ABOUT THE FILM
LONG SYNOPSIS
The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda.
The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets and provides a seat at the kitchen table as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.
Writers Yoruba Richen, Erin Casper
Producers Yoruba Richen, Yvonne Welbon
Co-Producer Angela Tucker
Associate Producers Samantha Stark, Veena Rao
Editors Erin Casper, Ali Muney
Cinematographers Nadia Hallgren, Garland McLaurin
Cast Sharon Lettman-Hicks, Karess Taylor-Hughes, Samantha Master, Pastor Derek McCoy, Rev. Delman Coates, Anthony Charles Williams II
FESTIVALS
2013: Los Angeles Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival (New York), AFI Docs (formerly Silverdocs), Frameline
AWARDS
Audience Award for Best Feature (AFI Docs); Jury Prize, Best Documentary (Urbanworld NYC), Audience Award (Frameline)
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World
EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Blu-Ray, DVD
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