become movies.The openly-gay writer/directors have spent their careers coupled together, first gaining attention with their documentary Canvases of Courage in 2016.
The pair then focused on short films that explore issues of sexuality, race and artistic ambition, including Shame, 17 Seventeen, Versus and Against the Wall.
Now the pair embark on their most ambitious project to date: the horror thriller Antebellum.Related: WATCH: Janelle Monae dishes on her queerness, and on her new series ‘Homecoming’As written and directed by Bush & Renz, Antebellum casts Janelle Monáe as Veronica, a successful working mom with a strange connection to Eden (also played by Monae), a woman held captive by Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.