Official Trailer for George C. Wolfe’s Rustin
Netflix has released the official trailer for RUSTIN, the much-anticipated Netflix film directed by 5-time Tony Award winner / DGA Award winner George C. Wolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) and starring Tony Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Colman Domingo alongside an all-star cast. RUSTIN will be released in select theaters on November 3rd and premieres globally on Netflix on November 17th.
The cast includes Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Audra McDonald, Aml Ameen, Gus Halper, Johnny Ramey, CCH Pounder, Michael Potts, Carra Patterson, Adrienne Warren, Bill Irwin, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jeffrey Wright, Lilli Kay, Jordan-Amanda Hall, Jakeem Dante Powell, Ayana Workman, Grantham Coleman, Jamilah Nadege Rosemond, Jules Latimer, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, Frank Harts, and Kevin Mambo.
RUSTIN is executive produced by Higher Ground’s Barack & Michelle Obama, Mark R. Wright and Alex G. Scott. Producers are Academy Award winner Bruce Cohen and Higher Ground’s Tonia Davis.
RUSTIN tells the incredible story of Bayard Rustin (played by Colman Domingo), the brilliant strategist behind 1963’s momentous March On Washington. As a close advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., he dedicated his life to the tireless quest for racial equality, human rights, and worldwide democracy. But as an openly gay Black man, he has been all but erased from the civil rights movement he helped build.
The road to RUSTIN began with triumphant debuts at Telluride and TIFF and went on to win audience awards at Heartland and MVFF. Along the way, Wolfe received the Spotlight Award at MVFF, the inaugural Sherzum Award at the Hamptons Film Festival and will be honored with the Impact Award at the upcoming Middleburg Film Festival.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, the acclaimed director talked about the importance of Bayard’s story. “Rustin, who was, in Wolfe’s estimation ‘about as out as a Black man could be in 1960s America,’ was largely pushed aside by civil rights leaders who feared that his sexuality would bring shame on the movement,” wrote Jenny Comita. “‘Here was this monumental human being who changed history, and then history forgot him,’ says Wolfe, himself a gay man, who has lived in New York City since 1979. Telling stories like Rustin’s, he says, is ‘a means to share, to inform, to challenge, to confront the world.’”
