“Lovecraft Country” and “His House” lead Wunmi Mosaku, a BAFTA award winner, has been cast in Gabe Klinger’s fact-based drama “Dreyana Grooms.”
The film focuses on 16-year-old Dreyana Grooms, who as a young teenager was implicated in a fatal shooting in Chicago during her summer break from school. The event radically altered the course of her young adult life.
Grooms and Klinger co-scripted the project, which is being presented this coming week at the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market. The film is produced by CogniCine, Black Monarch Entertainment and Les Films Hatari.
Mosaku, a BAFTA winner for her role in the BBC’s “Damiola, Our Loved Boy,” is currently nominated for a 2021 Critics’ Choice Award for her portrayal of Ruby Baptiste in HBO’s horror drama series “Lovecraft Country,” and a British Independent Film Award for her performance in Remi Weekes’s Netflix horror thriller “His House.
The film focuses on 16-year-old Dreyana Grooms, who as a young teenager was implicated in a fatal shooting in Chicago during her summer break from school. The event radically altered the course of her young adult life.
Grooms and Klinger co-scripted the project, which is being presented this coming week at the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market. The film is produced by CogniCine, Black Monarch Entertainment and Les Films Hatari.
Mosaku, a BAFTA winner for her role in the BBC’s “Damiola, Our Loved Boy,” is currently nominated for a 2021 Critics’ Choice Award for her portrayal of Ruby Baptiste in HBO’s horror drama series “Lovecraft Country,” and a British Independent Film Award for her performance in Remi Weekes’s Netflix horror thriller “His House.
- 2/1/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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