Shyne Documentary To Spotlight Urbanworld Movie Competition

The Urbanworld Movie Competition and Innovation Summit will current the highly effective documentary The Honorable Shyne because the spotlight and finale of the annual occasion.

The movie captures the extraordinary, uncommon transformation of Moses “Shyne” Barrow, the Grammy Award-winning artist who from rap star to a revered politician. Barrow’s story shall be instructed in an unique Q&A following the screening.

The pageant returns to New York Metropolis from November 13-17 and can proceed a convention of celebrating various voices and distinctive narratives. HBO will even have fun 28 years as a founding associate.

Regal Union Sq. will host screenings from worldwide filmmakers, whereas the Urbanworld Innovation Summit will kick off the pageant on opening day at Lincoln Middle’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Movie Middle.

The summit gives an area for creators to discover the altering panorama of digital content material supply, narrative artwork, and rising know-how.

“We’re honored to current movies and initiatives from over 15 nations, reflecting the variety and depth of human expertise,” Karen McMullen, Urbanworld Movie Competition director, mentioned.

Extra highlights embrace the screenings of Albany Highway, starring Lynn Whitfield and Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Model New, Denzel Whitaker’s directorial debut with co-director Yuki Maekawa-Ledbetter. Administrators Coodie and Chike will even lead a “Clips and Dialog” session, providing insights into their cultural affect as filmmakers.

The five-day pageant affords screenings, discussions, and even reside performances. ESPN Movies will current a breaking showcase.

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Under is the total slate of UrbanWorld 2024:

CONFIRMED PARTNERS: 

Founding Accomplice: HBO  

Status Accomplice: Warner Bros. Discovery  

Supporting: Comcast NBCUniversal, MoviePass, The New York State Council on the Arts  

Business: Movement Image Affiliation, Roku, The Useful Basis, Walt Disney Studios, ESPN Movies, Andscape, Hulu, Sony Photos Leisure, Amazon MGM Studios

2024 URBANWORLD FILM FESTIVAL SLATE: 

SPOTLIGHT FEATURES:  

• Unstoppable (Amazon MGM Studios) starring Jharrel Jerome, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Mykelti Williamson with Don Cheadle, and Jennifer Lopez
• It Was All a Dream, Directed by Dream Hampton, following the early days of hip-hop and that includes Biggie Smalls, Methodology Man, and Ice-T  
• Breakin’ on the One (ESPN Movies)

SHORT FILM HIGHLIGHTS:  

• Fannie, starring Aunjanue Ellis, re-creating Fannie Lou Hammer’s well-known speech
• Prison, Directed by Gown Imbriano, with a reside music efficiency by the movie’s collaborators Stew & Heidi  
• It Simply Occurred, starring Denzel Whitaker, a brief comedic movie  
• The Brown Canine, an animated quick that includes the voice skills of the late Michael Okay. Williams and Steve Buscemi, Directed by Nadia Hallgren and Jamie-James Medina  

CLIPS AND CONVERSATION: 

• Coodie & Chike, award-winning filmmakers, and administrators are identified for his or her compelling documentaries and music movies, together with the critically acclaimed Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy 

US NARRATIVE FEATURES: 

• Albany Highway, Director, Michael Swanson                                                    
• Freight, Director, J. Alphonse Nicholson

WORLD NARRATIVE FEATURES: 

• Good day Spring (China) Director, Lanjua Ma
• The Battle (Brazil) Director, Vera Egito
• To a Land Unknown (UK), Director, Mahdi Fleifel

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:

• Household Tree Director, Jennifer MacArthur 
• Paint Me a Highway Out of Right here Director, Catherine Gund
• Singing Again the Buffalo Director, Tasha Hubbard
• Songs from the Gap Director, Contessa Gayles

US SHORT NARRATIVE FILMS:

