{"id":19094,"date":"2021-06-03T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=19094"},"modified":"2021-06-17T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:53:12","slug":"blindspotting-2021-tribecaff-preview-by-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/blindspotting-2021-tribecaff-preview-by-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"<small><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">2021 Tribeca Film Festival Preview<\/span><\/strong><\/small><br>BLINDSPOTTING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Before BLINDSPOTTING TV Series <\/strong><strong>(2021) <\/strong><strong>premiering at 2021 Tribeca Film Fest, there was &#8230; BLINDSPOTTING (2018), the movie.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-9-HBqVbtTo\" width=\"1000\" height=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Director: Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writers: Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Stars: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, <span class=\"aCOpRe\">Jasmine Cephas Jones.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2018\/08\/blindspotting-and-the-gentrification-of-language.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SLATE Review (2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caveat Lector: This is not a review. It&#8217;s a preview!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>BLINDSPOTTING (2018)<\/b><\/i> was written and produced and starring <a title=\"Daveed Diggs\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daveed_Diggs\">Daveed Diggs<\/a> and <a title=\"Rafael Casal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rafael_Casal\">Rafael Casal<\/a>. It&#8217;s a comedy drama, that means you could be laughing one moment and cringing the next. I luv these kind of genre with their overlaps of the dimensions of the human condition. This one deals with race and racism.\u00a0 <a title=\"Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlos_L%C3%B3pez_Estrada\">Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada<\/a> directs while <a title=\"Janina Gavankar\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Janina_Gavankar\">Janina Gavankar<\/a>, <a title=\"Jasmine Cephas Jones\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jasmine_Cephas_Jones\">Jasmine Cephas Jones<\/a>, <a title=\"Ethan Embry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethan_Embry\">Ethan Embry<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Tisha Campbell-Martin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tisha_Campbell-Martin\">Tisha Campbell-Martin<\/a>, <a title=\"Utkarsh Ambudkar\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Utkarsh_Ambudkar\">Utkarsh Ambudkar<\/a>, and <a title=\"Wayne Knight\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wayne_Knight\">Wayne Knight<\/a> also star. The story line: A parolee (Black)with three days left on his sentence witnesses a police shooting that threatens to ruin a lifelong friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Casal and Diggs, childhood friends in real-life, wrote the screenplay in the mid-2000s, initially about the Oakland, CA, their home town that they felt was serially misrepresented in film. Sort of like the Bronx. BLINDSPOTTING (2018) premiered January 18, 2018 at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. It got recognition at the 34th Independent Spirit Awards where Diggs was nominated<em> for\u00a0 Best Male Lead and L\u00f3pez Estrada for a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing \u2013 First-Time Feature Film. This <strong>WORD<\/strong><\/em> preview was written using Wikipedia and other sources.<i><b> <\/b><\/i><i><b> <\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fCtdIC666Ec\" width=\"1000\" height=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff?????<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nPremiering at TFF 2021. <span class=\"aCOpRe\">With Helen Hunt, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Atticus Woodward, Margo Hall. <\/span>BLINDSPOTTING (2021) picks up six months after the film and centers on Ashley, in pursuit of middle-class life in Oakland. Uh oh, Miles, her significant other of 12 years as well as father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, throwing her into perplexing, chaotic and comedic existential crisis: She must move in with Miles\u2019 mother and half-sister.<\/p>\n<p>BS (2021) has strong cast of Black and Latinx series regulars, including Emmy Award Winner Jasmine Cephas Jones (#freerayshawn, Hamilton), Benjamin Earl Turner (recording artist), Atticus Woodward (\u201cShameless\u201d), Jaylen Barron (\u201cFree Reign\u201d), Candace Nicholas-Lippman (\u201cGood Trouble\u201d) and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt (\u201cMad About You,\u201d Twister). Rafael Casal (Bad Education, \u201cThe Good Lord Bird\u201d) reprises his role as \u201cMiles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Series co-created by the film\u2019s co-writers, Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs (Snowpiercer, The Good Lord Bird, Soul), also as executive producers with Jess Wu Calder (One Night in Miami, Little Monsters, Blindspotting) and Keith Calder (One Night in Miami, Little Monsters, Blindspotting), their co-producers on the film. The series fosters inclusiveness behind the camera too as the writer\u2019s room and directors are predominantly people of color, female and from The Bay, allowing for authenticity in the way the characters and stories are represented. So says Starz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribecafilm.com\/films\/blindspotting-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for an Tribeca Film Fest BLINDSPOTTING (2021) link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Gregg W. Morris can be reached at gregghc@comcas.net, profgreggwmorris@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLINDSPOTTING (2021) centers on Ashley, who is trying to come up to speed on a middle-class life in Oakland until Miles, her partner of 12 years and father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, requiring her to navigate a chaotic and comedic existential crisis when she is forced to move in with Miles\u2019 mother and half-sister \u2013 OMG! So, who is Ashley? Who is Miles. Read more to come up to speed!<br \/>By Gregg W. 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