The journey of politically driven independent films reveals the tension between bold storytelling and the systemic constraints of the film industry.
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The journey of politically driven independent films reveals the tension between bold storytelling and the systemic constraints of the film industry.
In a time where fiction threatens reason and misinformation reigns supreme, it may seem unwise to raise criticism against an institution as essential as medicine.
To what degree have they, Africans on the continent or anywhere else in the world, been miseducated, blinded, co-opted around this business of passports, its presumed strength or weakness faced with stringent visa requirements for some or blasé passage at immigration control for others, is always questionable.
I dreamt of having a classroom of my own one day, teaching real students that I didn’t bribe with a week of chores.
When we talk about violence in Toronto, the focus tends to be on crime committed by the poor. By the struggling and unwanted parts of the city.
The truth is, if we want our stories told, we must create our own spaces to do so.
“It's very cool to be Black right now,” Adams says, but only in a specific manner. If an artist isn’t interested in jumping headfirst into mainstream R&B or rap, or trying to sound like a variation of Drake, Daniel Caesar or Tory Lanez, then it becomes much harder to build a fanbase and gain any sort of income in Toronto off of music”.
West’s new brand of Christianity pushes him further into the good-books of the alt-right, and further away from the communities that prop him up.
