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Lovie Simone is known for her role as Zora on OWN’s Greenleaf and she caught the attention of many people in the titular role of Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades. On top of that, she has been making banana bread long before everyone was showing off their beginner skills on Instagram during the quarantine — and she…

Selah and the Spades, a new teen film Amazon Studios picked up at the 2019 Sundance Film Fesitval, where it was well-received, is the perfect movie for the Trump era in that it is all about a lot of self-possessed high school teens in an elite Eastern boarding school who carve themselves up into factions dividing the…

First-time feature director Tayarisha Poe made her Sundance debut with boarding school drama Selah and the Spades, a film that for Poe, hits close to home. “I went boarding school in Central Jersey and I loved it. It was a really formative experience for me. I think it was because of the independence that we had and…

EXCLUSIVE: Tayarisha Poe is set to make her directorial debut with the upcoming drama Selah and the Spades. The film will star Lovie Simone (Greenleaf) as Selah, along with Celeste O'Connor (Wetlands) and Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight). Jesse Williams (Grey's Antatomy, Random Acts of Violence), Ana Mulvoy Ten (American Cri…