Gravitas Ventures Picks Up ‘Princess of the Row’ For November Release

THR is reporting that Gravitas Ventures has picked up the North American rights to director Van Maximilian Carlson's foster child drama Princess of the Row, which is executive produced by Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary.

A Nov. 27 theatrical and video-on-demand release is set for the Edi Gathegi, Martin Sheen, Tayler Buck, Ana Ortiz and Jacob Vargas starrer about a 12-year-old girl in foster care who wants to live with her homeless, mentally ill father on Los Angeles' Skid Row.

Bouncing around the sometimes-abusive foster care system, Alicia Willis, a creative 12-year-old girl, ditches school to visit her military veteran father Sgt. Beaumont “Bo” Willis. After a battle-induced brain injury during his service in Iraq, Bo is now homeless and living on LA’s skid row while suffering from severe PTSD. The injury renders him unable to recognize his own daughter most of the time but to Alicia it doesn’t matter, because she remembers him as the father he used to be: a caring man with a love of storytelling. After discovering her next foster home is ten hours away, Alicia sets out on a mission to save her family. With social services in hot pursuit, she and her father flee the city in search of a better life where they can be together in peace.

Princess of the Row is written by A. Shawn Austin and Carlson and produced by Austin and Gathegi.

Executive producers Freeman and McCreary of Revelations Entertainment added in their own statement: “Revelations has always strived to reveal truth and represent underserved voices. And Princess Of The Row does just that as it paints a beautiful, intimate story of a daughter and her father, while also humanizing and highlighting the plight of our brothers and sisters without homes."