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Headline : Hollywood can be toxic to Black women. This L.A. film festival is the ‘antidote’

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“The Woman King” thrilled audiences when it premiered last year. The spectacle starring Viola Davis demonstrated director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s mastery of character-driven storytelling and epic battle scenes alike. Many awards-season observers felt she should have scored an Oscar nomination.

Though Prince-Bythewood has cemented her status as one of the industry’s most reliable filmmakers, she has not forgotten the near-catastrophe she encountered at the beginning of her career when she was a UCLA film student running out of money and time.

Lacking the resources to complete her thesis film, about a comedian using humor to cope with her trauma-filled past, she reached out, desperate, to Sandra Evers-Manly, then the head of the Beverly Hills chapter of the NAACP and an advocate for aspiring Black filmmakers.

“I was B.R.O.K.E. and just cold-called Sandra,” said Prince-Bythewood. “She didn’t know me, and I just asked if she had any connections that could help me. That was all it took. Before I knew it, I got all my processing taken care of for free. That meant everything.”

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