The short film “Chocolate With Sprinkles,” written and directed by Huriyyah Muhammad, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
The film is inspired by memories of Muhammad growing up in her family’s Cleveland, Ohio donut bakery.
According to the film description:
On their 25th wedding anniversary, a bickering couple is given one day to do something they haven’t done in 25 years – work on their marriage.
“Chocolate With Sprinkles,” starring Reno Wilson and Keisha Thompson, won the 2024 HBO Short Film Competition.
Muhammad told Ebony.com:
It’s always a lot of twists and turns, and you have to believe in yourself, and you have to sacrifice. You constantly have to prove yourself. I feel like I’m on the edge of just stepping into the industry in a whole new way and being looked at as a very different type of creator, so it’s very exciting.
In her director’s statement on the film’s website, she says:
Even while the world devalues so much of my humanity as a Black, Muslim woman, because of them, I know who I am.
Check out the trailer below.
