::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

In Harlem Rev. Al Sharpton  NAN founder/president   - who was celebrating his birthday that day -- was on hand to thank Nate personally for telling the story  of  Nat Turner. Nate Parker flips the script with a  complete re-imagining of  the D.W. Griffith's classic "Birth of A Nation."  Parker, who stars in directs and wrote the  project, received advanced critical acclaim for his work on the film the Sundance Film Festival.  Past rape allegations , for which Parker as vindicated, threatened the success of the film.  Parker has maintained he was falsely accused.  The victim committed suicide on 2012. Set against the Antebellum South and based on a true story, 'The Birth of a Nation' follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atro...

buzzz worthy. . . The backlash from Black talent being ignored on the Oscars ballot has worked out favorably form one Black  film maker.  The laudable reception of "Birth of A Nation" during its debut at Sundance on Monday, matriculated into a history-making deal by Tuesday. Actor/Director/Writer Nate Parker ("Red Tails," "The Great Debaters") made the highest sale in the history of the film festival. Fox Searchlight has offered $17.5 for worldwide distribution of the story that centers around the slave rebellion of Nat Turner -- not to be confused in the least with D.W. Griffith's racist early American film.  Deadline reports: "The deal rivals the biggest ever made at a film festival: the $20 million Focus Features paid for world rights to the Tom Ford-directed Nocturnal Animals at the last Cannes, which matched the $20 million Paramount paid for the Denis Villenueve-directed Story Of Your Life at Cannes 2014." Parker put his en...