The boy king gets the Black Panther treatment—pharaohs, but make it Afro-futurism.
An Afro-furistic, coming-of-age story of the boy King Tutankhamun. The film will take audiences on a journey through Ancient Egypt and celebrate a culture that introduced the world to countless modern conventions and technologies.
Direction
Matthew A. Cherry pivots from Hair Love to epic scale.
Production
Afro-futurist Egypt—a visual language that doesn't exist yet.
Writing
Reclaiming a whitewashed history with swagger.
Director
Matthew A. Cherry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Matthew A. Cherry became the first African American to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short with Hair Love in 2020.
The film intentionally subverts centuries of Hollywood whitewashing Egypt—Cleopatra was Greek, but Tut's family was indigenous Nubian-Egyptian.
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