"Roxanne Roxanne" earned actress Chanté Adams Sundance's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance on Saturday. Neon has acquired the North American rights to “Roxanne Roxanne,” which premiered ...

Newcomer Chante Adams stars in one of Sundance’s biggest hits this year, “Roxanne Roxanne,” as one of the pivotal figures of 1980s hip-hop, Roxanne Shante. “It was a little nerve-wracking because I ...

Producer Mimi Valdes got a call from Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali in 2016 and she nearly had a panic attack. Valdes knew Ali just rehearsed with the lead actress of her upcoming film, a newcomer ...

Though she stars opposite the wildly talented Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, newcomer Chanté Adams steals the show as the titular character in the hip-hop biopic “Roxanne Roxanne.” Writer-director ...

Gifted with the lyrical ability to rap faster than most people sneeze, Queensbridge’s Shante (Chante Adams, “Monsters and Men”) seems destined for greatness. Just a child, she battles adults on any ...

A hip-hop biopic about Roxanne Shanté, the original girl rapper from Queensbridge, fills in the legend of "Roxanne's Revenge." One of the built-in hooks of the biopic is that it tends to involve fame ...

It looks like there is a Roxanne Shanté biopic in the works and we are here for it. The Sundance Institute announced that a Michael Larnell film about the hip-hop legend—Roxanne Roxanne—had been ...

Producer Mimi Valdes got a call from Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali in 2016 and she nearly had a panic attack. Valdes knew Ali just rehearsed with the lead actress of her upcoming film, a newcomer ...