THE BIG CIGAR
Free
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
Aero Theatre | Q&A with showrunner Janine Sherman Barrois, executive producer Jim Hecht and actor Glynn Turman. Moderated by AAFCA President and Co-Founder Gil Robertson.
Advance Screening + Free popcorn & soda courtesy of Warner Bros.
Co-presented by the African American Film Critics Association
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ABOUT THE EPISODES:
Episode 1: “Panther/Producer,” 2024, Dir. Don Cheadle, 39 Min, Apple TV+, USA
Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton enlists Hollywood producer Bert Schneider in a plan to flee to Cuba and elude a nationwide FBI manhunt.
FORMAT: DCP
Episode 2: “The Cuban,” 2024, Dir. Don Cheadle, Apple TV+, USA
Huey hatches a plan to get to Cuba: Bert and his Hollywood friends will use a movie shoot as a ruse. But first, Huey attempts to move the Black Panther Party away from armed struggle.
FORMAT: DCP
ABOUT THE SERIES:
THE BIG CIGAR, 2024, Apple TV+, USA
Based on the magazine article by Joshuah Bearman (“Argo”), who will also serve as executive producer, THE BIG CIGAR is the incredible true story of Hollywood revolution meeting social revolution: it’s a wild caper of Black Panther founder Huey P. Newton escaping from the FBI to Cuba with the assistance of famed producer Bert Schneider in an impossibly elaborate plan — involving a fake movie production — that goes wrong every way it possibly can. And somehow, it’s all true. Mostly.
FORMAT: DCP
