We’ve obtained unique information concerning the newest Lifetime Black Lady Lacking movie!
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Following final 12 months’s critically acclaimed Black Lady Lacking film government produced and starring Garcelle Beauvais, Naturi Naughton (Queens, Energy) and Tanyell Quian (Queen Sugar, Lace) will headline the upcoming Black Lady Lacking film. Kidnapped at an HBCU: A Black Lady Lacking Film will premiere on tv July 20 on Lifetime and serves to focus on the rising epidemic of lacking Black girls and ladies notably those that come from deprived communities.
Kidnapped at an HBCU: A Black Lady Lacking Film follows the story of Shannon (Tanyell Quian), an bold faculty pupil who’s struggling to pay her faculty tuition and finally stops attending courses. The one one who notices Shannon’s sudden disappearance is her faculty counselor Ellen (Naturi Naughton). Ellen’s issues are dismissed by Shannon’s professors, campus administration, college students and even her personal boyfriend. As a substitute of solutions, Ellen is met with careless feedback about how “ladies like that” from underserved communities usually drop out of faculty. Decided to seek out Shannon, Ellen inadvertently uncovers a trafficking ring concentrating on college students in want like Shannon. With time working out, Ellen should battle tirelessly to achieve the help she must rescue Shannon and convey down the trafficking ring.
Naturi Naughton most notably starred within the Starz Community’s #1 hit sequence Energy, government produced by 50 Cent. She is a two-time recipient of the 2017 and 2018 NAACP “Excellent Supporting Actress in a Drama Collection” award for her work on Energy. Naughton has reprised her position in numerous Energy spin-offs. She was additionally one of many leads reverse Eve and Brandy within the ABC sequence Queens. Different movie credit embody 88, Infamous, Fame and Lottery Ticket Mad Males, It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia, The Playboy Membership and The Shopper Listing. Naughton additionally appeared on Broadway within the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray. Naturi Naughton is repped by Mainstay Leisure and Gersh.
Tanyell Quian obtained her first huge break n 2016 when she landed the recurring position of “Keke” within the Ava Duvernay sequence Queen Sugar. She has additionally graced the massive display with roles reverse award- profitable actors like Octavia Spencer within the Blum Home function MA, Cuba Gooding Jr in Bayou Caviar, Lin Shaye in Gothic Harvest and Ethan Hawke, Wyatt Russel, Sam Rockwell, Kris Kristofferson and plenty of extra in Blaze. Quian can at the moment be seen in a recurring position within the AMC sequence The Driver/Parish reverse Giancarlo Esposito. Taynell Quian is repped by Folks Retailer and TCA administration.
Named one among Folks Journal’s extremely coveted 50 Most Lovely, Haitian-born award-winning actress and government producer Garcelle Beauvais has charmed audiences of assorted backgrounds for years. Utilizing her dramatic and comedic talents, she has been seen in TV sequence and movies resembling The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air, The Jamie Foxx Present, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Coming to America (1&2), White Home Down and co-hosted on the multi-award-winning speak present Fox’s The Actual. Persevering with to cement her standing as a media queen, she launched her manufacturing firm Garcelle Productions, launched a memoir titled Love Me as I Am (Harper Collins) and proudly turned the primary Black forged member on Bravo’s hit sequence The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Kidnapped at an HBCU: A Black Lady Lacking Film is produced for Lifetime by Johnson Manufacturing Group in affiliation with Movement Content material Group. Garcelle Beauvais, Tim Johnson, Stacy Mandelberg, Gordon Gilbertson, Jason Egenberg, Richard Foster and Chet Fenster are government producers. Delmar Washington, who directed the primary Black Lady Lacking film, returns to direct this film, based mostly on a script written by Avery O’Williams (A lot, Simply Divorced).
Lifetime has introduced plans to launch three Black Lady Lacking movies. The third is anticipated to drop a while this Fall.
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