Focus Features to release Kobi Libil’s The American Society of Magical Negroes in March 2024
Focus Features will release filmmaker Kobi Libii’s feature directorial debut, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES, on March 22, 2024. Libii is an alumnus of both the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Directors Lab, where he first developed the project.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people’s lives easier.
The film stars Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Michaela Watkins, Rupert Friend and Nicole Byer, and is produced by Julia Lebedev and Eddie Vaisman of Sight Unseen, Angel Lopez and Kobi Libii.
Kobi Libii is a writer/director/actor, most recently seen writing and performing on Comedy Central’s The Opposition with Jordan Klepper.
Focus is distributing THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES in the U.S. with Universal Pictures International handling international distribution.