Input from When They See Us film director Ava DuVernay was a factor in Oprah Winfrey’s process of deciding to withdraw as an executive producer from the Sundance Film Festival-bound documenta…
January 25 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it will now be looking for a distributor after Winfrey also pulled the film from the Apple TV+ streaming platform.today on her decision, Winfrey said she had misgivings about its direction. So she sent the documentary to DuVernay for her opinion on whether the two filmmakers “captured the nuances of hip-hop culture and the struggles of black women.”
“She’s got Simmons on one side pressuring her, and then she’s got a film on the other side that she doesn’t agree with,” DuVernay said to the. “So if she walks away from the film, she seems like she’s caving to Simmons, and if she stays with the film, then she’s putting her name on something that she feels doesn’t quite hit the mark.”
“We had a really great working relationship with Ms. Winfrey, Harpo, and Apple throughout the many stages of crafting the film,” Dick and Ziering said in a statement to the. “We feel we more than delivered a finished film that is in keeping with the qualities of excellence, integrity and veracity that we hold dear.”
The film was accepted to Sundance, and Apple and Harpo issued a joint news release in early December that called the film “a profound examination of race, gender, class and intersectionality, and the toll assaults take on their victims and society at large.”story published Friday suggested a different motive. It said there was an “intense campaign by Mr. Simmons and his supporters to get Ms. Winfrey to pull the plug.
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