#Cannes dispatch! So happy I got to speak to Payal Kapadia and Sandhya Suri for this piece! Suri's film SANTOSH premiered on Monday in Un Certain Regard, and Kapadia's ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT is opening tonight, in Competition! Excited I get to attend!!
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While the media ignores them, students at community colleges ARE protesting genocide too.
They have far fewer material resources to leverage but are just as important. I’ll flag them in this 🧵 as I learn about their efforts.
#GazaSolidarityEncampment#CeasfireNOW
According to information obtained Friday, university spokesperson Ben Johnson said once the troopers began using force on the students around 10 p.m., the state troopers on the roof switched to long-range firearms as part of their protocol.
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The fact that every year the same annual report tells the same people (who claim to care so much about money!) where to find an extra 30 BILLION DOLLARS and nothing changes, tells you everything you need to know about the people running Hollywood studios.
As public support swings to student protesters getting brutalized and arrested (support goes up when public sees state suppression), the ‘outside agitators’ narrative will get deployed across the country as it was at Columbia. The story will be ‘it’s not these college kids…’
Sad to hear the news of Neel Nanda’s passing. Neel welcomed me into the comedy community and helped me meet a lot of comedians when I was working on a doc about South Asian comics. There weren’t many at the time, but he knew them all. He was a natural performer and generous guy.