The stars and director of the new BET+ series Perimeter are bringing viewers back to ’90s Atlanta. Directed by Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story co-director Armani Ortiz, Perimeter follows interconnected stories of people living and loving in Atlanta, during the time of the city’s explosion onto the modern cultural scene. Trey Mangum, Blavity/Shadow and Act’s managing editor, talked with stars Ava Mone’t, Tatyana Ali and Ortiz about what fans can expect. Ortiz said his inspiration was his own journey into the history of Atlanta. “I’m originally from New York and when I moved down to Atlanta, we were working on the Tyler Perry documentary and I started doing research on Atlanta and seeing all these little pockets of culture and how in the ’90s it was starting to form into the beautiful city that it is today,” he said. “It has a long history of Black [mayors] and the Olympics were right around the corner in 1996. With the drug game and the epidemic that was happening in New York...
