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Set within the demanding and revealing milieu of a low-budget film shoot, Naked Acts tells the story of Cicely, an actress, who has recently lost 57 pounds and has landed her first role in a low-budget art film.
A key, underseen film of the Black independent cinema canon, NAKED ACTS features moving performances by Jake-Ann Jones, Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us), and artist-activist Renee Cox. NAKED ACTS has been digitally restored and remastered by Lightbox Film Center in collaboration with Milestone Films.
The sole feature by writer-director Bridgett M. Davis, Naked Acts offers a portrait of a young woman who quickly discovers that emotional nakedness is far more revealing than taking her clothes off could ever be. Presented in a new restoration by Milestone Films and Lightbox Philadelphia.
Naked Acts is a legend of Black US cinema, originally nobody wanted to distribute it but Bridgett M. Davis took things into her own hands and with a slow, small run she made it a relative success. For now, Naked Acts remains Davis' sole fiction feature.
Naked Acts enjoyed relative success in the alternative festival and theatrical circuit, but remained one of the criminally under-seen “most influential Black films.”. Naked Acts features brilliant acting by leads Jake-ann Jones and the late Ron Cephas Jones (This is Us), in his only romantic lead.
Naked Acts. Beautiful aspiring actress Cicely (Jake-ann Jones) has just landed her first major role, but there's a big problem: There's a nude scene.
Set in a detailed milieu of the NYC creative class – with evocative intrigues on independent film sets and in video stores – Naked Acts is a resonant and defiant tale of self-discovery.
