Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Dee Rees and F. Gary Gray are just some of the black directors who in recent years have begun to break into the industry of Hollywood, helming big budget, tentpole movies.
And what these directors are doing, says Oscar-nominated costume designer Ruth E. Carter, is ‘rewriting the language all over again so we can show Hollywood we won’t always be so independent, you can put the money behind our ideas and it will create ticket sales’.
The shifting winds in Hollywood have seen film executives begin to sit up and take notice of that exact statement, that alienating entire sections of the movie-going public is… Read the full story