• At Night time, Director, Zoe Simone
• August & Ebony, Director, Sunyin Zhang
• Bloomed In The Water, Director, Joanne Mony Park
• Border Hopper, Director, Nico Casavechia
• Model New, Co-Administrators, Quincy Ledbetter and Denzel Whitaker
• Chimera, Director, Kryzz Gautier
• Chocolate with Sprinkles, Director, Huriyyah Muhammad
• drawn, Director, Claro de los Reyes
• Echoes of Pomegranate, Director, Alex Bijan Zandi
• Fannie, Director, Christine Swanson
• Within the Fold, Director, Manuel Del Valle
• It Simply Occurred Director, Steven Bennett
• Jamila, Director,  Julia Freij
• Final Hoorah at G-Child’s, Director,  DeeDee Casmir
• Depart On Excessive, Director, Javier Ortega, Andrew Slane
• Marcel’s Piñata, Director, Adrian B. Herrera
• Nwa (Black), Director, Hans Augustave
• Rites of Passage, Director, Grant Housley
• Aspect Roads, Director, Alvaro Nunez Sechi
• Tender Thoughts, Anndi Jinelle Liggett
• Terminally In poor health, Director, Chris Cole
• The Adventures of Robin Hood, Director, Monica Moore-Suriyage
• Thomasville, Director, Alex Woodruff
• Trending, Director, Felix Martiz
• When Winter Comes, Director, Yuan Yuan

WORLD SHORT NARRATIVE FILMS:

• Daybreak Each Day,(Egypt) Director, Amir Youssef
• Doris, (Ghana) Director, Edem Dotse
• Ebb & Stream, (Lebanon) Director, Nay Tabbara
• F**ok Sisterhood, (France) Director, Gael Barboza
• Future is Panorama, (Syrian Arab Republic) Director, Muschirf Shekh Zeyn
• If We Met Now, (Canada) Director, Halen King
• My Son Went Quiet, (Canada) Director, Ian Singh Bawa
• Son, (Iran) Director, Sama Hosseinpuor
• The Backway, (UK) Director, Cherno Jagne
• The Cascade, (Mexico) Director, Pablo Delgado Sanchez

SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS:

• A Household Portrait, Queens, Director, Billy Silva
• A Race within the Solar, Director, Okay. Nicole Mills
• Betye Saar: Drifting Towards Twilight, Director, Kyle Provencio Reingold
• Complexion, Director, Toko Shiki
• Prison, Director, Gown Imbriano
• El Regresso (The Return) Director, Samantha Ramirez
• Fenice, Director, Sterling Hampton IV
• Overlook-Me-Not, Director, Tamika R. Guyishard
• Simi, Director, Maria Mayo
• The Afro Mexpats, Director, Ebony Marie Bailey
• The Archive: Queer Nigerians, Director, Simisolaoluwa Akande
• The Can Mas Eshtete, Director, Laura Chechoway
• What Have been You Meant For, Director, Kevin Anthony Brooks
• When There Are No Phrases, Director,  Gabriella Canal

ANIMATION:

• Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal, Director, Alisi Telengut
• Dodo, Director, Yi Luo
• Pacemaker, Administrators,  Brian Vincent Rhodes, Christopher Lennertz
• Tehran is Ours, Director, Hamideh Azimi
• The Brown Canine, Director, Nadia Hallgren, Jamie-James Median

YOUNG CREATORS:

• Ayo, Verify Up! Director, Natan Xia
• Frog Leaping, Director, Ian Linn
• Goodbye Prepare Director, Chioma Ejimofo
• Moon within the Water, Director, Jingwen Fang
• Primero, Sueño Director, Andrés Lira
• Sunday in August, Director, Troy Charbonnet

SCREENPLAYS:

• En Root, author Rashmi Singh
• Fuego (2024), author Edwin FrankO
• If I Die in America, author Ward Kamel
• Kevin writers Carmus Johnson, Shannon Walsh & Jack Gorman
• Spitting Fireplace, author Angie Comer