CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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CINEHUNCH / COMING ATTRACTIONS

The Forty-Year-Old Version — the trailer.

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

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Its striking black-and-white Brooklyn imagery, direct-address energy, and insistence on a Black artist’s autonomy make it a clear visual and spiritual companion to The Forty-Year-Old Version.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Radha Blank

Radha

Peter Y. Kim

Archie

Oswin Benjamin

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Imani Lewis

Imani Lewis

Elaine

Haskiri Velazquez

Haskiri Velazquez

Rosa

Antonio Ortiz

Waldo

T.J. Atoms

T.J. Atoms

Kamal

Reed Birney

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Josh Whitman