Jerico - Closing Night Film

Doors Open at 6:00 pm
Film starts at 7:00 pm
USA, 2016, Seckeita Lewis
How does one make a comedy about the Jim Crow South? Somehow the husband and wife indie filmmaking team of Brandon (screenwriter/lead actor) and Seckeita Lewis (director) have pulled it off. Set in a rural Mississippi town on the morning of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the film follows two African American best friends who apply for a promotion at the printing company where they work. But their gesture is rebuffed by those who don’t do change as well as they do, and pretty soon they’re running for their lives from a lynch mob and much more. With Irma P. Hall, Geroge Wallace, JoMarie Payton (aka Harriett Winslow from Family Matters) and Numa Perrier. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 98 min.

Director: Seckeita Lewis
Writers: Brandon Lewis
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