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EXCLUSIVE: Braham Entertainment will beryllium astatine nan Cannes Market this twelvemonth pinch Angel City, nan debut characteristic from Noel Braham.
Noel Braham wrote, directed, and produced nan film. He besides stars successful nan movie alongside Saturday Night Live alum Chris Kattan, Tony Award victor Tonya Pinkins, two-time Super Bowl champion and four-time Pro Bowler Dwight Hicks, and Emmy victor Kim Estes.
The ensemble is joined by Stakiah Lynn Washington (Primo), Helen Madelyn Kim (Station 19), Roxanne Beckford (A Different World), and Bria Samoné Henderson (The Good Doctor).
Angel City follows a second-generation migrant rideshare driver who defies his family’s expectations to prosecute his puerility emotion of acting, only to watch his lodging information illness arsenic he chases nan dream.
The film’s charismatic synopsis reads: “As nan looming specter of homelessness closes in, he maintains a cautiously curated societal media persona that hides his increasing desperation, navigating nan beautiful and sadistic realities of a metropolis built connected perception. Described arsenic a melodramatic odyssey pinch comedic undertones, nan movie is simply a raw, soulful image of ambition, identity, and nan costs of chasing what you love.”
Angel City is an adjustment of Braham’s short movie Watchtower, which received 2 Emmy nominations for Outstanding Special Class Film and Outstanding Special Class Directing. The movie draws from Braham’s ain acquisition sleeping successful hostels and retired of his car erstwhile he first moved to Los Angeles successful 2013. Braham is besides nan laminitis of nan Micheaux Film Festival.
“I was sleeping successful hostels and retired of my car erstwhile I first moved to Los Angeles. One of my PAs was sleeping successful a shelter encampment betwixt days connected our set. That’s nan LA astir group ne'er spot — nan metropolis beneath nan city,” Braham said successful a statement.
“Angel City is my effort to make it visible. The movie is astir chasing your dreams while paying a costs astir group won’t talk about. It’s for anyone — creator aliases not — who refuses to springiness up connected what they judge in.”
