Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2022 is thrilled to announce the showcasing of director Sanaa Lathan’s directorial feature film debut On the Come Up with a World Premiere at the 47th edition of the Festival.
On the Come Up is the story of Bri, a 16-year-old gifted rapper, who attempts to rise by storm in order to lift up her family and do right by the legacy of her father, a local hip hop legend whose career was cut short by gang violence.
With her first hit song going viral for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself torn between the authenticity that got her this far and the false persona that the industry wants to impose upon her.
Based on the NY Times’ #1 best-selling novel by Angie Thomas, produced by George Tillman, Jr., Robert Teitel, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner, Angie Thomas, and Timothy M. Bourne, and executive produced by John Fischer the film On the Come Up stars Jamila C. Gray, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Lil Yachty, Mike Epps, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Justin Martin, Titus Makin, Michael Cooper Jr., GaTa with Sanaa Lathan and Cliff “Method Man” Smith.
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