She fights to be heard when men like Damon and Peter Farrelly silence or undermine her. Why her success matters: On this season of Project Greenlight, Brown serves as the sole woman of color in a sea of white men.
I'm doing okay, but it's still surprising."
I really thought that we were beyond that. "That's the thing that I'm running up against, and I'm a little surprised at that. "The challenge is that the powers that be, without being vague, being that films that have black actors and quality black actors and talent behind them don't get the type of budget and financing that lesser actors who, maybe not ethnically specifically, get," she said in an interview with in 2007.
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To have a film about race be her biggest professional credit feels appropriate for Brown, who hasn't been shy about talking about diversity in the industry. Dear White People performed respectably at the box office, especially for a small independent film about race relations at a fictional Ivy League college. Yet her most prominent "ditty" of all is 2014's Dear White People.īrown served as a producer on director Justin Simien's breakout film, which took Sundance Film Festival by storm last year.
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She worked on a host of web series and films produced by WIGS, a female-focused production channel. Elegance was one of Indiewire’s 25 LBGT faces to watch in 2019, and a 2018 grantee of winner of the Maynor Biggers Artist Fund.Race and White People : Brown brought her experience producing into several different fields. “Buck, “his most recent short, was a Sundance 2020 official selection. The Inspection, his forthcoming feature narrative script, is supported by Tribeca All Access and Film Independent Fast Track, and is being financed by Gamechanger Films. He is the executive producer/creator of Viceland’s GLAAD- nominated and Cannes MIPCOM winning series My House. With Pier Kids, Elegance is the winner of Emerging Talent for Outfest 2019 and a Documentary Feature honorable mention at the New Orleans Film Festival (2019). His documentary feature Pier Kidsfollows three queer and trans homeless youth on NYC’s iconic Christopher Street Pier to show the intricate ways queer people of color utilize public space to build chosen family. “Walk For Me,”his award-winning debut narrative short about a young trans girl whose secret life is discovered by her mother at a gay ball, played in over 100 festivals worldwide. Today, he holds a BS from Columbia University and MFA from NYU Tisch Graduate Film. Seeing is believing, and it is time for the masses to see different things.”Įlegance Bratton began making films as a U.S. Many Black folks and people of color believe the limitations placed on characters of color are the ceiling of what’s possible in real life. Many white folks think they understand Black people because of the film and television industry. It is time to give people of color a sense of the power they hold within and to do so we must dispense with any notion of the supposed inferiority of non-white people. It’s time to challenge audiences to see the world in new ways.
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In the essay, “Seeing is Believing and We Need A New Way to See,” Bratton writes, “Films and TV shows that feature the other are consistently underfunded for marketing and other forms of outreach. Bratton aims to shine a light on a community within the community, specifically the 40 percent of queer youth who are both homeless and people of color.” Rejected on account of their sexuality, and caught up in the precariousness of survival and self-preservation, the kids forge their own world on the margins of society.įrom Keith Uhlich’s review in The Hollywood Reporter: “The first onscreen title: “In the wake of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the world cheered the advancement of white queers and ignored the fates of queer people of color.” A harsh truth frequently ignored - even oppressed minorities have strata of privilege, and any revolutionary strides more often benefit those of a certain economic, social or genetic bent. Krystal uses the ballroom scene as a way to survive but is forced to return to her disapproving blood family for support when her gay family proves unable to help her. Desean has reached the point where committing a crime or deliberately contracting HIV might be the best alternative to escaping a life on the streets. Casper, a young black man, is left vulnerable in his pursuit of true love while dealing with homelessness.
Pier Kids interrogates the meaning of community within at-risk LGBT teens of colour who congregate around Christopher Street Pier in New York City.
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As always, the Visiting Filmmakers Series is free and open to the public.
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