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Steps (2021)
Character: Brian Coleman
A man, after being robbed and shot fourteen years earlier, succumbs to a life of addiction and ultimately loses the love of his life and knowing his only child. After meeting a local pastor, Brian is forced to confront his alcohol addiction. His volunteer work at the pastor's church leads him to a job as a home health-care worker. Upon meeting his first patient, Taj, the two men are unaware that their lives will forever be changed through this trying relationship.
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Postmarked (2019)
Character: Lionel
One summer afternoon, a ten-year-old boy finds a forgotten trove of postcards. To solve their mystery, he journeys to their postmarked city in search of the person who sent them.
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Womack (2012)
Character: Womack
A vicious crime leaves a Brooklyn man wrestling with his conscience in this short film.
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Just Mercy (2019)
Character: Herbert Richardson
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
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Monsters and Men (2018)
Character: Will Morris
After capturing an illegal act of police violence on his cellphone, a Brooklyn street hustler sets off a series of events that alter the lives of a local police officer and a star high-school athlete.
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Anesthesia (2016)
Character: Parnell
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
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Wetlands (2017)
Character: Sergeant Walker
A man attempts to make a new start in Atlantic City with the help of his daughter and a new business partner.
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The Week Of (2018)
Character: Cousin Marvin
The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
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Pro-Black Sheep (2009)
Character: Alex
Character-driven satirical drama about a young, extraordinarily intellectual "black activist" wannabe who is discovered as the political critic sending out anonymous emails that criticize today's black leadership. Instead of holding it against him, the black leader who finds him out hires his worst critic as a second adviser.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Character: Jeremy
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
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The Challenger (2015)
Character: Frederick
A legendary trainer comes out of retirement to help an underdog boxer fight his way to a better life.
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Shelter (2014)
Character: Franklin
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
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Pariah (2011)
Character: Sock
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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Full Circle (2013)
Character: Lomatic
A young pizza delivery boy, Anthoni, faces a life-changing crisis when his curiosity pulls him away from his delivery order into an adjacent apartment's open door.
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Character: Louis McKay
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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Smile (2022)
Character: Robert Talley
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
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The Photograph (2020)
Character: Isaac Jefferson
When famed photographer Christina Eames dies unexpectedly, she leaves her estranged daughter, Mae, hurt, angry and full of questions. When Mae finds a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box, she soon finds herself delving into her mother's early life -- an investigation that leads to an unexpected romance with a rising journalist.
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The Unforgivable (2021)
Character: Vincent Cross
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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Mudbound (2017)
Character: Hap Jackson
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
Character: James Sr.
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.
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Bull (2020)
Character: Abe
In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, an aging bullfighter who's seen his best days in the arena; it's a collision that will change them both.
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Cut Throat City (2020)
Character: Courtney
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.
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Don't Look Up (2021)
Character: Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
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Greyhound (2020)
Character: Cleveland
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
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