Sundance Premiere ‘To Live And Die And Live’ Sets Spring Theatrical Release

EXCLUSIVE: Qasim Basir’s Sundance Film Festival feature To Live and Die and Live is getting a theatrical release on May 16 in AMC multiplexes from AuthentiQ Films & CinemaStreet Pictures.

Samuel Goldwyn Films picked up digital rights to the movie, which will land in the home later this year.

Basir’s feature, and ode to Detroit, was lauded by top critics at its Sundance Film Festival debut in 2023 with 89% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Hollywood filmmaker Muhammad returns to his home city (Amin Joseph) to bury his stepfather and settle his accounts. But as he is thrust into old and new relationships his struggles with addiction and loss may finish him before he finishes the task.

The pic also stars Skye P. Marshall, Omari Hardwick, Cory Hardrict, Maryam Basir and Dana Gourrier. To Live and Die and Live is a AuthentiQ Films, Significant Productions, CinemaStreet Pictures and Confluential Films production. Producers are Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, Joseph, Samantha Basir, Dana Offenbach, Cory Hardrict, and Omari Hardwick. 

“Thrilled to be working with Samuel Goldwyn Films again. They’re a wonderful group dedicated to film and, especially, filmmakers,” said Basir.

EPs are Cory Ward, Katrina McGee, William A. Smith, Brent Dial, Reggie Hartsfield, Tommy Oliver, Andre Gaines, Datari Turner, Tremayne Norris, Lasana O. Hotep, Bunia Parker, David Kwan, Stefan Desil, Tommy Duncan, Roger Kamau, Jon Croel, Jashod Belcher, Kamau Smith, Andrew Hawkins, Rochelle Riley, Duane Jabari Thomas, Trevite Willis and Kareem Mortimer. 

Basir was recently in Austin at the SXSW Film Festival to premiere the next feature which he co-wrote, The Dutchman, from director Andre Gaines and also written by Gaines, and Amiri Baraka. The Dutchman stars André Holland, Kate Mara, Stephen McKinley Henderson and will be released later this year. Basir’s past credits include the one-shot A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. starring Meagan Good and Hardwick which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Samuel Goldwyn Films.