Unlike some of its A-list competitors at the upcoming Independent Spirit Awards, Shatara Michelle Ford‘s debut film “Test Pattern” was funded on nine credit cards the director took out themself.

Shatara Michelle Ford's film follows a Black woman and her white boyfriend in the aftermath of her rape. By Jourdain Searles In Shatara Michelle Ford’s experimental thriller Test Pattern, light and ...

“I never ask people, just casually, for their phone number,” Evan (Will Brill) says. This is how he greets Renesha (Brittany S. Hall), a woman he met in a bar some time before, whose number he’d asked ...

"Everything in the world is about sex. Except sex." Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for an indie psychological thriller / realist drama titled Test Pattern, a film marking the feature ...

Shatara Michelle Ford’s debut feature Test Pattern addresses sensitive material with clinically painstaking detail. The narrative begins in 2017 at an Austin bar as Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) meets ...

Exclusive: Ford's highly anticipated sophomore feature "Dreams in Nightmares" will open the BlackStar Film Festival in August. Ford’s “Test Pattern,” a standout debut from 2019, also premiered at ...

Among the offerings of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival is “Test Pattern.” It is the first feature film by St. Louis native Shatara Michelle Ford and follows a young Black woman as ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has taken North American rights to Shatara Michelle Ford’s Test Pattern. The debut feature had its premiere at BlackStar Film Festival last year, where it won the ...

The Atlanta native's new film tells the story of how an interracial couple's relationship gets put to the test while they go from hospital to hospital to find a rape kit.