Toussaint Morrison: Radical // Twin Cities Premiere
Friday, May 24, 2024
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Screening
All Ages
$20 (+ taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
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The Parkway presents the Twin Cities premiere of Radical, the latest production from acclaimed writer, director & activist Toussaint Morrison, also a renowned hip-hop musician and former host & producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series, America From Scratch.
Set in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the 2020 events that led to an international uprising against police brutality, Radical tells the story of a group of city residents whose lives and tempers are forever changed.
Written & Directed by Toussaint Morrison
Cinematography by Max Sjoberg
Produced by Toussaint Morrison, Ryan McGuire & Max Sjoberg
After becoming the flashpoint for an international uprising against police brutality, Minneapolis saw protesters fill its streets, demanding justice in a state historically known for its passivity. Although the city isn't on fire anymore, the locals are. With whispers of the mayor plotting to evict an entire city block, vigilantes visiting for revenge on cops, ghosts revisiting their grandparents, and two roommates finding themselves at the center of accidentally disrupting white spaces wherever they go, it's safe to say Minneapolis will never be the same. Today, with tempers still trauma-bonded to 2020, Radical asks how radicalized will the locals let their beloved state of passivity become.
Toussaint Morrison is an Emmy Award winner and an American director whose films and episodic series have addressed themes such as the double consciousness of the African-American identity, being racially ambiguous in predominantly white communities, and living in an underserved and neglected neighborhood. More than a modicum of his influence stems from his childhood growing up in a single-parent household, where Morrison was privy to visiting his mother’s work at many hospitals where she worked as a cancer nurse. Themes of mortality, serving end-of-life experience, and quality of life undoubtedly weave themselves into Morrison’s work, whether he says he's conscious of it or not.