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EXCLUSIVE: Imani Lewis (First Kill) and Tanya Wright (Orange Is nan New Black) person signed connected to prima in Killa, a horror-drama that will people nan characteristic filmmaking debut of writer-director Laci Dent.
Shooting successful August, nan movie follows Asa Jones, a woman from Louisiana who wants to conquer nan world of girls’ basketball. When Asa sees her changeable astatine a assemblage danasiwa slipping away, she originates to suffer herself to a captivating force.
Pic is being produced by Morgan Bentz and executive produced by Kareem Mortimer, Trevite Willis and Julia Chatwin of Best Yet Entertainment (Camera d’Or winner The President’s Cake), arsenic good arsenic Ellen Schmitt and Maggie Flatley of Brickyard VFX Studio.
An character and Grammy-winning songwriter, Lewis is champion known for starring successful Netflix’s teen vampire series First Kill, and for co-writing nan azygous “Water” by Tyla. Her movie credits see Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade, Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old Version, Rashad Frett’s Ricky, Ekwa Msangi’s Farewell Amor, and Rashaad Ernesto Green’s Premature. She will adjacent beryllium seen successful nan indie Pure and is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment, GOF Talent Management, Innovative Artists and Granderson Des Rochers.
Wright is possibly champion known for activity connected shows like Orange Is nan New Black, True Blood and 24.
From New Orleans, Louisiana, Dent is some a filmmaker and a professor of surface arts astatine Pepperdine University. Her activity arsenic a screenwriter has been supported by The Black List, SFFILM, Women successful Film Los Angeles and The Gotham Week Project Market. Her short film Into nan Night screened astatine nan Museum of Modern Art and received support from The Future of Film Is Female. She is repped by Donaldson, Callif, Perez LLP.
