{"id":10274,"date":"2019-11-04T13:19:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10274"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:24:17","slug":"queen-slim-bts-featurette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/04\/queen-slim-bts-featurette\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEEN &#038; SLIM BTS Featurette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/queen-and-slim-featurette-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from MOVIEWEB (opens in a new tab)\">from MOVIEWEB<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Queen &amp; Slim Featurette Goes Behind-the-Scenes of Modern Day Bonnie &amp; Clyde<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/contributors\/b-alan-orange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">B. ALAN ORANGE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen &amp; Slim - Create Change Featurette\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sa1cqIzeYac?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From two-time Grammy award winning director Melina Matsoukas, the visionary filmmaker behind this generation&#8217;s most powerful pop-culture experiences, including HBO&#8217;s Insecure, the Emmy award-winning &#8220;Thanksgiving&#8221; episode of Netflix&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Master of None<\/em>, and Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;Formation,&#8221; and from trailblazing, Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe (Netflix&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Master of None<\/em>), comes the unflinching new drama,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/movie\/queen-slim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Queen &amp; Slim<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining a legacy of films such\u00a0<em>Set It Off<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Thelma &amp; Louise<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Queen &amp; Slim<\/em>\u00a0is a powerful, consciousness-raising love story that confronts the staggering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/queen-and-slim-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">human toll of racism<\/a>\u00a0and the life-shattering price of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The feature-film directorial debut from Melina Matsoukas (executive producer\/director of HBO&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Insecure<\/em>) stars Academy Award nominee Daniel Kaluuya as &#8220;Slim&#8221; and rising star Jodie Turner-Smith (Syfy&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Nightflyers<\/em>), as &#8220;Queen.&#8221; Waithe wrote the screenplay from a story by herself and bestselling author James Frey (A Million Little Pieces, Katerina).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film is produced by Frey, Waithe, Matsoukas, Michelle Knudsen, Andrew Coles, Brad Weston and Pamela Abdy. The executive producers are Pamela Hirsch, Kaluuya, Aaron L. Gilbert and Jason Cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This drama is already being praised as an awards season contender with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/tag\/oscars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Oscars<\/a>\u00a0in its sights, with the full ensemble including Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Chlo\u00eb Sevigny, Flea, John Sturgill Simpson, Indya Moore. Melina Matsoukas directs from screenplay by Lena Waithe with a story by: James Frey and Lena Waithe. Producers include James Frey, Lena Waithe, Melina Matsoukas, Michelle Knudsen, Andrew Coles, Brad Weston, Pamela Abdy. Executive Producers include Pamela Hirsch, Daniel Kaluuya, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/queen-and-slim-featurette-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to read full article at MOVIEWEB (opens in a new tab)\">click to read full article at MOVIEWEB<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MOVIEWEB Queen &amp; Slim Featurette Goes Behind-the-Scenes of Modern Day Bonnie &amp; Clyde by B. ALAN ORANGE From two-time Grammy award winning director Melina Matsoukas, the visionary filmmaker behind this generation&#8217;s most powerful pop-culture experiences, including HBO&#8217;s Insecure, the Emmy award-winning &#8220;Thanksgiving&#8221; episode of Netflix&#8217;s\u00a0Master of None, and Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;Formation,&#8221; and from trailblazing, Emmy-winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}