‘The Birth of a Nation’ gets a trailer

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One of the most anticipated films of 2016, The Birth of a Nation, has its first teaser trailer.

The dual 2016 Sundance Film Festival winner, which was also shown in parts at CinemaCon, is full of sweeping camera shots, dramatic photography and rousing speeches. The film, which was written, directed and stars Nate Parker, tells the story of Nat Turner, a Virginia slave who organized a revolt in 1831 against white slave owners to free African-Americans. The film also stars Armie Hammer (The Social Network), Jackie Earle Haley (Oscar nominee for Little Children), Aunjanue Ellis (The Help, TV’s Quantico), Gabrielle Union (Bring it On, TV’s Being Mary Jane) Aja Naomi King (TV’s How to Get Away with Murder) and Penelope Ann Miller (Adventures in Babysitting).

The film is set for release by Fox Searchlight on October 7th.

Here’s the trailer:

Here is the poster, which debuted at CinemaCon:

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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