Black directors from the 90s talk about Hollywood pulling the plug
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"Straight Outta Brooklyn" one of the dopest movies ever.
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“I’m Sorry for 2025”
It has been a gift and a curse. Whilst it has allowed the industry to become democratized, due to lower barriers to entry, it has also become oversaturated, thus meaning less quality control.The internet streaming services has changed the game...You dont have to go to the major film studios anymore... Black filmmakers should be eating...
The best way to describe it is... not anyone can be a doctor. You have to get your qualifications and then go through training before you’re allowed to practice. Hence the high barrier to entry.
Now anyone can do stand up comedy. Just sign up and go on stage. Previous experience is not a prerequisite. It’s the same with these social media comedians. All they need is a camera phone and they go viral.
So whilst there’s a great opportunity for black film makers... there is so much trash to wade through before you find quality. A lot of people aren’t honing their craft before they release their products.
Many of the films mentioned in the OP were great of films..Daughters of the Dust, Just Another Girl on the IRT, Straight Out of Brooklyn etc. I know how Julie Dash was out casted by Hollywood because I learned about her in one of my Black film classes in undergrad. She wouldn't conform and write/direct movies using the seven stereotypical Black archetypes (The Mammy, the buck, the c00n, tragic mulatto, jezebel, sapphire and the brute). Every Black film financed in Hollywood must contain these archetypes. If not, your film will not see the light of day. That's why Julie Dash was shunned.
This quote could possibly explain that awful Harriet Tubman and Madame CJ Walker biopic scripts. The outright lies (Bigger Long, Harriet/Master love story, Harriet walking to freedom, CJ's fictional "lesbian" daughter, CJ story turned into a colorism story) were written in the film and everyone went along with it for financial and workability reasons. On the flip side, it still makes you a sell out for going along anyway.
This quote could possibly explain that awful Harriet Tubman and Madame CJ Walker biopic scripts. The outright lies (Bigger Long, Harriet/Master love story, Harriet walking to freedom, CJ's fictional "lesbian" daughter, CJ story turned into a colorism story) were written in the film and everyone went along with it for financial and workability reasons. On the flip side, it still makes you a sell out for going along anyway.
Explain please.it’s more than just ownership breh
As someone who writes, directs, and stars in his own projects let me tell you, there is an ART in and of itself in playing the game. It can be hard, it can be frustrating. Especially as a black man. The only person who really has mastered the game and actually has broken down on how it feels and how its played is Donald Glover.
Read his interviews between his second album all the way up to the release of the first season of Atlanta. He literally gives ALL the answers if you read between the lines
get these nets
Veteran
Which question was that?
BossMobb
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much respect. Do you plan to direct any films?
At this juncture no. I never say never but I enjoy long form storytelling (i.e. episodic) too much to be constrained by a film
Tyler already created a little fortune before he ever made a feature film.
He didn't need financing just distribution.
That cocaine was the only plug being pulled.
Nobody pulled the plug on black directors because they spoke out on racism. Hollywood "pulled the plug" on these black directors because they had a spark when they started then went 
. Strange how Tyler Perry, with all the criticism thrown his way, somehow was able to build a prosperous brand and is relevant till this day, yet these cats couldn't. 