Here’s a new trailer for the upcoming Miss Virginia, a film coming to digital very soon through Signature Entertainment. Uzo Aduba leads the cast of the feature which is based on the true story of Virginia Walden Ford’s fight to create positive educational opportunities for African-American students in Washington D.C. Signature will debut the film on digital HD on 2nd October. Niles Fitch (Roman J. Israel, Esq., This is Us), Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), Vanessa Williams (Shaft), and Adina Porter (American Horror Story) round out the central cast.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Virgina Walden (Uzo Aduba) an impoverished single mother who is losing her fifteen-year-old son to the rough streets of Washington D.C. Unwilling to see him drop out and deal drugs, she places him in a private school. But when she can’t afford tuition, she launches a movement to change the system that is destroying him and thousands like him. Attacked and threatened by those who don’t want change – from a corrupt politician to the local drug lord, Virginia must discover depths of strength she never knew she had.
Check out the new trailer below.
