Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and NAACP Image Award winner Alfre Woodard has a new film opening the New Voices in Black Cinema festival. Ben Bowman’s Knucklehead, an indie drama starring Woodard and Gbenga Akinnagbe (Modern Missionary [2006] at The Intiman Theatre, The Thin Place [2010] in the NYC Fringe Festival) as a dysfunctional mother-son pair screens on Thursday, March 26th in Brooklyn.
When his brother is shot, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe, The Wire) is left without a protector in Brooklyn’s housing projects. Now under the control of his abusive mother (Alfre Woodard, 12 Years A Slave) he must take his future into his own hands. Langston strives for independence from his prior life, from his mother, and from his fractured mind.


Alfre’s film and television career is vast and diverse. She won her Screen Actors Guild Award in 1995 for her work in the film version of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.
Knucklehead screens Thursday, March 26th at the Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas. To purchase tickets and get more information, CLICK HERE.