Starring: Ginger Manning, Xavier O’Ryan, Pat Bridges, Tim “Cutt-up” McGee, Isaiah Matthew, Jerome Pulley, Jr., John Luckett and Joseph Dixon, Jr.
Storyline: With $22 tucked in his sock, 12-year-old Eric (Isaiah Matthew) sets off across the city’s rough and tumble streets to pick up his grandmother’s prescription. Sounds simple, right? Not when the quick game of b-ball he joins goes into OT! To make up for lost time, Eric heads down the short cut his mother strictly forbade, where he runs into mischievous pals and scheming elders. While Eric struggles to make decisions that will get his grandmother’s medicine into his hands, soon night is falling, sirens are blaring and still…no success! Director Aaron Greer’s affecting drama illustrates how the love and support of a close-knit family make Eric’s day of getting everything wrong into a day of getting it right…and Gettin’ Grown.
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Traci Townsend
She’s never had a problem attracting men, keeping them is a different story.
87 mins | Romantic Comedy
Directed by: Craig Ross, Jr.
Starring: Jazsmin Lewis, Mari Marrow, Victor Williams and Richard T. Jones
Storyline: When it comes to dating, thirtysomething advice columnist Traci (Jaszmin Lewis) has had her share of good men. But as luck would have it, she’s still single and wants to know why. So Traci enlists the help of her level-headed, best friend Sylvia (Mari Marrow), and together they trip down memory lane. Armed with a mic and camera, they interview Traci’s former lovers – Darrell, Pierre and Dante – to find out why they never proposed.
Each encounter comically teaches Traci more about herself than she would care to know, causing her to re-evaluate the meaning of love, life, and ultimately, happiness.
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And Then Came Love
She's about to have a blind date with destiny.
98 mins | Romantic Comedy
Directed by: Richard Schenkman
Starring: Vanessa A. Williams, Kevin Daniels, Ben Vereen, Michael Boatman and Eartha Kitt
Storyline: Julie (Vanessa Williams - "Soul Food," TV's "Ugly Betty") is a successful magazine columnist who has it all - a great job, a rent controlled apartment, an adoring boyfriend and best of all, an adorable six-year-old son named Jake. Her perfect world, however, is rocked when she opens Pandora's Box and seeks out the anonymous sperm donor who fathered her young son. Also starring Kevin Daniels ("Ladder 49"), Ben Verren ("Idlewild," "All That Jazz"), Michael Boatman (TV's "Arli$$," "Spin City") and Eartha Kitt ('Boomerang," TV's "Batman").
Storyline: A road trip takes an unexpected turn for an argumentative young couple from Chicago when their car breaks down in a small town. Byron (Terrence Howard) and Nina (Nicole Ari Parker) are the feuding lovers who become embroiled in local activities as they wait for their car to be fixed, and a racial theme develops as they become friends with the son of a racist mechanic.
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The List
She was everything he didn’t know he wanted.
90 mins | Romantic Comedy
Directed by: Brandon Sonnier
Starring: Wayne Brady, Flex Alexander, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Storyline: Lewis Bond (Emmy winner Wayne Brady), a dashing young publishing executive, has. So he decides to get serious about love and create a list that his "perfect mate" must match. And just when he thinks he has found his one and only (Sydney T. Poitier) she turns out not to be as perfect as he thought.
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Black August
For militant George Jackson, revolution was not a choice...it was a necessity.
116 mins | Drama
Directed by: Samm Styles
Starring: Gary Dourdan, Ezra Stanley, Don Williams
Storyline: Inmate activist George Lester Jackson's (CSI's Gary Dourdan) short life became a flashpoint for revolution, igniting the bloodiest riot in San Quentin's history. In a story ripped from history's headlines, Black August traces Jackson's spiritual journey and violent fate, from being sent up on a one-year-to-life sentence for robbing a gas station of $71, to galvanizing the Black Guerrilla Family with his incendiary book of letters, Soledad Brother, to the fierce August day when his younger brother Jonathan shocked the world by taking a California courtroom hostage to protest Jackson's upcoming trial.
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Kali’s Vibe
In love and sex…there are no straight answers.
93 mins | Romantic Comedy
Directed by: Shari L. Carpenter
Starring: Lizzy Cooper Davis, Phalana Tiller, Charles Malik Whitfield, Yevette Brooks, Akanke McLean-Nur, Monet Dunham, Burnadair Lipscombe-Hunt
Storyline: Super-organized Kali McPherson is great at straightening out other people’s lives but less successful at managing her own. When she is forced to dump her unfaithful poet girlfriend, Crystal, perennial playboy Ezra Reese is eager to step up to the plate. Accustomed to getting by on his charms, Reese is perplexed by Kali’s rebuffs. As the two forge an unlikely friendship, they find themselves attracted to one another and are forced to confront their notions of self, sexuality, and the universal matter of learning to love a stranger.
