EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed rising filmmaker D. Smith, whose documentary Kokomo Metropolis will world premiere on the Sundance Movie Pageant later at the moment.
The venture marking Smith’s characteristic directorial debut captures a uncooked, edgy, and uncommon look into the lives of Black tran intercourse staff in New York and Georgia, whereas exploring their relationship with the Black group and themselves. In “sharing reflections on knotty need, far-reaching taboo, identification in labor, and gender’s many meanings,” per the Sundance program, “these girls supply an unapologetic and chopping evaluation of Black tradition and society at massive from a vantage level that’s vibrating with power, intercourse, problem, and hard-earned knowledge.”
Kokomo Metropolis‘s first in-person screening at Sundance will happen at 5:30 p.m. MST tonight at Park Metropolis, Utah’s Egyptian Theatre. The movie will subsequent go on to make its worldwide premiere as a part of the Panorama part of subsequent month’s Berlin Movie Pageant. Smith, Harris Doran and Invoice Butler produced the pic, with Hillman Grad’s Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani having simply come aboard as exec producers, sharing that credit score with Stacy Barthe and William Melillo.
Smith can also be a two-time Grammy Award-nominated report producer, singer and songwriter who produced and is featured on “Shoot Me Down” from Lil Wayne’s 8x platinum album Tha Carter III. She additionally wrote and produced the #1 Billboard dance single “Love Your self” by Billy Porter and made historical past with VH1’s Love & Hip Hop, as the primary trans girl forged on a primetime unscripted sequence.
Smith continues to be managed by Business Leisure.
