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Bay Area Logline: The Viral Foundation

Bay Area News Article: Oakland Mom meets Zendaya, posts hilarious video for son

Movie Logline: After a Hollywood street performer gains national attention for recording inspiring videos with celebrities to help his daughter fight cancer, he uses his influence to enact change.

Title: The Viral Foundation

Genre: Drama

Stars: Jamie Foxx, Amandla Stenberg

Bay Area Logline: The Innovation Tax

Bay Area news article: Mountain View’s controversial head tax, meant to alleviate Google’s impact on traffic and social services, now in effect

Movie logline: After rising rent costs displace valued members of his community, a charismatic politician takes on the tech industry with a series of controversial proposals.

Title: The Innovation Tax

Genre: Drama

Star: John David Washington

Bay Area Logline: The First Cure

Bay Area news article: Berkeley reports first coronavirus patient

Movie logline: After the President of the United States contracts a deadly virus, America’s top scientist is in a race against time to save him.

Title: The First Cure

Genre: Drama

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Don Cheadle

Bay Area Logline: Mask Off

Bay Area news article: Coronavirus supply shortage: Oakland clothing designer pivots from selling fashion to face masks

Movie Logline: After her first fashion show is cancelled during a global pandemic, a high school fashionista starts a business with her brother, a Google Science Fair winner, to create stylish N95 masks.

Title: Mask Off

Genre: Dark Comedy

Stars: Zendaya Coleman, Justice Smith

Bay Area Logline: Young Love

Bay Area news article: Two East Bay Families Stick Together During Coronavirus Shelter

Logline: After a tense engagement dinner organized by a teenage couple, two families are forced to live together during a shelter in place order.

Title: Young Love

Genre: Comedy Drama

Stars: Yara Shahidi, Shameik Moore, Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Daniel Kaluuya, Kimberly Elise

Bay Area Logline: The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Bay Area news article: Last week Oakland looked like a war zone. Now, it looks like hope

Logline: Two students at a high school arts academy utilize their artistic talents to promote unity during an unprecedented period of civil unrest.

Genre: Drama

Title: The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Stars: Zendaya Coleman, Tyler James Williams

Bay Area Logline: Hometown Heroes

Bay Area news article: Behind Colin Kaepernick’s life-changing visit to Oakland teens who took a knee

Logline: In Oakland, California a journalist generates national attention for a local high school after the football team joins Colin Kaepernick’s protest again policy brutality and systemic racism.

Genre: Sports Drama

Title: Hometown Heroes

Stars: Mahershala Ali, Jharrel Jerome

Bay Area Logline: The Stone Age Assassin

Bay Area news article: Sunnyvale Police Investigate Fatal Stabbing At Bay Lands Park; Suspect At Large

Title: The Stone Age Assassin

Stars: Lakeith Stanfield, Denzel Washington

Logline: A police force overly reliant on technology fails to capture a dangerous serial killer (Stanfield) who operates completely off the grid; a retired detective (Washington) returns to catch him.

Genre: Suspense Thriller

Bay Area Logline: Gaslighting

Bay Area news article: Man charged with setting people on fire at Berkeley boba shop

Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Logline: A mysterious cult leader (Kaluuya) meets a homeless war veteran (Abdul-Mateen II) and gives him shelter; the veteran descends into madness after joining the cult.

Title: Gaslighting

Genre: Social Thriller

Bay Area Logline: The Lovely Botique

Bay Area news article: Oakland Entrepreneur Overcomes Adversity to Start New Business

Stars: Octavia Spencer, Skai Jackson

Logline: A cancer patient (Spencer) faces off against her diagnosis and COVID-19 when she opens a boutique clothing store with her daughter (Jackson) in Downtown Oakland.

Title: The Lovely Botique

Genre: Drama

Bay Area Logline: Thank You for Voting

Bay Area news article: Iconic S.F. locations serve as polling places for historic election

Stars: Larenz Tate, Lamorne Morris

Logline: A liberal politician (Tate) competes against his conservative rival (Morris) in a battleground state; as part of a goodwill tour, he brokers deals to open iconic locations as polling places.

Title: Thank You for Voting

Genre: Satirical Black Comedy

Bay Area Logline: Young Guns

Bay Area news article: Oakland police cite ‘alarming’ trend of juveniles as young as 11 committing armed robbery

Stars: Demetrius Shipp Jr., Michael Ealy,

Logline: As the coronavirus pandemic worsens, the youth population is hit the hardest due to the local community’s lack of structure. The executive director of a local youth center (Ealy) wages a cold war against a gang leader (Shipp Jr.) that recruits children as young as 11.

Title: Young Guns

Genre: Crime Drama