Diop, winner of the Grand Prix at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, grew up in a creative and inspiring family. She was born in Paris to a French mother and a Senegalese father. Her mother was a ph…
Along with a good portion of the social-media savvy world, Bravo devoured Detroit waitress and stripper Aziah “Zola” Wells’ 148-tweet story of sex trafficking, kidnapping and attempted suicide when it went viral in 2015. There was, she thought, the makings of a compelling film here, one that pulled back the curtain on a part of [...
In 2013, writer-director-star Blank had been creating a web series when her mother, Carol, an artist and teacher, died. The series stalled. She’d written a lot of music for the show and didn’t quite know what to do with it. At the urging of friends, the Brooklyn playwright and performer dreamed up the persona RadhaMUSprime. [...]Genius exists in anyone skillful enough to turn a nightmare Tinder date into a political protest about Black America’s fate.
In French, the name Bedos carries a certain reputation. The son of beloved local comedian Guy Bedos, Nicolas always knew he wanted to make movies, but just because he had a famous father didn’t mean the path was necessarily easy. Despite collaborating with dad early on, and writing several original plays in his mid-20s, it [...
Anthony McCarten was in Rome when his sister called to tell him that one of their cousins had passed away. She asked him to stop by a church and light candle. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter headed to St. Peter’s Square, where Pope Francis was giving an open mass. “Having been raised Catholic in quite an intensely [...]
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