Trailer:
Array Releasing’s
‘Ayanda’
(Lauded South African
Coming-of-Age Drama)
re-launching, along with what will be its next two releases
(“Ayanda” and “Out of My Hand”), Array Releasing has now
set a Fall 2015 special “double feature theatrical experience”
that will include both pickups, kicking off on November 13 in
Los Angeles and New York City, followed by a national tour to
include Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Seattle, Houston
and Boston.
is set in the vibrant, Afropolitan community of Johannesburg’s
Yeoville, and tells a coming-of-age story of a 21-year-old
“Afro-hipster,” who embarks on a journey of self-discovery,
when she has to fight to save her late father’s legacy – a motor
repair shop – when it is threatened with closure. She’s thrown
into a world of gender stereotypes and abandoned vintage cars
once loved, now in need of a young woman’s re-inventive touch
to bring them back to life again.
with a star-heavy South African cast that includes Ntathi
Moshesh, Kenneth Nkosi, Jafta Mamabola, Thomas Gumede,
Sihle Xaba and veteran star of stage and screen, Vanessa Cooke.
This is director Sara Blecher’s follow-up to her critically-
acclaimed “Otelo Burning” (covered quite extensively on
this blog), which premiered in 2011.
Ahead of “Ayanda’s” November 13 debut, an Array release
trailer for the film is online and embedded below; followed
by upcoming theatrical playdates for the film.
Opening dates for both films are as follows:
Starting 11/13 Los Angeles Downtown Independent
Starting 11/13 New York Imagenation RAW Space
Starting 11/18 New York Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
And here are the one-night tour engagements:
“Ayanda”
11/13 Washington DC Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African Art
11/14 Atlanta, GA Georgia Pacific Auditorium presented by Bronzelens
11/17 Philadelphia, PA African American Museum presented by Reelblack
11/19 Houston, TX Houston Museum of African American Culture
11/22 Montgomery, AL Pure Art Literary Café
11/24 Seattle, WA Ark Lodge Cinema
12/01 Calabash, NC South Brunswick Islands Center
12/05 Boston, MA Reel Life Experience at Arts Emerson
12/05 Greensboro, NC The Artist Bloc