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In ​Don’t Let Go,​ detective Jack Radcliff (David Oyelowo) gets a shocking phone call from his recently-murdered niece Ashley (Storm Reid). Working together across time, they race to solve her murder before it can happen.

Friday, August 16, 2019 at the Array Offices in Los Angeles, Ava DuVernay hosted a special screening of Don’t Let Go; a film directed by Jacob Estes (Seven Seconds). Oyelowo also serves as a producer on the film.

You may recall Oyelowo teamed up with DuVernay as the star of her 2014 film, Selma, in which Oyelowo played civil rights lion Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reid starred in DuVernay’s  A Wrinkle in Time (2018) and her critically-acclaimed Netflix documentary When They See Us (2019).

Official Movie Poster (Blumhouse Tilt, Universal’s OTL Releasing and Briarcliff Entertainment

Don’t Let Go also stars Mykelti Williamson and Brian Tyree Henry and opens in theaters nationwide August 30.

Check out the official trailer below:

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This post was written by Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., founder & editor-in-chief of The Burton Wire. Follow her on Twitter @Ntellectual or @TheBurtonWire

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