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Nichelle Nichols Nasa Documentary ‘Woman In Motion’ Gets North American Distribution Deal
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Exclusive: Shout! Studios has acquired all North American rights to doc feature Woman In Motion, about how Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols helped pioneer the Nasa recruiting program to hire people of color and the first female astronauts for the space agency in the late 1970s and 1980s.

The film also chronicles Nichols’ rise to fame and portrayal of Uhura on Star Trek, which marked one of the first leading roles for an African-American actress in a mainstream TV series. You can check out the engaging first trailer for the movie here.

Directed by Todd Thompson (The Highwaymen), the film features actors, activists, scientists and astronauts including Nichols, Neil deGrasse Tyson, George Takei, Pharrell Williams, Martin Luther King III, Al Sharpton, Vivica A. Fox, Walter Koenig, Rod Roddenberry, Michael Dorn, Guy Bluford, Charles Bolden, Ivor Dawson, Frederik Gregory and Benjamin Crump.

The film was produced by Thompson along with his...
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 7/21/2020
  • by Andreas Wiseman
  • Deadline Film + TV
‘The Highwaymen’ Readies for Production, Concourse to Sell (Exclusive)
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“The Highwaymen,” about a group of African American artists in segregated 1960s Florida, is being readied to go into production, with casting underway. Curated By Media is packaging the project, with Concourse Media on board as sales agent. Todd Thompson directs from a script by Lucien Christian Adderley and Richard ‘Byrd’ Wilson.

Thompson previously directed the documentary “Woman in Motion,” which traces the drive – led by Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura in “Star Trek” – to recruit African American, Asian and Latino folks to join Nasa’s Space Shuttle Program. Adderley and Wilson are in their second season writing for Own series “David Makes Man,” another Florida-set drama, created by Tarell Alvin McCraney, who won the adapted screenplay Academy Award with Barry Jenkins for “Moonlight.”

The film is based on the true story about a group of 25 young African American men and one African American woman, led by 19-year-old Alfred Hair, who...
See full article at Variety Film + TV
  • 5/27/2020
  • by Leo Barraclough
  • Variety Film + TV
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