The 21st Annual Urbanworld Film Festival presented by Revolt along with founding partner HBO has just announced its 2017 film lineup . The big event will once again take place in NYC on September 20-24, 2017 at AMC Empire 25 on 234 West 42nd Street. This year will kick off on Thursday Sept 20th as Legendary music executive Irv “Gotti” Lorenzo redefines the music genre with BET’s “Tales”. The scripted anthology series of “song stories,” using lyrics of classic and current hip-hop songs and reimagines them into mini-movies will Make it’s mid-season premiere at the festival . Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen will serve as the thematic backdrop of the episode that will screen at the festival on Thursday, September 21 at 8:00 p.m. Lorenzo will participate in a Q&A immediately following the screening of the episode.

Up next on Friday Directer Sonja Sohn will premiere the thought-provoking HBO documentary “Baltimore Rising,” which will be showcased on Friday, September 22 at 7:45 p.m. Renowned filmmaker Ava DuVernay returns to the festival on Saturday, September 23 at 5:00 p.m. to debut the midseason premiere of “Queen Sugar.” In the contemporary drama on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, the Bordelon siblings struggle to move forward with their lives as they strive to honor the legacy of their father following his unexpected passing. Immediately following the screening, series stars Rutina Wesley, Dawn-Lyen Gardner and Kofi Siriboe will appear in conversation with DuVernay along with legendary director Julie Dash, who joins the second straight season of an all-female directorial team handpicked by DuVernay.

Now if that wasn’t enough, The U.S. premiere of Marshall will close the festival on Saturday, September 23 at 8:00 p.m. Long before he sat on the United States Supreme Court or claimed victory in Brown v. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) was a young rabble-rousing attorney for the NAACP. The film marks the true story of his greatest challenge in those early days – a fight he fought alongside attorney Sam Friedman (Josh Gad), a young lawyer with no experience in criminal law: the case of black chauffeur Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown), accused by his white employer, Eleanor Strubing of sexual assault and attempted murder. Award-winning journalist Tamron Hall will moderate a Q&A with Boseman, Brown, Gad and Academy Award® nominated director Reginald Hudlin immediately following the screening of the film.

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