Nate Parker

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Three years ago, filmmaker Nate Parker came under scrutiny for a rape allegation from his college days that essentially derailed the release of his Nat Turner film “The Birth of a Nation.” Now, with a new film about police brutality debuting at the Venice Film International Film Festival, he is apologizing […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Nate Parker’s attempted comeback will begin at the Venice Film Festival with the premiere of his first film since a rape allegation from Parker’s past derailed the release of his Nat Turner biopic “The Birth of a Nation.” The Italian festival announced Wednesday that Parker’s “American Skin” will debut in its […]

Actor and director Nate Parker is back directing a new digital series called Baseline. Atlanta Black Star reports, after having his directorial début of his film Birth Of A Nation crushed by rape allegations back in 2016, Parker is back writing and directing. Baseline is about a family living in inner city Los Angeles that’s fighting to protect their aspiring […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was another sunny day Thursday for Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical “La La Land” and Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age tale “Moonlight” on the long journey to the Oscars. After winning the top film awards at the Golden Globes, Chazelle and Jenkins both scored their first nomination for a Directors Guild Award, […]

A female student trainer claims the incident occurred in 2000 while Nate Parker was awaiting trial on a rape allegation.

To say that things got heated on set of Roland Martin‘s News One Now is a complete understatement. By no surprise, Birth Of A Nation has rattled many black women, some using feminism as the reason why they wouldn’t support the film. The Nat Turner story opened to a disappointing $7M, and many people celebrated […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Propelled by the popularity of Paula Hawkins’ best-seller, the fast-tracked big-screen adaptation of “The Girl on the Train” led North American theaters in ticket sales with $24.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Less successful was Nate Parker’s Nat Turner biopic “The Birth of a Nation,” which moviegoers largely greeted with […]

Birth Of A Nation is easily one of the country’s most anticipated films of the year. Nation tells the story of slave and preacher, Nat Turner (Nate Parker), who uses his preaching to calm unruly slaves. One he notices the atrocities against himself and his fellow slaves, Nat orchestrates an uprising in hopes of leading them to freedom. […]

CBS has released a clip from Nate Parker’s 60 Minutes interview, airing this Sunday. “I don’t feel guilty,” he told Anderson Cooper in his first television interview about the 1999 rape case that resurfaced this summer just as buzz surrounding his film The Birth of a Nation was reaching its peak. Parker also said, according to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Searchlight will hold voter registration enrollment in theater lobbies ahead of screenings of the Nat Turner slave rebellion drama “The Birth of a Nation.” Though the film has been overshadowed by a 17-year-old rape case involving Nate Parker, the film’s director and star, Fox Searchlight is trying to shift the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Searchlight will hold voter registration enrollment in theater lobbies ahead of screenings of the Nat Turner slave rebellion drama “The Birth of a Nation.” Though the film has been overshadowed by a 17-year-old rape case involving Nate Parker, the film’s director and star, Fox Searchlight is trying to shift the […]

While Director Nate Parker has spent the publicity campaign for his film “The Birth of a Nation,” either answering or dodging questions about the 17-year-old rape case in which he was acquitted, his leading lady Gabrielle Union has become the face of the slave drama, and she’s trying to re-engage the audience that might be […]