Director Roger Ross Williams talks about his career and his current projects, The Supermodels, Cassandro, and Stamped From the Beginning.
While Williams' work this year may seem to span a wide range of topics, from fashion to lucha libre, he says that there's a common thread that runs through his entire filmography.
What also keeps me going is that we have to correct all this injustice not only in the larger world, but in our in our documentary community. It's why I made. I can't escape from the realities of being a Black man in America, so I'm going to talk about those realities. I am constantly exploring the realities of my existence as a gay man and a Black man and if I don't explore them, then who is?is your first narrative feature.
What was your relationship to these women? Did they mean anything to you at the height of their fame? The series gives the supermodels the chance to tell their stories on their terms. When you think about Naomi, for instance, she was reduced to just the I didn't have the resources to option the book myself, so I called my good friends at Netflix and we said, 'Let's do this together.' I wanted to do it as a tight, 90-minute film because I wanted people to go into the theater or or sit down and watch it at home and be transformed. I wanted it to be accessible, to show how it relates to their lives today. And I want it to feel pop cultural because pop culture is how America disseminates racist ideas.
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