A.V. Rockwell’s ‘A Thousand and One’ With Teyana Taylor Units Launch

Focus Options has set A.V. Rockwell’s “A Thousand and One,” starring Teyana Taylor, for theatrical launch on March 31, 2023.

Written and directed by A.V. Rockwell in her feature-length directorial debut, the movie facilities on unapologetic and free-spirited Inez (Taylor), who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system. Because the movie’s official description explains, the story follows mom and son “holding onto their secret and one another,” as they “got down to reclaim their sense of house, id, and stability, in a quickly altering New York Metropolis.”

“A Thousand and One” is produced by Sight Unseen’s Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev; Hillman Grad’s Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani; and Makeready’s Brad Weston. Sight Unseen’s Oren Moverman is govt producing alongside Rachel Jacobs.

Focus is distributing the movie within the U.S. with Common Photos Worldwide dealing with worldwide distribution. In December 2020, Selection reported that the undertaking had been greenlit by Focus Options, Sight Unseen, Makeready and Hillman Grad Manufacturing, with the businesses banding collectively to assist Rockwell’s distinctive imaginative and prescient. The promising filmmaker has been named considered one of Filmmaker Journal’s 25 New Faces of Unbiased Movie and has acquired fellowships from Tribeca Movie Institute, the Sundance Institute and the John S. Guggenheim Basis.

“A.V.’s script completely floored us with its insights, feelings and humanity, and we’re thrilled to affix the powerhouse teaming of Hillman Grad, Makeready and Sight Unseen to convey her directorial abilities to the display screen,” Focus Options Chairman Peter Kujawski said on the time of the announcement.

Rockwell is represented by WME, 2AM, and Granderson Des Rochers.