*”Cinnamon” a Tubi original film starring the legendary Pam Grier, Damon Wayans, and Hailey Kilgore – has been selected to have its worldwide premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival!
The film follows a struggling small-town gas station attendant, Jodi (Tony Nominee Kilgore, “Power Book III: Raising Kanan”) is an aspiring and truly gifted singer.
Frustrated and stuck in a dead-end job with her dreams slipping away, Jodi meets a young hustler who quickly becomes her fiercely devoted boyfriend (David Iacono, “The Summer I Turned Pretty”).
Desperate for a new life and eager to jumpstart Jodi’s singing career, they decide to commit a crime together, but their plan quickly goes sideways. Thinking they have made it through the worst of it, Jodi and Eddie have unknowingly unleashed a spiraling chain of events that quickly makes them the target of a ruthless family-run crime organization, with Jodi’s boss Wally (Wayans, “Lethal Weapon”) at the center.
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Mama (Grier, “Foxy Brown”) and her son James (Jeremie Harris, “Legion”) will stop at nothing to find out what went wrong. As James begins to uncover the truth, no one is safe and secrets begin to be revealed leading to a deadly showdown where Jodi and Eddie must answer for their crime.
“Cinnamon” also stars David Iacono, “The Summer I Turned Pretty” and is the inaugural project filmed under Village Roadshow Pictures’ Black Noir Cinema banner, co-founded by NBA all-star Kevin Garnett and written, directed and executive produced by Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr. Slated for release on Tubi to its 33+ million members in Summer 2023.
Oz Scott serves as producer, alongside executive producers Michael D. Jones and Kevin Garnett, Brian Bennett and Mike Marangu for Content Cartel.
“Cinnamon” is presented by Village Roadshow Pictures under their Black Noir Cinema banner, in association with FOX Entertainment Studios.
