Project Detail

The Man in My Basement

The Man in My Basement

Synopsis

Charles Blakey, an African American man living in Sag Harbor, is stuck in a rut, out of luck and about to lose his ancestral home when a peculiar white businessman with a European accent offers to rent his basement for the summer.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

Details

Year
2025
Type of project
Features
Director
Nadia Latif
Producer
John Giwa-Amu, Diane Houslin, Len Rowles
Executive Producer
Nick Batzias, Dave Bishop
Screenwriter
Nadia Latif, Walter Mosley
Principal cast
Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Supported by Ffilm Cymru Wales

UK, US co-production

B.O.B. Filmhouse (US), Protagonist Pictures (UK), Tall Street Productions (US)

Protagonist Pictures

Gilmoora House
57-61 Mortimer Street
London
W1W 8HS

Sales Company

Protagonist Pictures

Gilmoora House
57-61 Mortimer Street
London
W1W 8HS

Page updates

This page was last updated on 5th August 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

White Girl White Girl

Director: Nadia Latif

Year: 2019

Beth, a fifteen-year-old white girl, is seemingly lost. Over the course of an evening on the streets of East London, her interactions with the city's dwellers take darker turns. Terror appears to lie around every corner. But Beth is the real monster lurking within our city. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Cult Strand - World premiere

Galicia! Galicia!

Director: Anna Maguire, Kyle Greenberg

Year: 2026

What if you went on a holiday and the apocalypse happened? GALICIA! is a found-footage, hybrid-documentary following a couple through home video footage as they visit their friends at a winery in rural Spain and inadvertently capture the end of days. We live in a time where the sense of our impending mutually assured destruction is more real than it’s ever been. GALICIA! Takes the form of a holiday video - a document of a couple before - and after the great cataclysm. The film starts as something that feels unedited - an accidental video diary of an ordinary couple that feels somewhat ghostly as much as it is also pedestrian. As the film evolves and degrades, we are led to question the fragility of humanity, as well as its power to endure.

Animation image of two characters (Death and Little Death) standing on a cliff. A Little Death

Director: Leto Meade, Jonathan Rockefeller

Year: 2026

Death’s patience is tested as his sweet and gentle apprentice appears incapable of the task, leading him to seek professional help from the most unlikely of places. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026