Blind Passion

Blind Faith is a 1998 American drama television film directed by Ernest R. Dickerson and written by Frank Military. It stars Charles S. Dutton, Courtney B. Vance, Kadeem Hardison, Garland Whitt and Lonette McKee. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and aired on February 1, 1998, on Showtime. The film's screenplay was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, while Dutton received two nominations for awards, and Vance garnered one nomination. Set in the 1950s, during a murder trial, the film deals with themes of racism and homophobia. It was filmed in Toronto, Ontario. The film is dedicated to Yusef Hawkins, a black teenager who died 9 years eariler in August 1989, after being attacked and shot by a white mob in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.