A third title for Evokative: BLACK

After Paris and Tokyo, Dakar is the new destination visited by Evokative Films. The new Canadian distributor of International films is very happy to announce its third acquisition: BLACK, a film written and directed by Pierre Laffargue. This action film, taking place in Paris and Dakar, stars the French rapper MC Jean Gab’1, Carole Karemera, François Levantal and Anton Yakovlev.

Black, a Senegalese bank-robber born and raised in France, is getting over a disastrous heist in which he lost nearly all of his men. He’s seriously thinking of going straight when his cousin Lamine calls him from Dakar: a briefcase full of contraband diamonds has just been deposited in the bank where he works. Thinking this will be an unbelievably easy coup, Black assembles a new gang and quickly flies to Africa, where he’s never set foot. What they haven’t planned, however, is that they are far from being the only ones interested in that briefcase. The corrupt director of the bank, an arm dealer suffering from suppurating psoriasis, a gang of mercenaries from Chechnya and an Interpol agent are also set to get their hands on those diamonds. With a funky soundtrack, BLACK delivers a heist film filled with action and peppered with comedy and mysticism.

Evokative Films closed this distribution deal with Anaïs Canet from Wide Management, its world sales agent. The film was produced by Chic Films and will be distributed in France by Ocean Films. BLACK will be released in theatres in France by the end of the year and in Canada shortly thereafter.

Evokative Films’ acquisition of the Canadian rights of BLACK was reported in Variety today. Check it out here: ‘Black’ goes Wide via Evokative

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