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‘A BOY. A GIRL. A DREAM,’ STARRING OMARI HARDWICK, MEAGAN GOOD AND JAY ELLIS TO SCREEN AT THE SAN FRANCISCO FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 10 & 13TH

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Director Qasim Basir and producer Datari Turner to attend
(LOS ANGELES) – April 4, 2018 – Datari Turner Productions has announced that A Boy. A Girl. A Dream – the critically-acclaimed one-take film that premiered at Sundance in January – will screen at the 2018 San Francisco Film Festival (SFFILM) on Tuesday, April 10 at 6:00pm and
Friday, April 13 at 9:00pm.
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Qasim Basir

Director Qasim Basir and producerDatari Turner will attend on individual nights and participate in a Q&A talk-back (Turner on 4/10 and Basir on 4/13). Tickets can be purchased online here.

Starring Omari Hardwick (Starz’ “Power”), Meagan Good (Hulu’s upcoming “Foxy Brown”), Jay Ellis (HBO’s “Insecure”), and Kenya Barris (ABC’s “black-ish”)A Boy. A Girl. A Dream is set on the night of the 2016 Presidential election, when “Cass” (Hardwick), an L.A. club promoter, takes a thrilling and emotional journey with “Free” (Good), a Midwestern visitor. She challenges him to revisit his broken dreams – while he pushes her to discover hers.
Watch a clip from the film herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrZrGG1d8U
Written by Basir and Samantha Turner, A BOY. A GIRL. A DREAM was produced by Datari Turner through his Production Banner Datari Turner Productions. Executive producers on the film are Jash’d Kambui Belcher, Louis Steyn, TJ Steyn, Jamal Chilton, Tim Weatherspoon, Phil Thornton,Meagan Good, and Omari Hardwick. Follow the film on Instagram at @boygirldream_movie and Facebook.com/boygirldream.

The 2018 SFFILM Festival runs April 4-17 at venues throughout the Bay Area. Visit sffilm.org for more information.

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Frankie 5Ø3 Turns A Love Song Into Something That Actually Feels Real

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Love songs are easy to write and hard to believe. Frankie 5Ø3 gets that, and “R0LL3RC0AST3R” lands because it sounds lived-in, not manufactured.

Pulled from UN P0C0 EM0, the track avoids the usual clichés by keeping its focus on the details. The writing came from a trip to Saint George Island, with long hours spent on a dock and a melody forming somewhere between the guitar and the view. You can hear that setting in the final version. It feels open, calm, and personal.

Musically, it leans into warmth. Acoustic guitar carries the emotional weight, while electric guitar and keys give it texture without pulling attention away from the message. Nothing is fighting for space. Everything points back to the feeling.

That feeling is straightforward: being so in love that language stops cooperating. Frankie writes for that exact moment, when someone changes your world and suddenly every normal sentence feels too small.

What makes “R0LL3RC0AST3R” memorable is that it trusts the emotion instead of trying to oversell it. It sounds like someone saying what they mean, and that still goes a long way.

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