{"id":796,"date":"2023-01-17T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.feelnubia.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2023-01-17T00:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T00:27:49","slug":"minority-films-excluded-from-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/index.php\/2023\/archive-2\/minority-films-excluded-from-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Films Excluded from Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the 2010 Oscars, many hoped that the awards ceremony had finally outgrown its bigotry. At the 2010 Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow won the very first award for a female director and Geoffrey Fletcher took home the first award ever been won by an African-American screenwriter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"system-readmore\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the Award ceremony reverted to its tight-lipped conservative mien.\u00a0 Conversely, Sundance featured a significant number of minority movies this year. Ava DuVernay &#8211; founder of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement has jokingly called the Independent Film Festival &#8220;Blackdance&#8221; due to its parade of minority films this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sundance proves that quality minority films are being produced but not by the studios.&nbsp; Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, Martha Lauzen explains: &#8220;The film industry does not exist in a vacuum; it is part of a larger culture, and our attitudes about gender and race are extremely deeply held. Those attitudes don&#8217;t change overnight or with an Oscar win.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For African-Americans, it&#8217;s a matter of timing and a more systemic issue, said Gregg Kilday, film editor for The Hollywood Reporter. &#8220;It is still difficult for black filmmakers to do movies about black film matter\u2026 serious African-American movies are probably even harder to get financed.&#8221; Jeff Friday &#8211; Chief Executive Officer of Film Life and founder of the American Black Film Festival asks: &#8220;We have to challenge the studio system,&#8221; Friday said. &#8220;Why are studios not making films that represent the people of this country?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the 2010 Oscars, many hoped that the awards ceremony had finally outgrown its bigotry. 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