Lukas Behnken also produces with Zak Tanjeloff EPing with Lee. The film was independently financed and produced by Mark Burg and Ben Ammar’s Eagle Pictures, which handled world sales. “My ambition with this film was to reflect the Black experience and to create a dialogue that adds context and accountability and allows us to push and change the narrative around race and justice in this country.Īlong with the CAA-repped Parker, American Skin stars Power’s Omari Hardwick, Beau Knapp, Luke Cage’s Theo Rossi, Shane Paul McGhie, Milauna Jackson, Vanessa Bell Calloway, and Sierra Capri. “BET+ played a pivotal role in getting American Skin to market and we were thrilled to have a partner who understood the gravity and importance of bringing this story to life,” added Parker. After justice is denied, a documentary crew accompanied Jefferson convenes his own trial – a story that is tragically all the more acute as the trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd continues. The honest rating for this film is 7.1 but I confess my heart wants to give it a 9.Premiering at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Filming Italy Award for Best Film of the Sconfini Section, American Skin tells the tale of Lincoln Jefferson (Parker), an Iraqi War veteran who takes matters into his own hands after his son is shot dead in front of him by a white cop who pulled them over in an upscale white neighborhood. 'American Skin' is not just timely, it's incontrovertibly relevant. However, the next best time to start something is now. The fact that this movie was produced in 2019, before the BLM/George Floyd-inspired protests and the Capitol-storming is a testament to why these conversations need to be had and why that time has long-passed. The production may not be US$100M-summer-blockbuster fare but that wasn't the intent, and would have sorely taken away from the delivery. Director: Spike Lee Stars: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris. Those that presented negative comments and ratings based on 'poor production value' are using that as an excuse for bias. Spike Lee s vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973. Spike Lee Calls Nate Parkers New Film a Part of HistoryAt the Venice Film Festival, the American Skin filmmaker apologized for his past tone-deaf behavior. The production value of the movie is also fine. ![]() Communication and understanding is the key to advancing all solutions to problems, especially considering how polarized the US has become in recent times. Not 'I-yield-3-minutes-to-the-gentleperson-from-Georgia'-type conversation but rather direct, constant and heated - yet metered - conversation. ![]() If even half of the reviewers bothered to watch the movie, they would realize that the actual purpose of the movie - in this writer's opinion - is the act of hard conversation. ![]() The irony lies in the direct response of the up-voting and both sides not consciously realizing how closely those actions mirror the social issue that the movie attempts to highlight. Photo: Courtesy of Venice Film Festival You’re a part of history, Spike Lee told a sold-out. The most ironic thing about the reviews for this movie is the purposeful down-voting due to the subject matter and - likely - simply because of the trailer. A still from Nate Parker’s American Skin, which premiered at Venice Film Festival on Sunday.
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