A plethora of movies featuring diverse talent in front of and behind the camera will showcase under-represented stories at the film festival in Utah
In January I attended the Sundance film festival, where the most buzzed-about movie was the unconventional drama Sorry to Bother You. It captivated audiences not just because it boasts a cast filled with talented actors of color (including Tessa Thompson, LaKeith Stanfield and Steven Yeun). It’s also because it dared to paint outside the lines of what has often been presented to us as the obligatory black narrative weighted by themes of trauma and violence. That’s not to diminish those two things: they are part of the historical fabric. But a black movie that shows ordinary black people in an extraordinary story is also worth celebrating.
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