Tribeca 2016 Preview: Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in ‘Little Boxes’Posted in Arts, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2016-04-02 20:44Z by Steven |
Tribeca 2016 Preview: Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in ‘Little Boxes’
Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora
2016-03-31
 Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in “Little Boxes“ |
The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in a couple of weeks, running from April 13-24 in New York City.
Leading up to the event, I’ll highlight a few films or note, given this blog’s specific interests, starting with this one…
Directed by Rob Meyer, written by Annie J Howell, and executive produced by Cary Fukunaga, the drama feature “Little Boxes” stars Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey, Oona Laurence, Janeane Garofalo, and Christine Taylor.
Synopsis: It’s the summer before 6th grade, and Clark (Armani Jackson) is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act “more black,” he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina (Nelsan Ellis and Melanie Lynskey) also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context…
Read the entire article here.