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"The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 period drama film about Nat Turner, the African-American slave who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831. The film is written, produced, and directed by Nate Parker, who also stars as Nat Turner. Parker wrote the screenplay and petitioned financiers to invest in the film. It ultimately had a $10 million production budget and started filming in May 2015 in the U.S. state of Georgia. Along with Parker, the film features Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller, and Gabrielle Union all in supporting roles. The location used was Savannah, Georgia. The film premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2016. Fox Searchlight Pictures bought worldwide rights to the film in a $17.5 million deal, the largest deal at the film festival to date. At the end of the festival, it won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition."

http://www.people.com/article/birth-nation-nate-parker-trailer-debut

4/18/2016 5:29:16 PM

Looks really good.

I must admit though, I kept expecting to see Django come out and start shooting.

4/18/2016 9:15:24 PM

unfortunate name ?

4/19/2016 1:00:27 AM

it's almost as if it's intentional

4/19/2016 1:05:01 AM

almost

4/19/2016 1:06:32 AM

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"The 2016 film uses the same title as "the title of D.W. Griffith's 1915 KKK propaganda film in a very purposeful way", said The Hollywood Reporter.[4] Nate Parker said his film had the same title "ironically, but very much by design".[5] He told the magazine Filmmaker, "Griffith's film relied heavily on racist propaganda to evoke fear and desperation as a tool to solidify white supremacy as the lifeblood of American sustenance. Not only did this film motivate the massive resurgence of the terror group the Ku Klux Klan and the carnage exacted against people of African descent, it served as the foundation of the film industry we know today. I've reclaimed this title and re-purposed it as a tool to challenge racism and white supremacy in America, to inspire a riotous disposition toward any and all injustice in this country (and abroad) and to promote the kind of honest confrontation that will galvanize our society toward healing and sustained systemic change."[6]"

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"I must admit though, I kept expecting to see Django come out and start shooting."

Buckle up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner

4/19/2016 9:24:45 AM

NAT TURNS WITH BURNERS, JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE

4/19/2016 9:27:27 AM

this is pretty wild: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4196450/ratings?ref_=tt_ov_rt

4/19/2016 9:48:05 AM

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" to inspire a riotous disposition"

im sure that will end well.

4/19/2016 10:28:29 AM

Pass.

Ran out of white guilt four or five years ago.

4/19/2016 10:45:07 AM

White guilt, or American history?

4/19/2016 11:23:10 AM

Great another remake that won't live up to the original

4/19/2016 4:02:08 PM

Why ain't there no white people? Racist.

4/19/2016 10:32:55 PM