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Get Your First Glimpse...
Get your first glimpse of the #KnuckleHeadFilm film, and its stars Alfre Woodard and Gbenga Akinnagbe, when the trailer drops tomorrow morning!
Then see the whole thing at its premiere on March 26th at BAM, where Ms. Woodard herself will be in attendance! Get your tickets via:http://bam.org/film/2015/knucklehead
Meet Manny Herrera...
"Langston gives her, and the baby, a place to live so I can come visit from Newark. That’s the beauty of this…”
says Javier (Manny Herrera of Winter's Tale and Smash Fame,) as Langston’s (Gbenga Akinnagbe's) rival in love, in #KnuckleheadFilm which you can see in 8 days at BAM in the #newvoices in Black Cinema Fest!
Get your tickets here: http://bam.org/film/2015/knucklehead
And check out Herrera here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2809349/
9 Days Until the Premiere
With 9 days (!!!) until the BAM #newvoices premiere of #KnuckleheadFilm, starring Gbenga Akinnagbe and Alfre Woodard we are proud to release:
www.knuckleheadfilm.com
Meet Lauren Hodges...
At that premiere watch Lauren Hodges as Molly! Hodges is best known for her starring role as API analyst Tanya MacGaffin in the television drama series Rubicon.
She has also rocked out as bass player Joe Delamo on MY GUIDE TO BECOMING A ROCKTAR, and held a recurring role on HBO's IN TREATMENT.
After appearing in several independent features, she appeared in her first major studio film with Matt Damon in THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU.
In KNUCKLEHEAD, she plays Molly, the deputy editor of unscrupulous pharmaceutical ‘lifestyle’ magazine RxAdvisor, alongside Gbenga Akinnagbe and Alfre Woodard.
meet Maliq Johnson
The young Mr. Johnson has appeared in dozens of print ads and in commercials for companies including Macy's, AT&T and American Express. He plays Young Vic in Jamie Foxx's directorial debut AND SHE WAS MY EVE, which premiered at The Sundance Film festival. He has been featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Saturday Night Live, Christmas at Rockerfeller Center, and "The Golden Boy” on CBS. Young Mr. Johnson appears as Iron Mike in director Ben Bowman’s KnuckleheadFilm with Gbenga Akinnagbe and Alfre Woodard.
Location shooting in Bed-Stuy gives this movie something special...
Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn. The location of Spike Lee's groundbreaking film, DO THE RIGHT THING, and now his student Ben Bowman's #KnuckleheadFilm. The neighborhood is visually distinctive, colored by its murals, graffiti, and unforgettable local characters. Lead actor, Gbenga Akinnagbe, is deeply involved in activism in the community.
Meet Gbenga Akinnagbe
"This is it. A new and improved Langston Bellows. I'm going to be a contributing member of Bed-Stuy. I'm gonna walk old ladies across the street and they ain't gonna be scared no more. No more menacing society."
Meet Gbenga Akinnagbe (THE WIRE, THE FOLLOWING) as Langston Bellows, who plans to cure his mental disorder if he can get the prescription drugs he wants, in director Ben Bowman's KNUCKLEHEAD, the opening film of the 2015 New Voices in Black Cinema Festival at BAM on March 26th.