• Director(s)

    Sharon Lewis

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Genre(s)

    Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    84m

  • Cast

    Mouna Traoré, Nigel Shawn Williams, Shakura S'Aida, Rachael Crawford, Measha Brueggergosman

Film

Brown Girl Begins

moderate violence, threat, injury detail, drug references

BROWN GIRL BEGINS is a Canadian dystopian drama in which a young woman must risk death by a spirit so she can take her place as a Caribbean priestess and save her people.…

BROWN GIRL BEGINS is a Canadian dystopian drama in which a young woman must risk death by a spirit so she can take her place as a Caribbean priestess and save her people.

violence
There are scenes of moderate violence in which a woman is struck in the back with a wooden staff and dies after she fails to absorb it's magical powers. There are also scenes of masked violence in which people are hit with a fantastical leather whip, punched and knocked over by energy blasts.
threat and horror
Moderate threat includes a character having flashbacks to her mother's death, and is haunted by the spirit of an ancestor.
drugs
There are references to an illegal futuristic drug that is injected through the skin with a two pronged contraption. There is also a scene in which a character is found dead after a suspected overdose, and scenes in which drug addicts carry red marks on their necks from the two pronged injector.
injury detail
There are scenes of moderate injury detail in which a fantastical whip leaves a cut on a young girl's back and a burn on the hand of a person who tries to grip it.
additional issues
There is a post-coital scene.

  • Director(s)

    Sharon Lewis

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Genre(s)

    Fantasy

  • Approx. running minutes

    84m

  • Cast

    Mouna Traoré, Nigel Shawn Williams, Shakura S'Aida, Rachael Crawford, Measha Brueggergosman

moderate violence, threat, injury detail, drug references
Classified Date:
23/08/2021
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Miracle Media
violence
There are scenes of moderate violence in which a woman is struck in the back with a wooden staff and dies after she fails to absorb it's magical powers. There are also scenes of masked violence in which people are hit with a fantastical leather whip, punched and knocked over by energy blasts.
threat and horror
Moderate threat includes a character having flashbacks to her mother's death, and is haunted by the spirit of an ancestor.
drugs
There are references to an illegal futuristic drug that is injected through the skin with a two pronged contraption. There is also a scene in which a character is found dead after a suspected overdose, and scenes in which drug addicts carry red marks on their necks from the two pronged injector.
injury detail
There are scenes of moderate injury detail in which a fantastical whip leaves a cut on a young girl's back and a burn on the hand of a person who tries to grip it.
additional issues
There is a post-coital scene.

  • Classified date

    23/08/2021

  • Language

    English