Written and directed by Zandashé Brown, and co-starring Idella Johnson, Rhonda Johnson Dents, and Lance Nichols, the haunting and spiritually evocative supernatural thriller Benediction turns a desperate and grieving woman's search for emotional healing at a Black Baptist church service into an incredibly surreal experience that tests both her faith and her willingness to take her life in a challenging direction that she never imagined before.
Johnson plays the troubled visitor, Rosalee, while Nichols plays the church's charismatic pastor and Dents portrays the mysterious churchgoer who lures Rosalee into an extraordinary opportunity to release her agony for good.
Originally produced in 2022, and developed two years earlier at the Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program, Benediction was shown this past August at the first-ever Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival, and on this week's show I'm honored to welcome Zandashé to talk about how this remarkable movie was created.
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