Ricky
Guests Expected
Director Rashad Frett is expected to attend for a post-screening Q&A.
Description
Back home in East Hartford, CT, after his recent release from prison, 30-year-old Ricardo “Ricky” Smith (Stephan James, The Piano Lesson) seeks to reclaim his freedom and make up for experiences lost during his teenage and early adult years. Ricky faces a tricky route to reintegrate back into a society that has left him behind, in a city that he no longer recognizes. He finds work through an old acquaintance, but his criminal record carries a stigma in the eyes of others, creating a tumultuous uphill battle on his path toward redemption. Embodying someone who has the odds perpetually stacked against him, James’s transfixing multilayered performance is simply astonishing. Rashad Frett makes a mesmerizing directorial debut as he empathetically explores the circumstances of this fraught yet tender man’s desperate search to find solace in a perilous world. —Jordan Klein
Caribbean American filmmaker Rashad Frett earned his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts film program. He was a 2023 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab Fellow, one among many honors. His short films include K.I.N.G. (2018), which won a DGA Student Film Award and a First Run Festival Best Graduate Film Award, and Ricky (2023), the basis for his first feature and the winner of another First Run Festival Best Graduate Film Award. He was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” for 2023.
Film Details
LanguageEnglish
Year2024
PremiereCalifornia
Runtime108
CountryUSA
DirectorRashad Frett
ProducerPierre M. Coleman, Simon TaufiQue, Sterling Brim, Josh Peters, DC Wade
Executive ProducerRobina Riccitiello, Stephan James, Tegan Acton, Emma Pompetti, Abby Schnair, Gene Schnair, Parish Bradley, Dawn Bonder , Daniel J. Chalfen, Marci Wiseman
WriterRashad Frett, Lin Que Ayoung
EditorDaysha Broadway
CinematographerSam Motamedi
MusicSimon TaufiQue
CastStephan James, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Titus Welliver
Print SourceRicky The Film LLC
Closed CaptionsClosed Captions are confirmed for this film
Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions are not currently confirmed for this film
American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film
