Writer/director Katherine Nero's dramatic feature film "For The Cause" will be screened in New York as part of the New Filmmakers New York Summer Series on Wednesday, July 2nd. The film last year made its film festival circuit run after its world premiere at the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago. Starring Charlette Speigner, Shariba Rivers and Eugene Parker, the dramatic feature film deals with Mirai Scott (Speigner), a civil rights attorney who is contacted by her father (Parker), a former Black Panther that went underground 30 years prior to escape a murder charge, and who urges her to take his case. The plot thickens since "Mirai is hesitant to defend a man she...
- 6/18/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
In a few weeks, the 22nd annual Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles, taking place Feb. 6-17 2014, will announce their highly anticipated selections for next year’s festival.But we already know what one of the films to be screened at the upcoming event will be.Writer/director Katherine Nero's feature film, For The Cause, will make its West Coast premiere at the festival after world premiering this past summer at the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago.Starring Charlette Speigner, Shariba Rivers and Eugene Parker in the leads, the dramatic feature film deals with Mirai Scott (Speigner), “a civil rights attorney Mirai Scott (played by Speigner 0 who is contacted by her...
- 12/6/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
We last reported on writer/director Katherine Nero's independently-made feature film, For The Cause, in February, when it was still in post-production.Now the Chicago-shot film, which stars Charlette Speigner, Shariba Rivers and Eugene Parker, is complete and is about to hit the film festival circuit.Ms. Nero has now released the first full trailer for her film, which you can watch below.The film deals with Mirai Scott (Speigner), “a civil rights attorney, who is contacted by her father (Parker), a former Black Panther who went underground 30 years ago to escape a murder charge and who urges her to take his case. Initially, Mirai is hesitant to defend a man...
- 6/12/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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