![]() ![]() ![]() But thank goodness there are folks out there who want to change things, who want to make things better. Filmmakers like Lee Daniels, like Spike Lee, like Ava DuVernay - I think they are inspired by the struggle that went on before them.Īnd so the pace is sluggish. I considered myself fairly knowledgeable about black film history (read: I took a course in College), but now realize that was the equivalent of thinking I could parlez-vous after one year of high school French: there was so much more. I think that the future for Black film is very bright. Wil Haygood spins one-hundred years of film history into book magic. How do these things keep happening? Why do they keep happening to Black filmmakers? Because if you look back 100 years into film, then you see the pain and you see the effort and you see the struggle. Which is why we need to know the history. And that was spawned in 2015, when there were no Black actors or actresses nominated. And we later had a movement that became known as #OscarsSoWhite. Many people were upset that David or Ava were not nominated for Oscars. Many people had questions - how come we are only just now, in 2014, seeing a big epic film about Martin Luther King Jr.? Why have we had to wait so long? Selma was such a huge hit that it really started to wake so many people up. ![]()
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