EXCLUSIVE: Indican Pictures has acquired North American rights for Boaz Yakin’s dance, rap and slam poetry-led romance Once Again (For The Very First Time) and will start rolling it out theatrically across the U.S.
in October. Billed as a break-dance, hip-hop supernatural fantasy, the movie stars Jeroboam Bozeman as DeRay, a legendary rapper and convicted killer who falls through the sky to land outside the door of Naima (Mecca Verdell), a slam poetess who is the love of his life.
The lovers are both survivors of trauma and guilt, who channel their pain into their art against the backdrop of the war zone of the New York streets.
They wrestle with their love in an emotional and psychological space that is out of place and out of time. The dance sequences were choreographed by Rennie Harris and the score was written by Marcus Norris (Honk For Jesus.
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