A24 Sets Release Date For Director Janicza Bravo’s Stripper Film ‘Zola’

A24 has set a June 30, 2021 release date for its stripper film ‘Zola.’ Directed by Janicza Bravo from a screenplay by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris, the film stars Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo, Jason Mitchell and Nicholas Braun. The film had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Zola is based on a Rolling Stones article titled, Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted by David Kushner. In 2015, Aziah ‘Zola’ Wells sent out a series of tweets that detailed a wild 2-day Flordia trip with a sex worker named Jessica, her boyfriend Jarrett, and Jessica’s violent pimp, who went by X.

“You wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”

Zola meets Stefani at a restaurant where Zola waitresses, and the two immediately click over pole dancing. Only a day after they exchange numbers, Stefani invites Zola on a cross-country road trip, where the goal is to make as much money as possible dancing in Florida strip clubs. Zola agrees, and suddenly she is trapped in the craziest, most unexpected trip of her life.