{"id":10278,"date":"2019-11-06T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10278"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:32:42","slug":"melina-and-lena-on-queen-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/06\/melina-and-lena-on-queen-slim\/","title":{"rendered":"Melina and Lena On QUEEN & SLIM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from AllHipHop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Queen & Slim’ Creators Melina Matsoukas & Lena Waithe Talk Making Art That Creates Change<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
\"\"\/
“We’ll give you an authentic view of what it means to be Black in America today.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

by Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(AllHipHop News)<\/strong> Melina Matsoukas and Lena Waithe are two of the producers behind the forthcoming motion picture Queen & Slim<\/em>. Matsoukas also made her feature-film directorial debut, and Waithe wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the movie, Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) and Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) are on the run after a police officer is killed in self-defense during a traffic stop. As two Black fugitives, the retail worker and the lawyer unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief, and pain for people across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Filmmaking is a war, and those are my war wounds up on that screen. I feel like you have to fight for your vision,” expresses Matsoukas. “That’s my favorite kind of art to create, that speaks to people and also creates change.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matsoukas is a two-time Grammy winner for directing Rihanna’s “We Found Love” and Beyonc\u00e9’s “Formation” music videos. Lena Waithe won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (Netflix’s\u00a0Master of None<\/em>), and she is the creator of the Showtime program\u00a0The Chi<\/em>. Best-selling author James Frey and Waithe developed the story for\u00a0Queen\u00a0&\u00a0Slim.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You’re trying to find it through the visuals, I’m trying to find it through the words, and the actors are trying to find it in their performances,” says Waithe while speaking with\u00a0Matsoukas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chicago native continued, “All these Black artists are trying to find truth in something or some form of honesty. Whoever’s watching it, whether you like it or not, it’s going to make you feel something.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at AllHipHop<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from AllHipHop ‘Queen & Slim’ Creators Melina Matsoukas & Lena Waithe Talk Making Art That Creates Change by Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY) (AllHipHop News) Melina Matsoukas and Lena Waithe are two of the producers behind the forthcoming motion picture Queen & Slim. Matsoukas also made her feature-film directorial debut, and Waithe wrote the screenplay. In the movie, Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) and Queen […]<\/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":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278","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=10278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}