ABFF 2020 Film Preview: Death Of A Telemarketer
Competing in the Narrative Features category at the 2020 American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Online Edition is the comedy-drama “Death of a Telemarketer,” written and directed by Khaled Ridgeway.
Producing the film are Datari Turner, Meagan Good and James J. Yi.
Starring Lamorne Morris, Alisha Wainwright, Haley Joel Osment and Jackie Earle Haley, the film follows a too-slick-for-his-own-good telemarketer (played by Morris) who finds himself in a life or death circumstance when he is held hostage at gunpoint for trying to con a middle-aged man (portrayed by Haley) to win a sales contest at work.
The film co-stars Matt McGorry, Gil Ozeri, Woody McClain, Sujata Day, David So, Ian Verdun, Gwen Gottlieb and Starletta DuPois.
Death of a Telemarketer executive producers are Phil Thornton, Leah Daniels-Butler, Jeff Friday, H.M. Coakley, Seth Gottlieb, Louis Steyn and TJ Steyn for Thirty06 Productions, Tim Weatherspoon, Jash’d Belcher, Jamal Chilton, Morris, Haley, Dave Brown, McGorry, and Day.
A recent grad from USC Cinematic Arts, Ridgeway’s previous works were the short films Night Diner (2019), and Bullied (2016).
