Exclusive: Chloe Bailey, Druski, Anjelika Washington, Producer Will Packer and Director Tina Gordon talk Praise This
Now playing on Peacock from Universal Pictures and producer Will Packer is Praise This, directed by Tina Gordon and starring Chloe Bailey, Druski, Anjelika Washington, Quavo, Tristan Mack Wilds, Birgundi Baker, Crystal Hayslett, Loren Lott, Jekalyn Carr, Koryn Hawthorne, Cocoa Brown, Rafael Castillo, Michael Anthony, Kendrick Cross, Janora McDuffie, Kountry Wayne, Philip Fornah, and Vanessa Fraction.
The film is a new cinematic musical event set in the world of Atlanta’s competitive gospel youth choir praise teams.
Praise This follows aspiring musical superstar Sam (Chloe Bailey), a young woman driven, at almost any cost, to break into the music business. So, when her father (Philip Fornah), worried that Sam is associating with a dangerous crowd, moves them from Los Angeles to Atlanta to live with Sam’s sunny cousin, Jess (Anjelika Washington), Sam is …not happy.
But when Sam is forced to join her cousin’s struggling, underdog praise team in the lead-up to a national championship competition, she sees an opportunity to finally make her dreams come true. What she discovers, though, is that ambition can command a high price and that praise is not about glory, but gratitude.
Praise This is produced by Will Packer, Tim Story, Sharla Sumpter Bridgett and by James Lopez.
The story is by Brandon Broussard & Hudson Obayuwana & Jana Savage, the writing team collectively known as Murder Ink (#Reality High), and the screenplay is by Tina Gordon and Brandon Broussard & Hudson Obayuwana & Jana Savage. The film is executive produced by Preston Holmes and Johanna Byer, executive vice president of motion pictures for Will Packer Productions.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talked with Chloe Bailey, Anjelika Washington, Druski, producer Will Packer and director Tina Gordon about Peacock's Praise This.
