Urban Freedom Magazine The Anniversary Issue FALL 2017 | Page 34

Urban Money Matters
AT&T IS ON THE LOOK
OUT FOR BLACK FILMMAKERS!
DON’T MISS OUT
By Mercedez McIntyre
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T&T is looking to collabo-
rate with Black Filmmakers
for 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
The Tribeca Film festival takes
place every Spring as a platform for up
and coming filmmaking teams. Since
beginning its roots in the aftermath of
9/11, Tribeca has grown to highlight an
extremely wide variety of genres and
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media. Alongside film, last year’s edition
brought to life current HULU originals
like “The Handmaid’s Tale”. 2018 will
spark a change that most noticed miss-
ing long ago; lack of African American
representation. Many have debated if
this is due to lack of support given to Af-
rican American filmmakers or the lack of
African American filmmakers altogether.
AT&T has stepped in as a way to draw
the line next year by giving minorities
the additional support to make it to the
festival and beyond the event itself. In
order to see Black representation, this
also calls on the duty of our communi-
ty to step forward in pursuit of bringing
dreams to fruition.