A feature about the US activist Rosa Parks is making its way to theaters nationally.
According to Deadline, the filmmakers — Winter State Entertainment are fast-tracking the project, which means we might finally get to watch a feature biopic on the big screen about the iconic civil rights activist.
The biopic boasts the perfect title — Rosa. It is set to start filming in 2019. The film will focus on the 24-hour period following Parks’ unforgettable Montgomery, Alabama arrest on December 1, 1955. Charlie Kessler and Hamid Toabpour scripted the film.
“While most Americans have heard of Rosa Parks, the details of what happened that on the night she was arrested, and her lifetime of political courage and activism, are largely unknown,” said Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, and the consulting producer on the project. “The real story of Rosa Parks is far different, and even more inspiring and relevant for our times than the tale most children learn in school.”
“Rosa Parks is an inspiration, and our goal is to be able to use this project to raise awareness for the Rosa and Raymond Park Institute for Self Development. Ms. Parks did not have any children, so her institute is her legacy,” added Kessler.
