Kamilah Forbes Trailers

Kamilah Forbes is an American curator, producer, and director. She created and directed the Hip Hop Theater Festival from 2000 to 2016. Forbes has directed and produced several television productions that center the intersection of Black narratives and music. She produced the HBO television series Def Poetry Jam (2002) and Brave New Voices, PBS's The Women's List, and was associate director for NBC's The Wiz Live! In 2020, Forbes directed the HBO adaptation of Between the World and Me based on Ta-Nehisi Coates book of the same name. She previously directed the 2018 stage show adaptation. President Joe Biden nominated Forbes to be a member of the National Council of the Arts on June 23, 2021.

Most Popular Kamilah Forbes Trailers

Total trailers found: 4

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play Trailer (2019)

16 August 2019

Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on the Miss Universe pageant.

Blood Over a Broken Pawn Trailer (2008)

10 May 2008

Traumatized by a violent robbery, a Brooklyn coffee shop owner lashes out against an innocent kid, and stumbles into a dangerous confrontation with a chess-master, kingpin.

Between the World and Me Trailer (2020)

21 November 2020

Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.

When a Witness Recants Trailer (2026)

27 January 2026

In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates learned that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in his Baltimore middle school.