2023 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

American Fiction

(USA, 117 MIN)

Writer/Director: Cord Jefferson

Key Cast: Jeffery Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erik Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae

Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.