Dee Rees

Cross-Post: 20 Years of Black Lesbian Cinema Before Pariah

FUTURES | 'Pariah' Writer/Director Dee Rees

Writer/director Dee Rees came into this year's Sundance Film Festival as a relative unknown and emerged as a filmmaker to contend with.

Color, Light, and Depth: The Visual Aesthetic of "Pariah" (An Interview w/ Cinematographer Bradford Young)

Dee Rees’ Pariah opens today in select cities, and what promises to be a compelling narrative, also features one of the more evocative visual palettes in recent cinema.

Pariah - written and directed by Dee Rees

Most of this review was written after screening the film at the Toronto Film Festival.  It has been augmented.

Interview with Dee Rees - Writer and Director of Pariah

Pariah opens in limited release tomorrow.  I was able to catch it and the Toronto Film Festival.  Here is my conversation with writer/director Dee Rees.

In My Humble Opinion- The Best Female Directed Films of 2011

It goes without saying that women made all kinds of films this year.  But the reality is that most made indie films.  Only a couple made studio films.  And the numbers of women directing films is still abysmally low. 

Interview with Adepero Oduye star of Pariah

This is the week when Pariah starts to roll out and I can't say emphatically enough that when this film comes to your town, you must see it.

Pariah Writer/Director Dee Rees Talks to Lincoln Center's Richard Pena

Hollywood Reporter Acknowledges That The Industry is Sexist

The Hollywood Reporter in the wake of their complete dismissal of women in both its writer and director roundtables has done a 360 and put together a whole cover on the lack of women directors and other women in power in the business.  While the package is interesting (while not saying anyth...