Brooke Obie’s Directorial Feature Documentary ABANITU To Premiere At Essence Fest 2024
Filmmaker Brooke C. Obie’s feature film directorial debut, ABANITU: A FAMILY DOCUMENTARY, is an official selection at the 2024 Essence Film Festival where it will have its world premiere. A part of the 30th annual Essence Festival of Arts and Culture, the film festival will take place in New Orleans, LA at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, July 5-7, 2024. The schedule for the festival has not yet been released; stay tuned for the specifics on the ABANITU screening date and time.
About ABANITU: A FAMILY DOCUMENTARY
In 1906, an unmarried, 36-year-old Black mother of 5 and daughter of an enslaved woman, bought 5 acres of land in Person County, NC, with $50 she’d saved from keeping house. That land would become a 150-acre farm -the first Black-owned USDA certified organic farm in Person County, NC- and start a legacy of health and healing from racial and intergenerational trauma for her descendants more than a century later. This is their story.
About Brooke C. Obie
Brooke C. Obie, JD, MFA, is a filmmaker, film/TV screenwriter, award-winning author of the novel BOOK OF ADDIS, award-winning entertainment journalist and critic. In addition to ABANITU, Brooke wrote and directed the narrative short GOD IS A FREQUENCY, which has also received festival recognition.
