That is the primary nomination for 4 Screens, the manufacturing and administration firm behind the movie.
Co-director Jason Pollard, producers Nicole Beckett and Messiah Jacobs, and co-director Sam Pollard on the Grammys Museum screening of Ol’ Soiled Bastard: A Story of Two Dirtys
Nationwide — The NAACP nominations are out and 4 Screens’ documentary Ol’ Soiled Bastard: A Story of Two Dirtys has been nominated for finest director of a documentary. The Black and woman-owned manufacturing and administration firm is understood for creating genuine content material within the TV, movie, and documentary area.
“We’re completely honored that our movie has been nominated for an NAACP award for our co-directors Sam and Jason Pollard,” says Messiah Jacobs, Co-Founding father of 4 Screens and producer of the documentary. “Our firm has all the time had a mission of bringing culture-based tales to life. This nomination exhibits that persons are paying consideration and that we’re making a distinction within the tradition.”
4 Screens represents artistic legacy shoppers who’ve enriched the tradition and the world. The corporate makes a speciality of all mental property issues, from the seed of an concept to the ultimate product.
Ol’ Soiled Bastard: A Story of Two Dirtys is a provocative and tumultuous, behind-the-scenes take a look at icon Ol’ Soiled Bastard aka ODB—who altered the world of hip hop without end earlier than his life ended tragically younger—as by no means seen earlier than by way of the eyes of household, associates and different ground-breaking artists who knew him finest, together with members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Mariah Carey. The movie delves into the socio-political parts that brought about Soiled’s rise and fall and the way those self same elements nonetheless have an effect on us at the moment.
This documentary was years within the making, beginning with 4 Screens’ co-founders Messiah Jacobs and Nicole Beckett turning into the Property of ODB’s administration greater than a decade in the past.
“Because the Property’s administration crew, It was our objective to accomplice with ODB’s spouse Icelene Jones and the administrator of the property of ODB to convey his story to life in an genuine means,” says Jacobs. “With the partnership of Icelene and her foresight to doc the early days of ODB’s profession, we knew we might make a narrative that resonates in at the moment’s Tradition.”
As producers, Jacobs, Beckett, Icelene, and her son Barsun Jones/YDB got down to create a documentary with the 4 Screens’ ethos in thoughts. 4 Screens finds its success in centering tales round underrepresented voices and champions a various artistic crew not simply in entrance of the digicam however in each function vital for a profitable manufacturing.
“At 4 Screens we all know that essentially the most participating tales are instructed by those that dwell them,” Beckett says. “Photographs and illustration within the tales we watch matter. Should you don’t have various expertise behind the cameras, you gained’t see various content material performed thoughtfully.”
“Once we teamed up with our companions at Pulse Movies and A&E, we made it clear that the director of this movie wanted to be somebody who had skilled hip hop and The Tradition first hand– and was a local of New York,” Jacobs says. “We discovered a dream crew within the Pollards, with Sam Pollard’s decade of expertise in filmmaking together with MLK/FBI, Mr. Soul! and Sammy Davis Jr: I’ve Gotta Be Me. We couldn’t move up on his son Jason Pollard for his unbelievable modifying and directing expertise and his expertise rising up in New York through the nineties and residing the golden age of hip-hop firsthand.”
The ultimate NAACP Awards will likely be introduced on February 22. In the meantime, 4 Screens continues on with a slate of different initiatives together with a hip-hop-themed graphic novel ODB: A Lyrical Ruckus within the Metropolis. Their first e book signing will likely be at E book Soup in Hollywood on January 27 at 7pm with creators and writers Messiah Jacobs, Nicole Beckett, Jaxson Beckett-Williams, Jason Pierre, and Chris Robinson. The novel is obtainable now at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and native bookstores by way of Simon & Schuster.
Created in partnership with Oni Press and 4 Screens and formally approved by the Ol’ Soiled Bastard property, this taunt and turbulent graphic novel options contributions from an epic solid each bit as sprawling as the town inside: Troy-Jeffrey Allen (Chuck D’s Apocalypse 91: Revolution By no means Sleeps), Paris Alleyne (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), David Brame (MediSIN), Dojo Gubser (Rot8ion), Jay Hero (Inexperienced Lantern), Maan Home (Bloodborne), Mike Del Mundo (Avengers), Jason Pierre (CW’s Within the Darkish), Ike Reed & David Gorden (Rampage Jackson’s Huge Brawl), Chris Robinson (Vince Staples’ Limbo Seaside), Regine Sawyer (Darkish Nights: Demise Steel—The Final 52), Damion Scott (Batgirl), Felipe Sobreiro (“Bizarre Al” Yankovic’s The Illustrated Al), Ron Wimberly (Prince of Cats), and extra.
For press inquiries, contact 4 Screens/Nicole Beckett at nicole@4sproduction.com or 323-804-4550.
