This February, FilmRise celebrates Black History Month with over 600 hours of content on their free Black TV App that highlights the talents of black creators and black stars.
FilmRise recently acquired a catalog from Maverick Entertainment Group, boasting over 300 titles from predominantly black creators and spanning genres including crime thrillers, rom-coms, faith-based films, genre films and much more.
In addition, FilmRise is putting their library of film titles that celebrate moments in Black history – as well as pop culture – front and center. These titles include Oscar winners Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek in THE LONG WALK HOME, an NAACP Image Award-winning period piece about the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr. And, just for fun, there’s also the SISTER, SISTER-famous Mowry siblings in teen comedy SEVENTEEN AGAIN popularized on the Disney Channel.
Another highlight is the Ice-T-hosted “The Mediator with Ice-T,” in which Ice-T settles civil disputes after hearing both parties and consulting with experts.
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Maverick Entertainment Group Library
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Maverick Entertainment Group (MEG) consistently releases niche genre films that major studios often overlook. These genres include urban (inspirational, action, comedy), Latino, Horror and LGBT titles. Maverick has released over 800 films over the past 22 years and currently controls the world's largest library of African American feature length films.
Featured Titles:
NEW YEAR NEW US (Dir. Nina Stakz) While Bakari is focused on his career, his wife Imani believes it's time to start a family. They began to realize there is nothing more important in love than compromise
QUEEN PIN (Dir. Gin X) The drug game is tough, so Rhanni recruits a solid team. But Rhanni soon discovers that she's not the only game in town.
RIDE SWEET DIE LOW (Dir. Chris W. Hill) Following the tragic murder of their sister, a band of female gunslingers prepare to avenge the death by taking down her killers.
SUNDAY MORNING RAPTURE (Dir. William Sheals) As a group of church-goers struggles with their every day troubles and vices, they come to discover that they aren't ready to face the forthcoming rapture.
Black History Month Film Highlights
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Titles Include:
BLACK FOX (Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern) A former slave affects peace between Native American tribes and homesteaders in 1860s around western Texas. Starring Tony Todd, Christopher Reeve.
LIFE OF A KING (Dir. Jake Goldberger) Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C. Starring Cuba Gooding, Jr.
THE LONG WALK HOME (Dir. Richard Pearce) Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King. Starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek.
SEVENTEEN AGAIN (Dir. Jeffrey W. Byrd) While divorced and bickering grandparents watch their grandchildren, a lab experiment gone awry transforms the elders into teenagers again. Starring Tamara Mowry, Tia Mowry, Tahj Mowry.
THE MEDIATOR WITH ICE-T
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Ice-T hosts a legal show in which he settles civil disputes after hearing both parties and consulting with experts.
About FilmRise
FilmRise is a Brooklyn-based film and television studio and operator of the FilmRise Streaming Network, the world’s largest independently owned portfolio of ad-supported streaming apps and FAST channels. Founded in 2012 by veteran producers and financiers Danny Fisher, Jack Fisher and Alan Klingenstein, FilmRise is a recognized market leader and innovator at the forefront of analytics-led curation and distribution. The company offers over 40,000 licensed and originally produced scripted and unscripted feature films and television episodes across all genres, including Gordon Ramsay’s HELL'S KITCHEN and KITCHEN NIGHTMARES; Carsey-Werner’s beloved sitcom 3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN; the Robert Stack-hosted true crime series UNSOLVED MYSTERIES; high-tech documentary crime series like FORENSIC FILES; American classic TV series THE RIFLEMAN, THAT GIRL and THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW; long-standing British favorites such as PEEP SHOW, SHAMELESS, MIRANDA, MIDSOMER MURDERS and DOC MARTIN; as well as popular family series HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN and HEARTLAND. The company acquires and distributes an impressive movie library of award-winning, critically acclaimed feature films and documentaries, including the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary winner and three-time 2021 Emmy nominee REWIND; true crime feature thriller MY FRIEND DAHMER starring Ross Lynch and Anne Heche; two-time 2020 Spirit Award-nominated drama DRIVEWAYS, starring Hong Chau and Brian Dennehy; SURGE, the 2020 Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award winner starring Ben Whishaw; and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning feature film THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST starring Chloë Grace Moretz. FilmRise Original productions include true crime series BLOODLINE DETECTIVES HOSTED BY NANCY GRACE and MEET, MARRY, MURDER HOSTED BY MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG, conflict resolution show THE MEDIATOR WITH ICE-T as well as the PBS documentary series ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS. For more info, go to filmrise.com.
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