Racism and women’s rights are two timely, urgent issues that numerous directors with films at Sundance tackle via fictional or documentary films. Mariama Diallo’s “Master” and Carey Williams’ “Emer…
Mariama Diallo’s “Master” and Carey Williams’ “Emergency” are two examples of narrative features heading to the fest that address the issue of race and racism in America. While Diallo’s “Master” portrays racism in an academic setting, Williams’ “Emergency” follows a group of Black and Latino college students who weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an emergency situation.
“At the end of 2017, ProPublica came out with their series on lost mothers — about maternal care and preventable deaths happening in the U.S.,” says Eiselt. “Then they came out with a follow-up series on the Black-white disparity in pregnancy-related mortality and that’s when I thought it was a real systemic
Phyllis Nagy’s “Call Jane” explores the Jane Collective in fiction form. Elizabeth Banks stars as a married woman who becomes pregnant unexpectedly and turns to the underground group of women led by Virginia for help.
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