Bron President Brenda Gilbert & Filmmaker & Spike Lee Collaborator Ernest Dickerson To Be Feted At LA’s Micheaux Film Festival; Lineup Revealed
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Next month’s Micheaux Film Festival in LA will honor Bron co-founder and President Brenda Gilbert with the Oscar Micheaux Trailblazer of Excellence Award and filmmaker and Spike Lee collaborator Ernest Dickerson with the Michael Ajakwe Pioneer of Influence Award.The festival, which spotlights BIPOC creators, will run July 11-17 at the Regal Cinemas Live LA, Downtown.This year’s festival will include Ernest Dickerson’s Double Play and a career Q&A with the filmmaker; Birdwatching, starring Amanda Seyfried; Artistic, starring former NFL star Marshawn Lynch; Ghost Girl with Jamie Neuman; Run Nixon starring Lil Fizz; and Launch at Paradise starring Catherine Curtin.
As we previously revealed, the event’s actor ambassadors will be Sharon Lawrence and Anthony Anderson.Gilbert is the co-founder and president of Vancouver-based film powerhouse Bron Studios, which has executive-produced and co-financed 30 Oscar nominated movies.
Titles include The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel, Judas and the Black Messiah, Bombshell, the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson, Oscar winner Joker, Candyman, Kevin Hart’s Fatherhood, Greyhound with Tom Hanks, and three Denzel Washington titles: Fences, Roman J.
Israel, Esq. and A Journal for Jordan.Ernest Dickerson is known as a filmmaker and a frequent collaborator with peer and colleague Spike Lee.
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