Status
Completed
Type
Cinereach-Supported Production
Year
2019
Production
Key Cast
Director
Tayarisha Poe
Producers
Lauren McBride, Drew Houpt, Lucas Joaquin
Tayarisha Poe (Writer, Director) is a storyteller from West Philly who believes that all stories are inherently multi-sensory and multi-dimensional, and thus should be told that way. She was chosen as one of the 25 New Faces by Filmmaker Magazine in 2015, and in 2016 she received the Sundance Institute's Knight Foundation Fellowship. In 2017 she was selected for the January Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, and the June Sundance Director's Lab. She is a 2017 Pew Fellow.
Tayarisha Poe (Writer, Director) is a storyteller from West Philly who believes that all stories are inherently multi-sensory and multi-dimensional, and thus should be told that way. She was chosen as one of the 25 New Faces by Filmmaker Magazine in 2015, and in 2016 she received the Sundance Institute's Knight Foundation Fellowship. In 2017 she was selected for the January Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, and the June Sundance Director's Lab. She is a 2017 Pew Fellow.
Five factions run the underground life of the prestigious Haldwell boarding school. At the head of the most powerful faction - THE SPADES - sits Selah Summers. By turns charming and callous, she chooses whom to keep close and whom to cut loose, walking the fine line between being feared and loved.
Cinereach co-financed the production of Selah & The Spades alongside other Catalyst investors. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and was distributed by Amazon Studios.
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