How Time’s Oscar-Nominated Director Built the Trust That Made Her Film Possible
Vanity Fair, April 2, 2021: How Time’s Oscar-Nominated Director Built the Trust That Made Her Film Possible
“On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, Bradley—who, should she win, would be the first Black female director to ever win an Oscar—talks about the trust she built with Fox to make the film, and the power of her personal story to drive actual change in the American prison system. ‘I think that we’re at a place right now where people are finally starting to bring the conversation around incarceration into public view, into a mainstream conversation,’ Bradley says on the podcast. ‘But it’s still very much rooted in a place of politics, a place of history, a place of statistics. And we don’t have an equal balance of that up against the human experience, up against the effects of those facts. There’s so many stories that can be told from this perspective…. I think seeing something is also believing it.’”
Additional reading:
The New York Times, March 11, 2021: Garrett Bradley Reminds Us That Black Joy Always Existed
MoMA Magazine, March 11, 2021: How Can Imagination Empower People?
Culture Type, March 7, 2021: New Orleans-Based Artist and Filmmaker Garrett Bradley is Now Exclusively Represented by Lisson Gallery
Artnet, January 13, 2021: ‘Most Black Film Isn’t Allowed to Be Ambiguous’: How Garrett Bradley’s Quiet Documentaries Found a Rapt Audience in the Art World
