The disruptive power of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements has shifted the conversation around storytelling about underrepresented and marginalized communities, even as the backlash in the U.S. and other countries has swung the pendulum to the (far) right, putting many of those gains at risk.
But while the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back DEI initiatives are the latest harbinger of a cultural correction that threatens to turn back the clock to a darker past, Black documentary filmmakers at the Joburg Film Festival said they’re looking to seize this moment to disrupt and rethink widely accepted historical narratives, especially around the Black experience.
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