The ‘Mudbound’ director gave a fiery acceptance speech as she declared her Netflix film to be undeniably true cinema.
Saturday night, the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards gave the Robert Altman Award toMudbound. It’s an honor shared by the cast, casting directors, and director and is meant to recognize films with outstanding ensemble casts. In accepting the award, director and co-writer Dee Rees had something to say about craft over all else. Her speech was an electrifying indictment of the gatekeeping around the awards community. In short, it was a reminder that craft, and appreciation of craft, should matter more than how the film was consumed.
The conversation about rules and mediums of consumption is not significant. In fact, not only does it not matter, it gets in the way of access for a lot of people. To that end, it was nice to see a diverse group of nominees and winners at the Indie Spirit Awards this year. Rees addressed the issue directly in her speech:
“I know that as independent filmmakers, as the so-called rebels, as the outsiders creating without respect to means or access, I know that we of all makers are far, far beyond any identity tokenism or snobbery of form in both production and distribution.”
You can read the side-eye and shade being thrown at all the racist, sexist problems swirling around the film community’s attempt to honor itself. Rees’s point was that maybe if we all just talked about craft — wherever it might be found — a festival celebrating craft things could be a bit better.
And, why don’t we? The films we discuss are beautiful, artistic endeavors. Yet, even Rees’s peers are derailed into conversations about the appropriateness of certain mediums over others and what should qualify for consideration.
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