Andra Day, Daniel Dae Kim and More Discuss Diversity in Hollywood and How Cultural Representation is Key to Box Office Success
variety.comVariety’s Angelique Jackson at the Sundance Film Festival as a part of Adobe’s Fireside Chats with Changemakers in Film. Watch all three conversations below: Andra Day and Kyle Bowser, Senior Vice President of NAACP Hollywood Bureau “I’ve been hearing this thing in the past few years about no more slave stories, no more past and all this stuff, and no more Black pain porn.
And I don’t like the term because I think it boils it down. I think in order for us to be fully represented and fully realized, we need both,” said actor and singer Andra Day in conversation with NAACP senior vice president of the hollywood bureau, Kyle Bowser.
Day co-stars in Titus Kaphar’s “Exhibiting Forgiveness,” an official selection in Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Competition, which doesn’t shy away from the pain of trauma.
The film follows a Black artist who is reunited with his estranged father, a recovering drug addict hoping for reconciliation.
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