EXCLUSIVE: Damon Dash is partnering with Black-owned film distribution company Homestead Entertainment to help independent filmmakers bring their content to the masses.

Under the terms of the deal, Dash—under his Dame Dash Studios banner— will curate film, TV, and digital content for the partnership and Homestead will handle the global distribution for the films acquired through the partnership.

Dash co-founded Roc-a-Fella Records with Jay-Z and Kareem Burke in the ’90s and has since signed some of Hip Hop’s seminal artists, including Kanye West, developed and owned several major apparel lines including Rachel Roy, and written, directed, produced, and acted in a long list of Hollywood movies and TV shows. Dash discovered Kevin Hart and produced Lee Daniels’s first two films The Woodsman and Shadow Boxer.

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