BET Premieres MegaMind Media’s ‘Holiday Heartbreak’

Directed by Charles Jones, written by Tiffany Yancy, and produced by Tressa Smallwood and Ibrahim Yilla, Holiday Heartbreak, follows a helpless romantic unknowingly cursed with relationship problems passed down from her father’s bad luck of mishandling women. In honor of her 30th birthday, ‘Monica McCoy’ portrayed by Maryam Basir (The Chi, Chicago PD) is looking forward to spending quality time with her childhood friends, and loving father, ‘Mike McCoy’ (Michael Colyar) for the Christmas holiday.

They have a very close relationship, the kind little girls would dream about until their candid conversations culminate with the realization of why Monica believes she is cursed and may never find “the one” emanating from her father’s complicated romantic entanglements with LisaRaye McCoy’s character, ‘Summer St. John,’ and ‘Joyce,’ portrayed by AJ Johnson. Fast forward to her birthday celebration when Monica instantly falls in love with a chauvinistic philandering comedian, ‘Wild Bill,’ portrayed by Kountry Wayne.

The film premieres on Wednesday, December 16th on BET & BET Her at 6 pm ET/PT and on BET+ on December 20th. Filmed earlier this year, the project was one of the first to meet all stringent, numerous COVID protocols and get the green light to shoot in Maryland’s Prince George’s County.

MegaMind Media is an American film and production company specializing in book to film adaptations and original television series and programming founded by Award Winning Book Publisher, Tressa Azarel Smallwood. In 2003 after writing her first novel, Tressa resigned from her teaching tenure in the Maryland school system to fulfill her dream of becoming an entrepreneur.

Tressa has produced several award-winning movies that have been adapted to film and TV series for networks such as ViacomCBS/BET, TV ONE, Urban Movie Channel, and more. With an ever-increasing volume of content, Tressa has positioned MegaMind Media to become the fastest-growing film production company in America. https://www.tressaazarel.com/

Occhi had the opportunity to talk to LisaRaye McCoy and Tressa Smallwood about the film. Check out the interview below!

LisaRaye McCoy Photo: Ron P. Jaffe/BET. Images provided by Integrated PR and courtesy of MegaMind

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