabbar Lewis (Terminal List, Adventure Force 5), Michael Luwoye (The Gifted, Prodigal Son, She's Gotta Have It), Aaron Moten (Next, Disjointed, Stu) and newcomer Imani Pullum.
Emancipation is directed by Antoine Fuqua, from a script by William N. Collage. The film is produced by Will Smith and Jon Mone through Westbrook Studios, Joey McFarland though McFarland Entertainment and Todd Black through Escape Artists. Antoine Fuqua, James Lassiter, Heather Washington, Cliff Roberts, Glen Basner and Scott Greenberg are executive producing.
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The announcement was made following an advance screening of Emancipation hosted together with the NAACP during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 51st Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., where Fuqua, Smith and Mary Elliott, curator of American Slavery at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, participated in a conversation about the film moderated by politics and culture commentator Angela Rye.
Emancipation tells the triumphant story of Peter (Smith), a man who escapes from slavery, relying on his wits, unwavering faith and deep love for his family to evade cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on his quest for freedom. The film is inspired by the 1863 photos of Whipped Peter, taken during a Union Army medical examination, that first appeared in Harper’s Weekly. One image, known as The Scourged Back, which shows Peter’s bare back mutilated by a whipping delivered by his enslavers, ultimately contributed to growing public opposition to slavery.
Emancipation tells the triumphant story of Peter (Smith), a man who escapes from slavery, relying on his wits, unwavering faith and deep love for his family to evade cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on his quest for freedom. The film is inspired by the 1863 photos of Whipped Peter, taken during a Union Army medical examination, that first appeared in Harper’s Weekly. One image, known as The Scourged Back, which shows Peter’s bare back mutilated by a whipping delivered by his enslavers, ultimately contributed to growing public opposition to slavery.
Ben Foster (Hell or High Water, Leave No Trace), Charmaine Bingwa (The Good Fight, Black Box, Trees of Peace), Gilbert Owuor (Montana Story, Mute, Reprisal, Calls) and Mustafa Shakir (Soul Assassin, Cowboy Bebop, Marvel’s Luke Cage and The Deuce) star alongside Smith in Emancipation. The ensemble cast also includes Steven Ogg (Snowpiercer, Westworld, The Tick, The Walking Dead), Grant Harvey (Animal Kingdom, The Crossing, All For Nikki), Ronnie Gene Blevins (Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It, Death In Texas, Joe), Jayson Warner Smith (The Walking Dead, Rectify, The Birth of a Nation), Jabbar Lewis (Terminal List, Adventure Force 5), Michael Luwoye (The Gifted, Prodigal Son, She's Gotta Have It), Aaron Moten (Next, Disjointed, Stu) and newcomer Imani Pullum.
Emancipation is directed by Antoine Fuqua, from a script by William N. Collage. The film is produced by Will Smith and Jon Mone through Westbrook Studios, Joey McFarland though McFarland Entertainment and Todd Black through Escape Artists. Antoine Fuqua, James Lassiter, Heather Washington, Cliff Roberts, Glen Basner and Scott Greenberg are executive producing.
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