‘American Fiction’ to Open 2023 Urbanworld Film Festival
“American Fiction,” winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, will screen at the opening night of the 2023 Urbanworld Film Festival on November 1st.
This year’s festival will take place on November 1-5, 2023 at AMC 34th Street and the SVA Theatre. Tickets can be purchased here - https://urbanworld.org/film-guide-2023/
Written and directed by Cord Jefferson, the film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Sterling K. Brown, Myra Lucretia Taylor, John Ortiz, Issa Rae, and Adam Brody.
AMERICAN FICTION’s Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Produced by MRC and Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street Productions, the film is based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett.