{"id":24334,"date":"2025-03-24T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=24334"},"modified":"2025-03-24T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:31:29","slug":"grassland-digital-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/grassland-digital-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Tout Digital Release of ‘Grassland’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A movie with Kalamazoo College ties that seeks to change society\u2019s views on marijuana incarceration policies is now available for pre-purchase and will be available digitally<\/a> through Apple TV+ beginning Friday, April 18.\u00a0Grassland<\/em> stars Quincy Isaiah \u201917, an actor known for his role as Magic Johnson in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty<\/em>. Adam Edery \u201919 served the movie as a producer and Shon Powell \u201918 as a consulting producer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOverall, we’ve gotten overwhelmingly positive feedback on the film, not only on platforms such as Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, but from individuals letting us know how moved they are by it,\u201d Edery said. \u201cThe biggest takeaway people seem to have is that they didn’t realize how many people are still incarcerated for cannabis offenses today, and seeing the direct impacts this has on families.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set in 2008 during the Great Recession, the movie follows a single Latina mother whose illegal marijuana business is jeopardized when her son befriends new neighbors, a young white boy and his police officer grandfather. Actors M\u00eda Maestro and Jeff Kober star alongside Isaiah, who plays Brandon, a character who feels stuck with few options for moving on thanks to a mistake he made as a child.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grassland<\/em> had a private screening<\/a> with guests Edery and Isaiah at K\u2019s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in November 2023. The film then had a world premiere at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. It since has played at the Monterrey International Film Festival, the Boise Film Festival, the Pan African Film and at events in Detroit, New York City and Los Angeles with more screenings still to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive producer Common, who is also an actor and rapper, will lead an April 25 impact event at Shinola San Francisco, which will include conversations with him, members of the film team and the Last Prisoner Project\u2019s (LPP) director of advocacy. LPP works to free people who are still incarcerated for cannabis offenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are using our social impact campaign not only to educate people on the realities of cannabis incarceration today, but also to spur them to take action and provoke change in their communities whether it be calling their congressman to ask for clemency for a local LPP constituent, or moving from buying their cannabis from a national retailer to a local, cannabis-justice driven shop,\u201d Edery said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edery added that he won\u2019t measure the film\u2019s long-term success by the amount of money it makes or the amount of people who purchase it, but rather the amount of change that is driven from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we can meaningfully contribute to even one person being freed from prison as a result of efforts correlated with this film, I will consider it a success,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that starts with people watching the movie and becoming educated on the issue while also being entertained in the process.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Quincy Isaiah ’17 stars in “Grassland,” which is now available for pre-purchase through Apple TV+. Adam Edery ’19 is a producer and Shon Powell ’18 is a consulting producer.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Actor Quincy Isaiah ’17 (left) and Producer Adam Edery ’19 returned to Kalamazoo College in November 2023 to screen their independent film titled “Grassland.”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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