Black Pope (2019 film)

Black Pope is a 2019 Canadian-American religious blaxploitation action comedy film written by Phelan Morkel and Tamitha Cunningham and directed by Cunningham.

The plot, taking place in the far future of "A Couple Weeks From Now A.D.", focuses on Pope Lorenzo, the first African-American Pope of the Catholic Church, who must avenge his father's death while also ridding the church of "sinners" and fundamentalists using a "holy army" of martial artists. The film is a parody and homage of the blaxploitation genre as well as a self-parody of distributor 's filmography. Black Pope was shot over 2 months in the area using digital camera equipment simulating 35mm film. The film premiered at the in March 2019 and was released on April 8, 2019.