“Dear White People” is a crowd-funded movie…
It won an award a the Sundance Film Festival…
Sold out at the London Film Festival…
The movie could not get distribution the UK…
Eventually the New Black Film Collective bought the film rights and distributed themselves, using their reserve funds…
It won an award a the Sundance Film Festival…
Sold out at the London Film Festival…
The movie could not get distribution the UK…
Eventually the New Black Film Collective bought the film rights and distributed themselves, using their reserve funds…
The NBFC then had start a petition to get a better response from the cinemas to show the piece - It seems that UK distributers & cinemas perceived that their was not a big enough audience…
Continually I hear the sound bite “Support Black Businesses”…
Really – “Support Black Businesses”…?
The thing that stood out the most to me was, besides the outspoken black woman accompanying me, was that there was not a single black person in the audience “Support Black Businesses”…!
The thing that stood out the most to me was, besides the outspoken black woman accompanying me, was that there was not a single black person in the audience “Support Black Businesses”…!
No comments:
Post a Comment