I felt a similar set of emotions today when I sat, once again, in the Eccles and watched “Ricky,” Rashad Frett's drama about a young man from East Hartford, Conn., named Ricardo Smith (Stephan ...

Rashad Frett arrives at Sundance with his debut feature, Ricky, following work as a combat medic, a stint in business school, and directing an independent TV pilot he called “a Connecticut version of ...

“Ricky,” a new feature film by Hartford-raised director Rashad Frett, was one of the breakout successes of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film won an award in the ...