Hey there, and welcome to the Scene to Seen Podcast!
I am Valerie Complex Associate editor and movie author at Deadline. On today’s episode, we’re speaking with documentarian Nancy Katesdirector of PBS documentary Bro Outsider: The Life Of Bayard Rustinabout the civil liberties activist and the designer of the March on Washington in 1963.
The documentary narrates his 60-year profession as an activist, organizer and “nuisance.” Bayard Rustin developed a number of the techniques that moved the American civil liberties motion. His enthusiastic belief in Gandhi’s approach of nonviolence drew Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to him in the 1940’s and 50’s; his practice of those beliefs drew the attention of the FBI and cops. In 1963, Rustin brought his special abilities to the crowning magnificence of his civil liberties profession: his work arranging the March on Washington, the most significant demonstration America had actually ever seen.
In addition to The Life of Bayard Rustinshe likewise produced and directed the HBO documentary Regarding Susan Sontag, which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, where it got a Special Jury Mention, and in 2014, she was called to the OUT 100, the publication’s yearly list of interesting LGBTQ Americans. It has actually considering that evaluated at over 130 movie celebrations in 35 nations, and got a number of honors, consisting of a FOCAL International Award. Ms. Magazine called the movie among 2014’s leading 10 feminist movies, while critics called it “engaging” and “observant.” Kates likewise produced and directed Brother Outsider: the Life of Bayard Rustin. The movie premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and on the PBS series POVwinning more than 25 awards worldwide.
Kates has actually held residencies at MacDowell, heaven Mountain Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and somewhere else, along with invitation-only screenwriting workshops at the Athena Film Festival, which granted her an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Stowe Story Labs, and the Cine Qua Non retreat. She just recently began deal with a movie about the late LGBTQ activist and leader Urvashi Vaid.
On today’s episode, I talk with Kates about the journey it required to get this documentary made, and why with the release of Netflix own function about the life of Bayard Rustin, now is the ideal time for audiences who wish to discover more to see Sibling Outsider
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