ByKyle Buchanan, Bilge Ebiri, and Stacey Wilson Hunt
sundance 2016
Aja Naomi King’s The Birth of a Nation Breakout“Diversity is all-inclusive; it means everyone. When someone says diversity, what they’re really trying to say is all stories should be normal stories.”
ByJada Yuan
sundance 2016
DJ MikeQ Brings That ‘C*nt Feeling’ to Kiki Doc“What Paris Is Burning was to the culture,” ballroom’s go-to DJ says of Sara Jordenö’s new documentary, “I feel this could be that and much more.”
Should We Expect Birth of a Nation to Be a Hit?What do the past performances of Sundance’s major acquisitions suggest about the prospects of The Birth of a Nation and Manchester by the Sea?
ByKevin Lincoln
sundance 2016
Gabrielle Union Disappears in Birth of a Nation“I asked for her not to have any lines. It’s more symbolic of the lack of control or power that black women had, and have, over our own bodies.”
Sundance Review: First Girl I Loved“All language, it seems, is flexible – both in the world of the film and in how it communicates with its audience.”
ByBilge Ebiri
sundance 2016
Music Doesn’t Save in Sing Street, But It Does SateSing Street is far more boisterous and certainly funnier than Once, but it remains in a minor key; “finding happiness in sadness,” is how one character puts it.
