Gravitas Ventures Acquires Spike Lee’s ‘Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus’
Gravitas Ventures acquired North American rights to Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus. Pic, which stars Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams, reinterprets Bill Gunn’s 1973 Ganja & Hess. The movie got off the ground through Kickstarter funding and premiered at the American Black Film Festival. Gravitas will release the film theatrically and on video on demand on February 13, 2015.
“Making Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus is one of my most gratifying experiences in my body of work,” Lee said in a statement. “The support and love we got raising the money through Kickstarter is a true blessing. I thank everyone who brought this New Spike Lee Joint to life.”
Storyline involves an addiction to blood that once doomed a long-forgotten ancient African tribe. When Dr. Hess Green (Williams) is introduced to a mysteriously cursed artifact by an art curator, Lafayette Hightower (Elvis Nolasco), he is uncontrollably drawn into a...
“Making Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus is one of my most gratifying experiences in my body of work,” Lee said in a statement. “The support and love we got raising the money through Kickstarter is a true blessing. I thank everyone who brought this New Spike Lee Joint to life.”
Storyline involves an addiction to blood that once doomed a long-forgotten ancient African tribe. When Dr. Hess Green (Williams) is introduced to a mysteriously cursed artifact by an art curator, Lafayette Hightower (Elvis Nolasco), he is uncontrollably drawn into a...
- 11/19/2014
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