Birth of a Nation shows blunt truth; Story of slave rebellion promising debut for new director

When the film about Nat Turner and his 1831 slave rebellion premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, it was held up, unfairly or not, as everyone's great hope to save us from another year of #OscarsSoWhite. Some handful of months later, it became representative of something else when the focus...

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Published inChronicle-herald (Halifax, N.S.)
Main Author Bahr, Lindsey
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Halifax, N.S CNW Group Ltd 07.10.2016
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Motion picture directors & producers
Motion picture festivals
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Summary:When the film about Nat Turner and his 1831 slave rebellion premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, it was held up, unfairly or not, as everyone's great hope to save us from another year of #OscarsSoWhite. Some handful of months later, it became representative of something else when the focus shifted to the then little-known fact that its creator and star, Nate Parker, had a past that involved not only a rape allegation, but the eventual suicide of the accuser.
ISSN:0828-1807