The first trailer for Cinnamon, starring Hailey Kilgore, David Iacono, Damon Wayans and Pam Grier.
It is the first feature project from Village Roadshow Productions’s Black Noir Cinema banner, which was co-founded by Kevin Garnett. It is produced in association with FOX Entertainment Studios.
The film was written, directed, and executive produced by Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr.
It will have its worldwide premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival in June and will hit Tubi in summer 2023.
Here’s the official synopsis:
A struggling small-town gas station attendant, Jodi (Kilgore) is an aspiring and truly gifted singer. Frustrated and stuck in a dead-end job with her dreams slipping away, Jodi meets a young hustler who quickly becomes her fiercely devoted boyfriend (Iacono). Desperate for a new life and eager to jumpstart Jodi’s singing career, they decide to commit a crime together, but their plan quickly goes sideways. Thinking they have made it through the worst of it, Jodi and Eddie have unknowingly unleashed a spiraling chain of events that quickly makes them the target of a ruthless family run crime organization, with Jodi’s boss Wally (Wayans) at the center. Mama (Grier) and her son James (Jeremie Harris) will stop at nothing to find out what went wrong. As James begins to uncover the truth, no one is safe and secrets begin to be revealed leading to a deadly showdown where Jodi and Eddie must answer for their crime.
For Content Cartel, Oz Scott is a producer, with executive producers including Mike Marangu, Brian Bennett, Michael D. Jones and Kevin Garnett.
Watch the trailer below:
