MeToo issues continue to make an impact on Sundance films
films that have been impacted by #MeToo-related issues and tackle harassment head on , along with veteran filmmakers Miranda July and Anne Carey, whose work has been shaped by the movement.
But did Harpo or Winfrey’s concern over the African-American community’s response to the film prompt them to give the new notes? “Oprah felt that in the 90’s, the culture in the music business needed to be expanded upon,” a source close to Winfrey responded. “She felt that there was greater contextual information that was needed to be put into the film.”
“Oprah’s only desire was to get the women’s stories right,” a source close to her continued. “As a survivor herself, she knows all too well what these women have gone through. The decision to withdraw from the film was solely based on creative differences. Oprah did not want to feel that she, or the filmmakers, should be pressured by the timing of Sundance. The film already had distribution through Apple and did not need to go to the film festival. Ms.
The U.S. Dramatic Competition dark comedy “Zola” has also been affected by the #MeToo movement. In February 2016, James Franco was announced as director and a producer of this wild tale of a stripper’s road trip, which went viral as a 2015 Twitter thread. But Franco left the project in early 2017 — about a year before sexual-harassment accusations against him began surfacing on Twitter in January 2018, according to Janicza Bravo , who came aboard as director and co-writer in May 2017.
Sundance fest director John Cooper and programming director Kim Yutani cite “Zola,” Channing Godfrey Peoples’ beauty pageant chronicle “Miss Juneteenth,” Eliza Hittman’s teen pregnancy drama “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” and Eugene Ashe’s romance “Sylvie’s Love” as some of the U.S. Dramatic Competition films addressing #MeToo-related issues.
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