Faithful Viewer: Biopic about black preacher is toast of Sundance
Nate Parker in ‘Birth of a Nation,’ an independent biopic about a black slave, preacher and rebel-leader was purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for $17.5 million after showing at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday (Jan. 25). Photo by Elliot Davis, courtesy of Sudance Film Festival
(RNS) "The Birth of a Nation," a biopic about the 19th-century black preacher, slave and revolutionary Nat Turner, was picked up by Fox Searchlight Pictures for a record $17.5 million on Tuesday (Jan. 26).
