TV One’s 2016 ABFF Screenplay Competition winner N’zuri Za Austin will debut her original film “Tale of a Script” at next year’s festival tentatively set for Sunday, June 18. The film will then also premiere on TV One in summer 2017. In “Tale of a Script,” Brandon is a script reader who shares a collection of short stories he found in a pile of “unreads” that narrate the dangers of social networking. The stories, each telling of the dangers that await us behind the keystroke of our computer screens, are a puzzle piece that will lead us on a journey of deceit.
TV One began its sponsorship of the ABFF TV One Screenplay Competition in 2015 with the debut of “Runaway Island” (Lorraine Touissant, Aisha Hinds, Thomas Q. Jones, A. Russell Andrews, Erica Tazel), written by the 2014 winner Christopher Brandt. This year, the network premiered “Bad Dad Rehab,” an original film highlighting the ups and downs of parenthood by scriptwriter and 2015 winner Keronda “Kiki McKnight.” The film, which centers around four men in denial of their poor parenting skills features, featured a star-studded cast––Malik Yoba, Wesley Jonathan, Robert Ri’chard, Rob Riley, Rick Gonzalez and Kandi Burruss. “Bad Dad Rehab, which was also directed by Carl Seaton, recently received a 2017 NAACP Image Awards nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television).
For more information about TV One’s participation at the 22nd American Black Film Festival, visit the network’s website at www.tvone.tv/tvoneatabff. Budding writers may also submit their screenplays for consideration by logging onto www.tvone.tv/screenplay-competition-abff/.
TV One viewers are encouraged to join the conversation by connecting via social media on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (@tvonetv) using the hash tag #TVOneAtABFF.
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