You Think You Know The Story? Watch UK Trailer For Zola

We’ve been hearing great things about Janicza Bravo‘s Zola since it’s world premiere at Sundance Film Festival. Next the film will arrive in the UK and today Sony Pictures release the UK Trailer… So you think you know the story?

This is a fascinating story that highlights the power of social media. Based on the real events on which is first told as a series of tweets (which became known as “The Story”). Presenting  as an empowering tale of female agency and take-charge determination in the face of male oppression.

This is an unforgettable and outrageous story of two women who hit the road to score quick cash dancing for money in Tampa, only to find their friendship tested when one of them isn’t who she claims to be.

“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”

Thus began the odyssey of one A’Ziah King, aka ZOLA. From acclaimed writer/director Janicza Bravo, Zola’s stranger-than-fiction saga, which she first told in a now-iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life.

Zola (newcomer Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who seduces her to a weekend partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full of “hoeism” rapidly transforms into a 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some shady guys in Tampa, and other unexpected adventures in this wild, see-it-to-believe-it tale.

Bravo’s second feature is a comedy-thriller that starts off as a free-spirited, female-centric road movie and detours into avenues both criminal and incredible. Beginning as an After Hours-like descent into the unknown, Zola builds and transforms into something else entirely: a journey reclaimed and reframed, several months later, by the person who experienced it.

The film stars Taylour Paige,Nicholas Braun and Colman Domingo.

Zola will be in UK and Irish cinemas from 6th August. If your lucky and live in London, it’s the closing gala at Sundance Film Festival London from 1st August.