Acclaimed actress Danielle Deadwyler (“Till,” “The Piano Lesson”) is backmost connected nan large surface this summertime pinch nan merchandise of R.T. Thorne’s “40 Acres.” The critically praised 2024 TIFF premiere — a endurance action-thriller group aft a plague has destroyed animal life connected Earth — doesn’t unfastened nationally until July 2. But prime audiences tin spot nan movie for free connected nan upcoming Juneteenth holiday, June 19, courtesy of supplier Magnolia Pictures.

As IndieWire exclusively announces, Magnolia will partner pinch apical power stations, DJs, and affinity groups successful prime U.S. cities to bring nan film straight to section communities successful grant of nan 160-year day of nan extremity of slavery successful nan United States. (Juneteenth became a national vacation successful 2021.)

Cities and partners see Atlanta, GA (Majic 107.5/97.5), Birmingham, AL (WBHK-FM 98.7 KISS), Chicago, IL (Creative Cypher + Xl Fest), Dallas, TX (Juilliard Black Alumni Association – JBAA), Houston, TX (Prairie View University Alumni), Los Angeles, CA (Radio Free 102.3 KJLH), Nashville, TN (Joe Major from 101.1 The Beat), New Orleans, Los Angeles (BMIKE + Eternal Seeds), and New York, NY (DJ Sussone). Radio giveaways are underway successful Atlanta, Birmingham, and Los Angeles, pinch different organizations offering outreach arsenic well. Free screenings return spot astatine prime Regal, AMC, and Cinemark locations for respective cities, pinch Los Angeles’ screening taking spot astatine The Broad Theater. To get a free ticket, tune into those stations aliases travel different organizations’ societal and outreach platforms.

Led by executive shaper Deadwyler, nan movie besides stars Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O’Connor, Leenah Robinson, Jaeda LeBlanc, Haile Amare, Elizabeth Saunders, and Tyrone Benskin. Thorne (in his characteristic directing debut) wrote nan movie pinch Glenn Taylor.

Here’s nan synopsis of nan film: “In ‘40 Acres,’ aft a plague eradicates each animal life, famine spreads crossed nan globe, leaving nine astatine warfare and successful ruins, but nan Freemans are surviving — moreover thriving — connected their ancestral workplace truthful agelong arsenic they dispatch nan occasional raiding party. But what bully is surviving nan extremity of nan world if it intends snuffing retired your ain humanity? Former worker Hailey (Deadwyler) made that prime years ago, believing that isolation was nan only measurement to protect her family. She and her partner, Galen (Michael Greyeyes), fled nan illness on pinch their children, fenced them disconnected from nan world and trained them to conflict (and, yes, kill). But now, Hailey’s eldest, Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor), is simply a young man, and erstwhile he meets a young female (Milcania Diaz-Rojas) successful nan wood beyond nan fence, his request for quality interaction could spot nan full family successful jeopardy.”

Other upcoming Magnolia Pictures releases see Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s deed Sundance doc “Folktales,” Amy Berg’s euphony doc “It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley,” and Sundance-winning queer thriller “Plainclothes.” Back successful 2023, Magnolia sewage nan connection retired connected its award-winning trans documentary “Kokomo City” by offering a pay-it-forward summons model that allowed audiences to bargain a summons for personification else. The institution saw breakout box-office success from Sundance past twelvemonth pinch nan merchandise of June Squibb-starrer “Thelma.”