PREVIEW: Master (15 TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

Regina Hall (Support the Girls), Zoe Renee (Jinn), Amber Gray (The Weekend), Ella Hunt (Anna and the Apocalypse), Talia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Talia Balsam (The Climb), Bruce Altman (Bride Wars)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Mariama Diallo (film debut), director, writer; Joshua Astrachan (Paterson), Brad Becker-Parton (Beach Rats) and Andrea Roa (It Comes at Night), producers; Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman), composer; Charlotte Hornsby (Once Upon a River), cinematographer; Jennifer Lee (The Skeleton Twins) and Maya Maffioli (Rocks), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

At Ancaster’s, a prestigious and predominantly-white New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, three African-American women – high-ranking academic Gail (Hall), struggling professor Liv (Gray) and freshman student Jasmine (Renee) – experience discomfort as they attempt to fit in, while also encountering terrifying manifestations of the school’s disturbing past…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

After impressing audiences at Sundance back in January, writer-director Mariama Diallo’s chilling and provocative debut feature now arrives for everyone to witness and become seriously disturbed by.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 18TH MARCH 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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