A producer on “Barbara Lee: Talking Reality to Energy,” the winner of this 12 months’s NAACP Picture Award for Excellent Documentary, is ready to make her directorial debut. Joslyn Rose Lyons will observe up the portrait of the Democratic congresswoman with “Shadowbox,” described as a “sweeping fable, using magical realism to chronicle a metropolis threatened by gentrification and susceptible to dropping its goals.” She additionally penned its script.
Hill Harper (“CSI:NY”) and J. Alphonse Nicholson (“P-Valley”) are set to star and can exec produce, per Deadline.
Rose Lyons, Harper, and Nicholson beforehand collaborated on “Butterfly Boxing,” a brief that’s in post-production.
“I’m honored to have Hill Harper and J. Alphonse Nicholson star and government produce my directorial debut movie,” stated Rose Lyons. “They’re wonderful expertise, and have been an inspiration on my journey, so to have the ability to formally work with them is an honor.”
Rose Lyons has directed and produced content material for Starz, Lionsgate, Warner Bros, BET, and OWN, amongst different retailers. She’s directed dozens of music movies, together with Mali Music’s “Lovely.”
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