One Night in Miami, Shaka King s
Judas and the Black Messiah and Lee Daniel s
The United States vs. Billie Holiday, each film serves as a time capsule capturing the events of the era from which it was inspired but are also as timely today as ever, speaking directly to a culture that still needs to experience these stories. And moreover, that the Black history within them is being told by Black directors. When you re making a movie like this film or
One Night in Miami or
Da 5 Bloods or
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, I think that all of those writers and directors, they re coming from the place of, I m making this for my mom to watch or my friends to watch, Shaka King tells ET. They re seeing the people who look like them first when they see the audience, and that changes everything.