The film releases January 15, 2021 in select theaters and Digital Platforms.

The film’s releasing studio, Fox Searchlight, partnered with several organizations to host screenings for their members.

Fox Searchlight Pictures, the  specialty film company behind movies “12 Years A Slave” and more recently the slave drama “The Birth of a Nation” is launching a Nationwide Voter Registration initiative to encourage Americans to register to vote.

“I write to you all devastated,” Parker posted on his Facebook page.

Directed by Nate Parker, the film stars Aunjanue Ellis, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gabrielle Union, Penelope Ann Miller and Jackie Earle Haley and releases in theaters October 17th

“Using my platform as an actor to do these types of powerful movies is what I do,” says Parker.

Movies “Belle”, “Selma” receive multiple nominations.

Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. lead an all-star cast in the high-octane adventure film inspired by the heroics of the first all-African American pilots.