André Holland and Nicole Beharie team up again for the forthcoming film, ‘Love, Brooklyn’ set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next year. Although few details have been revealed about the upcoming project, it follows the lives of three Brooklynites as they navigate love, loss, careers, and friendship against the backdrop of a rapidly changing city. Additional star features in the film include DeWanda Wise, Roy Wood Jr., Cassandra Freeman, and Cadence Reese.

The film was written by Paul Zimmerman, and it serves as the directorial debut for Rachael Abigail Holder. Producers for this project include André Holland, Kate Sharp, Patrick Wengler, Maurice Anderson, and Liza Zusman.

Both Holland and Beharie have starred in influential cultural projects that have played a key role in shaping the evolution of storytelling in film. André Holland stars in Sugar (2008), 42 (2013), Black or White (2014), Selma (2014), Moonlight (2016), American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016), Widows (2018), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), Passing (2021), Shirley (2024), Terminator Zero (2024), The Big Cigar (2024), and most recently Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024), among other films and series. Holland has received several prestigious awards, including the 2014 Black Film Critics Circle Award for his role in Selma (2014), as well as the 2016 Gotham Award and the 2017 Gold Derby Film Award for his performance in Moonlight (2016).

Nicole Beharie stars in American Violet (2008), Sins of the Mother (2010), My Last Day Without You (2011), Apartment 4E (2012), Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) and Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012), The Last Fall (2012), Sleepy Hollow (2013 - 2017), Monsters and Men (2018), Scenes From A Marriage (2021), Solos (2021), The Morning Show (2019), Jacob’s Ladder (2019), Miss Juneteenth (2020), Breaking (2022), Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul (2022), and more. Beharie is the prestigious recipient of several awards, including the 2021 Hollywood Critics Association Award and the Gotham Independent Film Award for her role in Miss Juneteenth (2020), the 2022 Sundance Festival Award for her role in Breaking (2022), and the 2024 Black Reel Awards for Television for her role in The Morning Show (2019). She is also a Primetime Emmy Award nominee and a NAACP Image Award Nominee.

‘Love, Brooklyn’ is a cinematic reconnection between Holland and Beharie. They both starred in Brian Helgeland’s 42 (2013), with Beharie portraying Rachel Robinson, opposite the late Chadwick Boseman, and Holland playing Wendell Smith, the supportive journalist for Jackie Robinson (Boseman), the first Black athlete to play in Major League Baseball.

‘Love, Brooklyn’ will debut at the Sundance Film festival January- February 2025.

—Dominique Young