Academy Award winner® Mahershala Ali, leading star of Orion Pictures & Amazon MGM Studios’ took the CultureCon™ main stage for a Creative Genius panel on artistic freedom, diverse storytelling, and creative inspiration with veteran journalist & influential media executive Datwon Thomas, and received the Creative Icon Award on Sunday, October 4!
It was an engaging and powerful conversation – held at one of the largest conferences shaped by and for Black creatives, community, and culture – between the two as they chatted entertainment, Hollywood, and culture through the Black creative’s lens. From Mahershala’s dynamic career trajectory to how music influences his approach in roles to the importance of telling + supporting original stories to leading the critically-acclaimed Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.
YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER is in Theaters Everywhere this Friday.
From writer-director Bassam Tariq, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother stars Mahershala Ali as Latif, a devoutly religious hitman who struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him – and the beliefs threatening to unravel within.
Written and Directed by: Bassam Tariq
Produced by: Lucan Toh, p.g.a., Babak Anvari, Bassam Tariq, p.g.a.