THE BIRTH OF THE NATION

Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself and his fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom. The film is based on true events.

NATE PARKER

Nate Parker (born in 1979) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and musical performer. He began his career as an actor, in 2006, with a hip-hop take on Romeo and Juliet, named Rome and Jewel. In 2012, Parker directed a short film called #AmeriCAN, which featured La La Anthony and is a thought piece about growing up as a young black person in a racially-divided America. As his next project, Parker worked for over seven years on making a film based on the life of Nat Turner. In 2014, he announced that the film would be called The Birth of a Nation, in an ironic appropriation of the infamously racist 1915 film of the same name. In addition to writing and directing, Parker cast himself as Turner.