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Janus Sets Theatrical Release For 4K Restoration Of Jessie Maple’s Debut Feature ‘Will’
Theatrical screenings of Will are set to begin on June 13 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
With the support of his wife (Loretta Devine, making her screen debut), Will (Adedunyo) finds a renewed sense of purpose in the community while mentoring a streetwise 12-year-old (Robert Dean) and coaching a local young women’s basketball team. Maple, who honed her craft first working on news coverage for CBS and NBC, and was one of the first Black women to join the cinematographers union in New York, died in 2023 at age 86. The Will 4K restoration has received limited screenings at MoMA in New York, the Los Angeles Festival of Movies, and was recently given an international premiere at the BFI in London through the buzzy Black Debutantes series programmed by curator Rógan Graham.
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