Optioned for film by Amblin Partners with Octavia Spencer to produce. Essence bestselling author Donna Hill brings us an emotional love story set against the powerful backdrop of the civil rights movement that gripped a nation―a story as timely as it is timeless... The year is 1963. In Harlem, the epicenter of Black culture, the fight for equality has never been stronger. The time is now. Enough is enough. Yet even within its ranks, a different kind of battle rages. Love thy neighbor? Or rise up against your oppressors? Jason Tanner has just arrived in New York to help spread the message of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., of passive resistance, while beat poet Anita Hopkins believes the teachings of Malcolm X with all her heart: that the way to true freedom is “by any means necessary.” When Jason sees Anita perform her poetry at the iconic B-Flat lounge, he’s transfixed. And Anita has never met anyone who can match her wit for wit like this… One movement, two warring ideologies―can love be enough to unite them? Confessions in B-Flat is a celebration of the hard-won victories of those who came before us, and a stark reminder of just how far we still have to go. Octavia Spencer, Amblin Partners' Kristie Macosko Krieger to Produce Film Adaptation of Donna Hill's 'Confessions in B-Flat' (EXCLUSIVE) Variety Magazine By Angelique Jackson Plus Icon Amblin Partners has secured the film rights to "Confessions in B-Flat," with Academy Award-winning actor and producer Octavia Spencer, four-time Oscar-nominated producer Kristie Macosko Krieger and Aimee Carpenter set to produce. The 2020 novel, from Essence bestselling author Donna Hill, tells an emotional love story set amid the Civil Rights Movement, following two young people, Anita and Jason, who meet and fall in love despite their clashing political beliefs. Maya Dunbar ("Ordinary Joe," 'Bluff City Law") is adapting the book for the screen. Spencer is producing the adaptation via her Orit Entertainment production company, with Carpenter producing under her Marcy Place Productions banner. Executive producers are Brian Clisham and Tara Taylor, with Liz Pelletier serving as co-producer. Jeb Brody, Amblin Partners' president of production, and Mia Maniscalco, SVP of creative affairs, will oversee the project for the studio. Donna Hill , author of books including Divas, Inc. and In My Bedroom , lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has more than fifty published titles to her credit, three of which ( Intimate Betrayal, Masquerade, A Private Affair ) were adapted for television. She has been featured in Essence , the Daily News , USA Today , Today's Black Woman , and Black Enterprise , among many others.