Jessica Kingdon ('Ascension'), Stanley Nelson ('Attica'), Jonas Poher Rasmussen ('Flee'), Rintu Thomas ('Writing with Fire') and Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson ('Summer of Soul') speak with THR's Rebecca Keegan about their Oscar-nominated films.
Timing played a key role for Thompson as well, in part because of how the events of 2020, in particular the civil rights protests that exploded globally, lent a new sense of currency to the issues inspiring the concertgoers in, who are attending the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. “I got this project in late 2017, early 2018,” Thompson said. “So I knew that I had a certain key audience that would be all in, which of course is Baby Boomers and maybe Generation X.
When it came to telling their stories, the filmmakers relied on different tools. Much of Kingdon’s film is set inside Chinese industrial settings. “These are factories and where there’s a lot of dehumanizing labor happening,” Kingdon said. “I wanted to be able to balance that with having as much first-person sensory feelings as we could. One of my favorite scenes is this young woman at a plastic water bottle factory, where she’s placing labels onto plastic water bottles.
Though the movies vary wildly in craft and approach, they share something in their choice of subject. “Each of these films is about lives that would typically be made invisible,” said Thomas. “For me, storytelling is really about that, about finding a reality that’s not necessarily my own, but finding a part of me there. And then the circle just keeps expanding, and then my story, their story, becomes our story. And that’s what I find absolutely exciting, dynamic about nonfiction filmmaking.
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