Naturi Naughton (Notorious, “Power”) and Tanyell Quian (MA, “Queen Sugar”) will star in Lifetime’s upcoming dramatic film, Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie.
The film is the second in actress and producer Garcelle Beauvais‘ three project deal with the network and picks up where last year’s critically acclaimed first project starring Beauvais, Black Girl Missing, left off in examining the often overlooked cases of Black women and girls going missing.
In the latest project, Shannon (Tanyell Quian) is an ambitious college student hustling to pay her way through school who suddenly stops going to class and appearing around campus without anyone noticing but her college counselor, Ellen (Naturi Naughton).
Ellen goes to everyone she can think of to raise concerns about Shannon’s whereabouts from university officials to her professors to even her boyfriend with little effect. Undeterred, Ellen continues to dig until she uncovers the unthinkable: Shannon was kidnapped by a human trafficking ring that preys on vulnerable female students of color.
The gripping tale was written by Avery O. Williams and is directed by Delmar Washington, who also helmed the director’s chair for the first film. Co-stars of the film include Aaron Gillespie, Alexis Austriaco, Hasan Vibez Comer, Mark JP Hood, Maura Gale and Zo’Anne McKinstry.
Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie premieres on the Lifetime network on July 20.
