Trailer & Poster For Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny
Prime Video has released the official trailer and poster for Nanny, in theaters November 23 and on Prime Video December 16.
Nanny is the haunting and award-winning debut feature from writer/director Nikyatu Jusu, starring Anna Diop (US), Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible – Fallout), Sinqua Walls (American Soul), Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age), Rose Decker (Mare of Easttown) and Leslie Uggams (Deadpool).
It’s the first horror film to win the Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Grand Gury Prize and only the second time this honor has been bestowed upon a Black female director. At its core, Nanny is a genre-bending film that blends psychological horror with culturally relevant issues of social identity, including race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Set in New York City, this fable of a Senegalese immigrant’s experience working for an affluent family is grounded in the real life experiences of domestic workers. The story is personal to Nikyatu Jusu’s upbringing, whose mother sustained her household with this occupation. Jusu incorporated spiritual genre elements that spoke to her lineage.
Selected as a screenplay for the 2019 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab & Summit, NANNY was chosen for Sundance’s 2020 Writer’s Lab and the 2020 Director’s Lab. The script was also featured on the 2020 Blacklist. Additionally, the project has been recognized as part of the 35 projects chosen for the 2020 Creative Capital Awards.
The film will be produced by Nikkia Moulterie (Random Acts of Flyness, Suicide By Sunlight) and Stay Gold Features’ Daniela Taplin Lundberg (Harriet, Honey Boy).
Executive producing are Maria Zuckerman, Ryan Heller and Michael Bloom for Topic Studios (The Mauritanian, Luce, Leave No Trace); Rebecca Cammarata (Harriet, Honey Boy) of Stay Gold Features; Sumalee Montano (This is Us); and Grace Lay of LinLay Productions. Jusu will also executive produce.