Acclaimed actress Danielle Deadwyler (“Until,” “The Piano Lesson”) is again on the large display screen this summer season with the discharge of R.T. Thorne’s “40 Acres.” The critically praised 2024 TIFF premiere — a survival action-thriller set after a plague has destroyed animal life on Earth — doesn’t open nationally till July 2. However choose audiences can see the film free of charge on the upcoming Juneteenth vacation, June 19, courtesy of distributor Magnolia Photos.
As IndieWire completely pronounces, Magnolia will associate with high radio stations, DJs, and affinity teams in choose U.S. cities to deliver the movie on to native communities in honor of the 160-year anniversary of the top of slavery in the USA. (Juneteenth grew to become a federal vacation in 2021.)
Cities and companions embody Atlanta, GA (Majic 107.5/97.5), Birmingham, AL (WBHK-FM 98.7 KISS), Chicago, IL (Inventive Cypher + Xl Fest), Dallas, TX (Juilliard Black Alumni Affiliation – JBAA), Houston, TX (Prairie View College Alumni), Los Angeles, CA (Radio Free 102.3 KJLH), Nashville, TN (Joe Main from 101.1 The Beat), New Orleans, Los Angeles (BMIKE + Everlasting Seeds), and New York, NY (DJ Sussone). Radio giveaways are underway in Atlanta, Birmingham, and Los Angeles, with different organizations providing outreach as effectively. Free screenings happen at choose Regal, AMC, and Cinemark areas for respective cities, with Los Angeles’ screening going down at The Broad Theater. To get a free ticket, tune into these stations or comply with different organizations’ social and outreach platforms.
Led by govt producer Deadwyler, the movie additionally stars Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O’Connor, Leenah Robinson, Jaeda LeBlanc, Haile Amare, Elizabeth Saunders, and Tyrone Benskin. Thorne (in his function directing debut) wrote the movie with Glenn Taylor.
Right here’s the synopsis of the movie: “In ‘40 Acres,’ after a plague eradicates all animal life, famine spreads throughout the globe, leaving society at battle and in ruins, however the Freemans are surviving — even thriving — on their ancestral farm as long as they dispatch the occasional raiding get together. However what good is surviving the top of the world if it means snuffing out your personal humanity? Former soldier Hailey (Deadwyler) made that selection years in the past, believing that isolation was the one method to defend her household. She and her associate, Galen (Michael Greyeyes), fled the collapse together with their kids, fenced them off from the world and educated them to struggle (and, sure, kill). However now, Hailey’s eldest, Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor), is a younger man, and when he meets a younger girl (Milcania Diaz-Rojas) within the forest past the fence, his want for human contact might place the entire household in jeopardy.”
Different upcoming Magnolia Photos releases embody Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s hit Sundance doc “Folktales,” Amy Berg’s music doc “It’s By no means Over: Jeff Buckley,” and Sundance-winning queer thriller “Plainclothes.” Again in 2023, Magnolia acquired the phrase out on its award-winning trans documentary “Kokomo Metropolis” by providing a pay-it-forward ticket mannequin that allowed audiences to purchase a ticket for another person. The corporate noticed breakout box-office success from Sundance final yr with the discharge of June Squibb-starrer “Thelma.”