“Premature” is the provocative sophomore feature from Rashaad Ernesto Green (“Gun Hill Road”), headlined by a breakthrough performance by Zora Howard, who co-wrote the screenplay with Green.
Adapted from their award-winning 2008 short of the same name, the coming-of-age drama serves as both an ode to a vanishing piece of New York City and a universal story of love among black youth.“We asked ourselves what we felt was missing in present-day black cinema, and we felt there was an overabundance of black films with narratives driven by themes of black victimization, black fear, and black pain,” Green said.
“Although we understood the impulse to explore these narratives, we decided instead to explore black life and black love.
In the current cinematic climate, we viewed simply telling a young black love story as a radical act.”They trusted their instincts and culled from their own life experiences as black Harlemites who
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