Will Catlett is ready to change the world. The A Thousand and One actor is the founder of Catlett Academy, a community of industry creatives who band together to perfect their craft and collaborate on ideas and projects. “We help…
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‘A Thousand and One’ Star Teyana Taylor on Uplifting the Invisible Black Woman
A Thousand and One‘s heroine Inez is not the young, Black woman Hollywood favors. She’s not super gangster, a gold digger, drugged out, promiscuous, or an absentee mother. Instead, she’s determined to “go to war” for her kid, doing whatever…
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‘A Thousand and One’ Filmmaker A.V. Rockwell on Celebrating Black Women, Tackling Gentrification, and Casting Teyana Taylor as Her Leading Lady
“I just wanted to honor us, honor the Black women in my life,” A Thousand and One writer/director A.V. Rockwell shares. And that energy is evident in every frame of her debut feature film about Inez, a young mother in 1990s, early…
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Teyana Taylor and Will Catlett Reflect on Their Award-Winning Film ‘A Thousand and One’
Teyana Taylor, EBONY’s April 2022 EBONY cover star, is living out her wildest big screen dreams. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, her film A Thousand and One—directed by a Black woman filmmaker A.V. Rockwell—won the Grand Jury Prize for the…
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