Watch ‘The Birth of A Nation’ Official Teaser [VIDEO]

The teaser for The Birth of a Nation has been released. The film is a 2016 period drama film about Nat Turner, the African-American slave who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831.

The film is written, produced, and directed by Nate Parker, who also stars as Nat Turner. Parker wrote the screenplay and petitioned financiers to invest in the film. It ultimately had a $10 million production budget and started filming in May 2015 in the U.S. state of Georgia.

Along with Parker, the film features Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller, and Gabrielle Union all in supporting roles.

The film premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2016. Fox Searchlight Pictures bought worldwide rights to the film in a $17.5 million deal, the largest deal at the film festival to date. At the end of the festival, it won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Check out the teaser below.

It hits theaters October 7th.

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