For a certain percentage of the country, the best thing that could have happened to them on Election Day 2016 was if they had met someone. At least that’s the idea offered in “A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.,” co-writer (with Samantha Tanner) and director Qasim Basir’s underwritten and often irritating romance that’s like a combative “Before Sunrise.” Forget Republicans versus Democrats; the real conflict is between new loves.
The evening in question begins near a food truck. Cass (Omari Hardwick) is hanging with his friends when he spots Frida (Meagan Good) eating alone and strolls over to chat her up. He invites her to a club, an invitation she initially turns down but then accepts. In the meantime, Cass takes a call from his son, saying that his mom is “screaming at the TV.” He says to the boy, “It doesn’t matter what happens tonight. What did I tell you?...
The evening in question begins near a food truck. Cass (Omari Hardwick) is hanging with his friends when he spots Frida (Meagan Good) eating alone and strolls over to chat her up. He invites her to a club, an invitation she initially turns down but then accepts. In the meantime, Cass takes a call from his son, saying that his mom is “screaming at the TV.” He says to the boy, “It doesn’t matter what happens tonight. What did I tell you?...
- 9/13/2018
- by Tricia Olszewski
- The Wrap
“Shampoo” meets “Medicine for Melancholy” (or “Before Sunrise”) in Qasim Basir’s two-hander “A Boy. A Girl. A Dream” — though with its protagonists largely lost in their own thoughts, this tale of strangers meeting on the night of the 2016 U.S. presidential election substitutes a poetical moodiness for those earlier films’ bantering garrulousness. One of the smoothest enterprises yet among that select group of features shot in a single take, the film succeeds as more than an accomplished technical stunt, even if neither its political nor character dimensions feel quite fully realized. Samuel Goldwyn plans a release for later this year, and timing it close to the midterm elections might be a wise strategy.
Club promoter Cass (Omari Hardwick) and his friend Roc (Jay Ellis) are partying in downtown L.A. with a half-dozen attractive lady friends when Cass’ eye is caught by passer-by Frida aka Free (Meagan Good) as...
Club promoter Cass (Omari Hardwick) and his friend Roc (Jay Ellis) are partying in downtown L.A. with a half-dozen attractive lady friends when Cass’ eye is caught by passer-by Frida aka Free (Meagan Good) as...
- 4/12/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Qasim Basir, the writer-director whose Sundance Film Festival drama A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. starring Omari Hardwick and Meagan Good was just acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films, has signed a rep deal with ICM Partners.
The pic, directed by Basir who co-penned with Samantha Tanner, is set in Los Angeles on Election Night 2016 and centers on a club promoter (Hardwick) who falls for a woman (Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams while he pushes her to discover hers.
Basir’s previous feature film was Destined, the 2016 drama that starred Cory Hardrict as two characters — a rising star in the architectural community and a neighborhood drug dealer — in a story of how even the smallest incident can manifest into a life-changing event.
Basir remains repped by Zero Gravity and attorney Marios Rush.
The pic, directed by Basir who co-penned with Samantha Tanner, is set in Los Angeles on Election Night 2016 and centers on a club promoter (Hardwick) who falls for a woman (Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams while he pushes her to discover hers.
Basir’s previous feature film was Destined, the 2016 drama that starred Cory Hardrict as two characters — a rising star in the architectural community and a neighborhood drug dealer — in a story of how even the smallest incident can manifest into a life-changing event.
Basir remains repped by Zero Gravity and attorney Marios Rush.
- 4/9/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired worldwide rights to A Boy. A Girl. A Dream, the Qasim Basir-directed movie starring Power‘s Omari Hardwick and Meagan Good that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. No release date has been set.
The Los Angeles-set drama penned by Basir and Samantha Tanner revolves around a Los Angeles club promoter (Hardwick) who on the night of the 2016 Presidential election meets a woman (Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams. It’s all set against the backdrop of Donald Trump overtaking Hilary Clinton in the course of the evening.
Jay Ellis, Dijon Talton, Wesley Jonathan and Affion Crockett co-star in the pic, produced by Datari Turner. Jash’d Belcher, Louis Steyn, Tj Steyn, Jamal Chilton, Tim Weatherspoon, Phil Thornton, Good and Hardwick are executive producers.
The deal was negotiated by Samuel Goldwyn’s Meg Longo and CAA, Turner, and attorney...
The Los Angeles-set drama penned by Basir and Samantha Tanner revolves around a Los Angeles club promoter (Hardwick) who on the night of the 2016 Presidential election meets a woman (Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams. It’s all set against the backdrop of Donald Trump overtaking Hilary Clinton in the course of the evening.
Jay Ellis, Dijon Talton, Wesley Jonathan and Affion Crockett co-star in the pic, produced by Datari Turner. Jash’d Belcher, Louis Steyn, Tj Steyn, Jamal Chilton, Tim Weatherspoon, Phil Thornton, Good and Hardwick are executive producers.
The deal was negotiated by Samuel Goldwyn’s Meg Longo and CAA, Turner, and attorney...
- 4/5/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Us election night drama premiered in Sundance.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired worldwide rights to Qasim Basir’s Sundance entry A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.
Basir and Samantha Tanner wrote the film starring Omari Hardwick as a Los Angeles club promoter on the night of the 2016 Us presidential election who meets a woman (Meagan Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams.
Jay Ellis, Dijon Talton, Wesley Jonathan, and Affion Crockett round out the key cast. Datari Turner produced via his Datari Turner Productions. Executive producers on the film are Jash’d Belcher, Louis Steyn, Tj Steyn, Jamal Chilton,...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired worldwide rights to Qasim Basir’s Sundance entry A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.
Basir and Samantha Tanner wrote the film starring Omari Hardwick as a Los Angeles club promoter on the night of the 2016 Us presidential election who meets a woman (Meagan Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams.
Jay Ellis, Dijon Talton, Wesley Jonathan, and Affion Crockett round out the key cast. Datari Turner produced via his Datari Turner Productions. Executive producers on the film are Jash’d Belcher, Louis Steyn, Tj Steyn, Jamal Chilton,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Buffalo 8 has launched a new marketing division with former entertainment publicist Theo Dumont. Dumont’s new division will oversee marketing and publicity campaigns for projects financed by Buffalo 8 and BondIt Media Capital, as well as for clients of the company’s marketing division. Previously with Miller PR and MGM Studios, Dumont launched his own marketing and publicity company Dumont Marketing in 2011. His previous projects and clients included Netflix’s “She’s Gotta Have It,” “A Boy A Girl ADream” co-writer Samantha Tanner, “What Happened to Monday” writer Kerry Williamson and the Spike Lee film “Black Klansmann.” “I’m honored to be teaming up with the Buffalo...
- 3/7/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
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