​Griot Theatre Films
presents
a Virtual Film Screening of...

August 16, 2022 - 7:00pm Pacific
Presented with Noise Now and A Noise Within
Filmed in front of a live theatre audience in fall 2021, Griot Theatre brings Blackjack back to Noise Now as a feature film!
​Be the first to see this project’s transformation from stage to screen.
Set in the Blackjack neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, during the early nineties, the film follows Heru as he arrives at the family home of his sometime-girlfriend, Khet. Based on the Isis/Osiris story from Egyptian mythology, Blackjack invokes humor and tragedy to explore the nature of identity and family – both the family into which we are born and the family we choose.
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Everyone who registers will receive the link to view the screening one day prior to the screening.
The live screening will be available only at 7:00 pm PT on Tuesday, August 16.

Content Advisory: Blackjack is recommended for viewers age 16 and older.

 CAST + PRODUCTION
Cast
  • Heru: Wally James
  • Khet: Dami Adeyina
  • Baby-Girl: Chanessa Richa'rd
  • Ken: Rahad Coulter Stevenson
  • Fifty: Antonio D. Charity
  • Mah-Mee: Kelsey Scott
  • Tec: Malik B. El-Amin
Production
  • Producer - Griot Theatre: Malik B. El-Amin
  • Director of Photography: Perdell Richardson
  • Sound Recordist: Jonathan Scott

MALIK B. EL-AMIN TALKS ABOUT BLACKJACK

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WHAT IS GRIOT THEATRE?

​Griot Theatre exists to give voice to untold stories, by creating a forum for women, people of color, and artists with physical disabilities to interpret theatre in new ways.
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PAST WORK

Griot Theatre In Residence
at the Getty Villa

Griot Theatre participated in The Getty Villa's Theatre Lab
in 2016.  The two-week residency culminated in four public performances. Working from the original text of Philoctetes by Sophocles, the work would become The Archer from Malis -
​and go on to a full production in Hollywood.
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Griot Theatre is proud to be a 2013 participant in
Annenberg Alchemy  - a capacity building and leadership development program for Los Angeles-based, small to midsize nonprofit organizations, hosted by the Annenberg Foundation.
CONTACT
Malik B. El-Amin: Artistic Director - [email protected]
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