BURNING SANDS

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BURNING SANDS

Gerard McMurray, Nafessa Williams

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Wednesday, March 08, 2017



Screening followed by a Q&A with Nafessa Williams and Director Gerard McMurray.

Moderated by Elvis Mitchell, KCRW.


SYNOPSIS

Burning Sands takes you on a raw, voyeuristic journey of fraternity pledging through the eyes of one favored pledgee, who is torn between honoring a code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing. 

Burning Sands stars Trevor Jackson (ABC's American Crime) in a breakout performance, along with Alfre Woodard, Steve Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Tosin Cole, DeRon Horton, Imani Hakim and Serayah. 

It is directed and co-written by Gerard McMurray (producer, Fruitvale Station). His feature directorial debut brings an emotional honesty to the classic tale of "rites of passage" and the complicated bonds of brotherhood. The film was produced by Stephanie Allain (Beyond the Lights), Jason Michael Berman (The Birth of a Nation), Reginald Hudlin (Django Unchained) and Mel Jones (Dear White People). Common also executive produced and contributed an original song, "The Cross."