Exclusive: Jada Keche (Reasonable Doubt), Lionel Johnson Jr. (Darwin) and Carolyn Michelle Smith (Familiar Touch) have attached to star in Lowndes County, the debut narrative feature of award-winning artist Kevin Jerome Everson.
Just recently wrapping production in Columbus, Mississippi, the film is set in rural Mississippi in 1959, five years after Brown v. Board of Education and five years before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. A year of deep uncertainty. Penned by Everson and playwright Talaya Delaney, and based on the experiences of Everson’s father and uncle as teenage bus drivers in Columbus, Mississippi in the 1950s, the story centers on Borne (Keche), a brave, resourceful African-American teenager and her older brother Gago (Johnson Jr.), who must fight against a system determined to break them, and use their daring to fix their school bus after it is vandalized. To achieve their dreams, and ensure their safe passage to school, they turn to the strength,...
Just recently wrapping production in Columbus, Mississippi, the film is set in rural Mississippi in 1959, five years after Brown v. Board of Education and five years before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. A year of deep uncertainty. Penned by Everson and playwright Talaya Delaney, and based on the experiences of Everson’s father and uncle as teenage bus drivers in Columbus, Mississippi in the 1950s, the story centers on Borne (Keche), a brave, resourceful African-American teenager and her older brother Gago (Johnson Jr.), who must fight against a system determined to break them, and use their daring to fix their school bus after it is vandalized. To achieve their dreams, and ensure their safe passage to school, they turn to the strength,...
- 19/08/2025
- por Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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