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 brilliant first feature, “Test Pattern” (which is now in virtual cinemas via Kino Marquee), follows a young woman in Austin, Texas, named Renesha (Brittany S. Hall), who meets ...

Exclusive: The first-time feature filmmaker's BlackStar winner is one the year's first true discoveries. The year 2021 might still be a bit new, but it’s already high time for a film poised to become ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

“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 ...

Shatara Michelle Ford’s lean, smart debut feature confronts us with our presumptions about what rape and victimhood look like — onscreen and in life. By Devika Girish When you purchase a ticket for an ...

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 ...