In 1995, while trying to buy a movie ticket, Dee Rees got an early lesson in the bias of film industry economics. Then a freshman at Florida A&m University, Rees went to the local multiplex in Tallahassee to see Dead Presidents, a crime drama about Black Vietnam veterans directed by the Hughes brothers, who were among a group of Black filmmakers making strides in the business in the ’90s, alongside directors like Spike Lee, John Singleton and Julie Dash.
“[The theater owners] weren’t selling out the theater,” Rees says. “They were saying, ‘We don’t ...
“[The theater owners] weren’t selling out the theater,” Rees says. “They were saying, ‘We don’t ...
- 6/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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