Benjamin Earl Turner
Birthday: Born in in Antioch, California, USA
Deathday: Alive
Benjamin Earl Turner is a recording artist, writer, actor, and educator from Antioch, California. A frequent collaborator with creative powerhouses like Daveed Diggs from the critically acclaimed Hamilton movie to the Blindspotting TV Show. He is also featured on Chicago rapper Noname’s album “Room 25."
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Snowfall
Character: Maurice
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course....
Blindspotting
Character: Earl
Ashley was nipping at the heels of a middle class life in Oakland until Miles, her partner of 12 years and father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, leaving her to navigate a chaotic and humorous existential crisis when she’s forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister....
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We Were Hyphy
Character: Narrator
A love song to the artists, dance, music, slang, clothes and, most importantly of all, the people who came of age during the Hyphy Movement. We were there, we were hyphy....
Terminally Ill
Character: Fonzel
When a rapper is summoned to his grandmother’s deathbed, he engages in a madcap freestyle in an attempt to prevent her from dying....
Penny in the Sky
Character: August
When a man contemplating his life decides to put his fate into a coin toss, he's interrupted by the sudden appearance of a woman there to end her life as well. Now they both find themselves at a crossroads, life and death decided by heads or tails....