Netflix Introduced Us To ‘Strong Black’ Programming During ESSENCE Festival Of Culture
The 40-Year-Old Version, which made history earlier this year by winning the Directing Award-U.S. Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival, is being produced by Lena Waithe and was acquired by Netflix.“Filmmaking and storytelling is my activism,” the award-winning director told The Real Quick‘s Danielle Young during a panel at the ESSENCE Festival of Culture‘s Entertainment All Access program.Blank’s movie follows Radha, a newly single poet who’s reconciling with turning 40 and rejection until she ignites her first love—rapping.