New Directors Flesh Out Black America, All of It

[sunoftheskye]

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[ladypolitik]

But “Pariah” is important, not simply as a promising directorial debut, but also as the most visible example of the mini-movement of young black filmmakers telling stories that complicate assumptions about what “black film” can be by embracing thorny issues of identity, alienation and sexuality.

'bout muthafuckin time, too. There's an entire universe beyond Tyler Perry films.

(Not finished reading, but I had to get that outta my system)

[rex_dart]

I love that you couldn't wait until the end of the article to get that out. ♥

[sunoftheskye]

you mean you're NOT here for all that coonery and buffoonery? what's there not to love about mammy stories and JEEBUS coming to save the day.

[girly123]

Not to mention the Working Class Christian Gentleman™ that every black woman needs to be complete. It's just too hard to be without a man for any period of time, you know.

[redstar826]

ohhh, I'd heard about Pariah. I'll have to try to check it out once it plays around here.

[ms_mmelissa]

I've wanted to see Yelling at the Sky and Pariah since articles started coming out about them a year ago when they hit sundance. I need Pariah to open in more theatres!

Kudos to Spike Lee for the mentoring he's doing. I couldn't agree with this quote more:

Don’t make one film and then travel with that one print to film festivals. You need to get the next one going and the one after that. The idea is to build a body of work.

I've definitely noticed that while its hard enough to find movies made by women and poc it is even harder to find minority directors with large bodies of work. The same holds true for literature, I think.

[poetic_pixie_13]

I need to get my hands on Pariah. It looks fantastic. I love, love, love seeing queer women of colour telling their own stories. It's just, ugh, I can't even describe. There are so many issues with family and culture and what being queer and being a woman means within the context of your family.

Just going to shut up and fangirl before this becomes 'cool story, bro.'

[lone_concertina]

A friend of a friend (Honeychild Coleman) is on the soundtrack for this. It looks so goddamn good and has some INCREDIBLE musicians lined up for the tunes.