Radha Blank keeps her Sundance directing award on the mantel in her New York City home. “It’s still a little surreal to me,” she tells Variety of receiving the prize from the indie nonprofit where …
Radha Blank keeps her Sundance directing award on the mantel in her New York City home. “It’s still a little surreal to me,” she tells.” “From what I understand, me and Ava [DuVernay] are the only Black women to [win].” Even more surreal has been promoting her directorial debut during a pandemic.
You say filmmaking is your activism. How have the demonstrations against racial injustice affected your work? I can’t stop thinking about Breonna Taylor, and how the only thing that might separate us is a couple of years and the fact that I have a film. I want to be in a place of gratitude, but try to use my voice and my platform to keep her alive and to speak to the reality [that] there’s an opportunity for me to make an independent film, have the support of Lena Waithe and get acquired by Netflix, but in the same country, we have Breonna Taylors and Sandra Blands.
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