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Fast Color {Opening Night Film, New York Premiere}

Miller Theatre

  • Director: Julia Hart
  • Writers: Julia Hart, Jordan Horowitz
  • Type: Features
  • Year: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Length: 100 min
  • Screening: Feb 28 07:00 PM

This fantasy superhero re-mix stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a hero forced to run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after abandoning her family, the only place she has left to hide is home. Lorraine Toussaint and David Strathairn co-star.

Q&A with director/writer Julia Hart star Lorraine Toussaint and Rebecca Theodore-Vachon to follow the screening

Director Bio: Julia Hart is a writer and director, known for Fast Color, and Miss Stevens. She also wrote The Keeping Room. Her next film will be Stargirl. After eight years of teaching high school students, Hart quit her job to pursue screenwriting. Miss Stevens was her directorial debut and was nominated for the Grand Jury Award and Gamechanger Award at South by Southwest in 2016. Fast Color is Hart’s most recent completed film and will be released in 2019.

Rebecca Theodore-Vachon is a film and tv critic who focuses on race, gender and representation in Hollywood. She was the entertainment columnist at TheUrbanDaily.com and has contributed to NYTimes.com, RogerEbert.com, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company and Vulture.com. In 2017 she was a featured speaker for Google Talks at the Miami Film Festival and currently hosts Oscar Q&A panels for the Academy of Motion Pictures And Sciences. She is also the creator of “The Spectrum Lounge” – a podcast that highlights creatives of color in Hollywood and pop culture.

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