"Whatever the hell you need to do" is how to sustain a career as a director, according to Barry Jenkins.
"I worked at Banana Republic for three and a half years while I had a deal at Focus Features and an agent at CAA," the Oscar-winning 'Moonlight' director and co-writer told fellow director Anu Valia ('We Strangers').
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"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
Tomorrow will be five years since the Parkland shooting where my daughter Jaime was killed. She should be in college now. I can't believe this news happening tonight. Sending love to all. America, WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
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I’m thrilled to announce my next animated short film DRAFT PAPER, coming in 2024!
I will be taking on the roles of director and animator, and the film is written & codirected by Nathan Moon, and produced by @MrAdrianNuno and @AndrewNuno 🖤 stay tuned!
In a world where awesome shows get canceled and then often find a second life on another platform, I have to believe that there’s someone out there smart enough to pick up Work in Progress for a third season, especially if we get this cool hashtag trending: #SaveWorkInProgress ❤️
@alainademop Thank you for sharing this story. As sad as his death is, reading story after story of the generous person he was and the impact he will continue to have on people has been so comforting.
We’d like to introduce you to one of the judges of our Full STEM Ahead Filmmaker’s Initiative — @AndrewNuno!
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