There is a new indie sci-fi movie that many are talking about due to the plot placing Black women at the center of a superhero narrative. Fast Color is out now in select theaters.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress from known films like Beyond The Lights and A Wrinkle in Time, is starring in a new movie about a young woman on the run after her supernatural abilities are discovered. She returns to her families farmhouse and attempts to make her amends with her mother, played by actress Lorraine Toussaint, known from Orange Is the New Black and The Village, and her daughter who she left behind, played by Saniyya Sidney, who has risen to stardom from her main role in Fox’s new drama The Passage. The characters’ struggles are heightened by an eight-year drought across America.

The film was written by director Julia Hart and her husband, producer Jordan Horowitz. Hart’s main mission was to create a feminist tale focused as much on personal struggle as the superhero image too.

“I wanted to tell a story that had women and mothers as superheroes,” the director said. “So much of the superhero iconography is male-dominated. It’s about destruction. It’s about creating a bunch of buildings and then blowing them up to save the world. I wanted to tell the female version of that, which is to create something in order to save the world.”

Watch the trailer of Fast Color below:

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