The Toronto International Film Festival is highlighting a score of films reimagining Black history.
Viola Davis appears in The Woman King. It's only one of a score of films to premiere at TIFF that reimagine the role of Black people in world history.The Oscar winner took on the role of Nanisca, a general of the true-to-life all-women Agojie warriors, while also producing the film alongside her husband. But as it followed a little-known story in an African kingdom — fronted by a cast of nearly all-Black actors — Davis says it was nearly impossible to get a studio to buy in.
"You can be a little bit afraid of something that's never been done. But sometimes things that have never been done, it doesn't mean that it's not gonna land." "It's literally Canada's sport, and we don't know that Black people had all these contributions," Aliu told CBC on his red carpet. "I just hope this empowers people to look beyond this and lift up the hood and say, 'Hey, what other contributions have people of colour had to our society,' and they're going to quickly find out that we've been integral to where we are today.
"When you have a Black writer, you have a Black director, you have people saying, 'No … we're going to highlight the Black people who contributed in this way. And we're going to show you things in a way that you haven't seen before,'" she said. "We might revisit stories, but then we say, 'Wait a minute, we're going to tell it our way and re-centring Black people as they should be centred in these stories.
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