Reelblack TV caught up screenwriter and filmmaker, Geoffrey Fletcher at the Montclair Film Festival, and talked to him about defining black
film.
Fletcher, a Connecticut native who penned and won an Oscar for the
"Precious" screenplay in 2010 -- and is reportedly the only black
filmmaker to win an Academy Award for writing -- makes his feature directorial
debut with the movie, "Violet & Daisy"; which stars Alexis
Bledel, Saoirse Ronan, and James Gandolfini (of The Sopranos fame).
Geoffrey Fletcher weighs-in
on whether or not black film is a monolithic medium, what it was like writing
the screenplay for “Precious” as well as the feedback he got from viewers, and whether
he feels any sense of obligation to create narratives that are solely based on
the black experience and themes.
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