Gabourey Sidibe To Make Feature Directorial Debut With Thriller ‘Pale Horse’
Gabourey Sidibe is making her feature debut with psychological thriller Pale Horse, which is scheduled to shoot this fall https://t.co/gjBAsWQWoj Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 6, 2021
As if being an Oscar nominated actor and an author wasn t enough, Gabourey Sidibe is also adding film director to her resume.
Written by Asabi Lee and Paul Hart-Wilden (Wolf Town), and based on a story by Chris Courtney Martin (The Last Laugh), Pale Horse centres around Naia, a highly regarded but reclusive African-American YA author living with MS. Naia finds herself enveloped in a dark mystery when she gives shelter to a man who escaped captivity with her long-lost brother.
Gabourey Sidibe set to make directorial debut
NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 10: Actress Gabourey Sidibe attends the opening night of The Color Purple at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on December 10, 2015 in New York, New York. Photo by Raymond Hagans/Steed Media Service
Actress Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe is ready to take her onscreen talents behind-the-scenes as she gears for her directorial debut in the upcoming psychological thriller
Pale Horse.
Pale Horse is set in the Pacific Northwest and follows Naia, an esteemed, yet reclusive African American YA book author who is living with multiple sclerosis. When Naia decides to shelter the man who escaped captivity with her long-missing brother, she finds herself caught up in a diabolical mystery.
Shaka King
The Judas and the Black Messiah filmmaker, alongside past Spirit Award winners Mel Eslyn and Nanfu Wangalso, also revealed the winners of three cash grants on Tuesday morning.
Judas and the Black Messiah writer-director Shaka King has been named honorary chair at the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
The news comes a day after
Judas and the Black Messiah nabbed six Oscar nominations, including a best original screenplay nom for King. He also won Film Independent s Someone to Watch Award in 2014 for the film
Newlyweeds. Shaka King electrified audiences this year with his tour de force film
Judas and the Black Messiah. As a director who won the Someone to Watch Award only a few years ago, we can t think of a better person to serve as our Honorary Chair at this year s Spirit Awards, Film Independent president Josh Welsh said.