Kasey Inez, Jahking Guillory, Pedro Correa and Damon Gupton star in Nicki Micheaux’s debut feature Summer Of Violence

EXCLUSIVE: Kasey Inez (The sex lives of college girls), Jahking Guillory (Black Lightning), Pedro Correa (The middle) and Damon Gupton (Babylon) is overline summer of violence — the first film written and directed by actress Nicki Micheaux (Lincoln Heights) that wrapped the production.

summer of violence is a coming-of-age photo from Micheaux’s time with the Sundance Writing Collab, taken in Colorado. The Three60 Films film follows a young college graduate, Naomi (Inez), who, despite her father’s objections, turns down law school to pursue poetry. She then struggles to survive in Denver in 1993 after being cut off by her father during a violent crime spree in the city known as the Summer of Violence. Guillory plays Naomi’s artist friend Frank, with Correa as her boyfriend Richie and Gupton as her father Thomas.

Micheaux is producing the picture with her partner in the production company, Johnny Wimbrey, as well as Efuru Flowers (Slow pulse) and Sean Riggs (Lazarus).

Inez was seen Student sex lifes, as well as several short films and the series The David Project by Screenland Entertainment Productions.

Guillory is best known for his work on series Black Lightning, Uncertain, on my block and the chi amongst other things. His feature credits include smart featuring the award-winning indie by Joey King and Justin Tipping, Shovel.

Correa’s credits include Peter Farrelly’s recent Apple film The biggest beer run of all time with Zac Efron and Russell Crowe and Hulu’s Small fires everywhereamong other projects.

Gupton played Bill Henderson on The CW’s Black Lightning and has also recently appeared in series such as Super pumped, The last days of Ptolemy Grey, The Comey Rule and Dirty Jan, amongst other things. He currently stars in Damien Chazelle’s newly released old Hollywood epic Babylon for Paramount, having previously appeared in the filmmaker’s titles the country and whiplashand will soon also appear in the series The Grand Door Prize by Apple and Skydance.

Micheaux is best known in the acting arena for his appearances in series In the dark, shameless, Good difficulty, gossip, colony, sweep, animal kingdom, Lincoln Heights and The shield, among many other projects. She previously wrote, directed, produced and starred in the short film veilalso exec, which creates the function final promises.

Micheaux is represented by Singular Talent and Stride Management; Inez from Underground Films; Guillory of Innovative Artists and MJMG; Correa by Paradigm and Lights, Grossman, Nichols; and Gupton of SMS Talent and Brookside Artist Management.