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‘Sylvie’s Love,’ ‘Mahalia,’ ‘Uncle Frank’ EPs Discuss Playing With History for Emmy-Nominated TV Movies

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Amber Dowling In order to address the future, sometimes you need to delve into the past. Most of this year’s Emmy-nominated TV movies do exactly that, exploring themes of love, faith and friendship in order to heal harmful past narratives and home in on the humanity of their characters.When Eugene Ashe was penning the script for “Sylvie’s Love,” the love story of a saxophonist and a young woman, starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, for Amazon Prime Video, he specifically wanted to focus on the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement.

His goal was to highlight the humanity of Black leads during that time instead of the trauma so many other films have already tackled. “We’re not represented that well.

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