Actress Regina King is the first African American woman to direct a movie, 'One Night in Miami,' included at the Venice Film Festival.
In February 1964, Clay emerges victorious from the Miami Beach Convention Center as the world heavyweight boxing champion. Due to Jim Crow-era segregation laws, the boxer can’t stay on the island, but instead spends the night celebrating with his friends at the Hampton House Motel in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood.The cast and crew began filming in January, and when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, they considered pressing pause.
“Then George Floyd and Breonna [Taylor] happened and just all the other people who have been killed and the calling the cops on Black people, and we decided we had to get this done right now,” King said in August. “Because we’re in a space where white people are saying, ‘Yeah, I would hear Black people cry out, but I would neverHere's what I said to the Guardian about Regina King being the first African American woman director to play at the Venice Film Festival.
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