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Where are the white heroes?
“Producers said ‘It’s a nice project, a great project… where are the white heroes?’” he told AFP during a stay in Paris this month for a seminar on film.
“I couldn’t get the money here, I couldn’t get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. You wouldn’t believe the number of producers based in Europe, and in the States, that I went to,” he said.
“The first question you get, is ‘Is it a black film?’ All of them agree, it’s not going to do good in Europe, it’s not going to do good in Japan.
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Fatemeh
This week on MMW, we dicussed the Toronto Star’s offensive mischaracterization of Sofia Baig, reviewed A Jihad for Love, looked at an Egyptian campaign against sexual harassment, and critiqued some pretty irritating coverage of Muslim women in the Olympics. And compiled a whopper of a link round-up.
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