In honor of Dear White People‘s return to Netflix for a fourth and final — and musical! — season, this week’s episode of Hollywood Remixed is dedicated to the Black college experience.
Logan Browning, who stars as documentary film student and campus radio host Samantha White (the role played by Tessa Thompson in the original 2014 film), joins the podcast to talk about her own college days (she spent a year at Vanderbilt) and what playing the campus firebrand has taught her. “The thing that I would probably take from the show is compassionate empathy,” Browning tells ...
Logan Browning, who stars as documentary film student and campus radio host Samantha White (the role played by Tessa Thompson in the original 2014 film), joins the podcast to talk about her own college days (she spent a year at Vanderbilt) and what playing the campus firebrand has taught her. “The thing that I would probably take from the show is compassionate empathy,” Browning tells ...
- 9/27/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In honor of Dear White People‘s return to Netflix for a fourth and final — and musical! — season, this week’s episode of Hollywood Remixed is dedicated to the Black college experience.
Logan Browning, who stars as documentary film student and campus radio host Samantha White (the role played by Tessa Thompson in the original 2014 film), joins the podcast to talk about her own college days (she spent a year at Vanderbilt) and what playing the campus firebrand has taught her. “The thing that I would probably take from the show is compassionate empathy,” Browning tells ...
Logan Browning, who stars as documentary film student and campus radio host Samantha White (the role played by Tessa Thompson in the original 2014 film), joins the podcast to talk about her own college days (she spent a year at Vanderbilt) and what playing the campus firebrand has taught her. “The thing that I would probably take from the show is compassionate empathy,” Browning tells ...
- 9/27/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From the moment Logan Browning entered the entertainment industry, it was clear that she planned to stick around. Right off the bat, she earned a recurring role in the TV series Summerland, and things continued to move forward from there. She got another major opportunity in 2009 when she was cast as Brianna in Meet the Browns. While she quickly became known for a variety of roles, she is now best-known for playing Samantha White in the Netflix series Dear White People. Now that the show is getting ready for its fourth and final season, Logan’s fans are looking forward
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- 5/8/2021
- by Camille Moore
- TVovermind.com
Can you play an activist on television and not be one in real life? Logan Browning doesn't think so. "You can't play an activist on TV and go home and be quiet and feel good about it. It kind of gets in your blood," the actress told E! News while promoting her "Bites & Beats" event with CÎROC at Afropunk. Just like her character Samantha White on Dear White People, Logan isn't afraid to speak her mind and stand up for what she thinks is right. She has been an outspoken advocate of Black lives, women and voter rights before she was ever cast as the fiery coed. "I've always been someone who has cared about Black voices, women's voices, LGBTQ voices and...
- 10/24/2020
- E! Online
Transatlantic production group Red Arrow Studios has agreed a multi-year contract extension with Hilary Bevan Jones, founder and managing director of Endor Productions, the U.K.-based scripted producer of “Vienna Blood” and “Deep State.”
Bevan Jones’s Endor Productions became part of German broadcast giant ProSiebenSat.1’s production subsidiary Red Arrow Studios in 2012.
The deal follows a busy spell for Endor. Its acclaimed recent Orf and Zdf series “Vienna Blood” was acquired by the BBC and PBS, while it has made two seasons of Matthew Parkhill’s “Deep State” for Fox Networks Group. Coming up is new BBC One drama “But When We Dance,” written by Paul Mayhew-Archer.
Last month, ProSiebenSat.1 canceled a proposed sale of Red Arrow Studios — which comprises 20 production companies including Kinetic Content, the producer behind Netflix hit “Love is Bliind” — amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Over her career, Bevan Jones has worked on dramas including: “Roald Dahl...
Bevan Jones’s Endor Productions became part of German broadcast giant ProSiebenSat.1’s production subsidiary Red Arrow Studios in 2012.
The deal follows a busy spell for Endor. Its acclaimed recent Orf and Zdf series “Vienna Blood” was acquired by the BBC and PBS, while it has made two seasons of Matthew Parkhill’s “Deep State” for Fox Networks Group. Coming up is new BBC One drama “But When We Dance,” written by Paul Mayhew-Archer.
Last month, ProSiebenSat.1 canceled a proposed sale of Red Arrow Studios — which comprises 20 production companies including Kinetic Content, the producer behind Netflix hit “Love is Bliind” — amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Over her career, Bevan Jones has worked on dramas including: “Roald Dahl...
- 4/22/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Graduation day is nigh for Winchester’s upperclassmen: Netflix has renewed Dear White People for a fourth and final season.
The woke college comedy’s farewell season will consist of 10 episodes, with series creator/Ep Justin Simien and fellow Ep Yvette Lee Bowser returning as co-showrunners. Netflix announced the news via the above cast video.
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“I’m so grateful my little indie-that-could has made...
The woke college comedy’s farewell season will consist of 10 episodes, with series creator/Ep Justin Simien and fellow Ep Yvette Lee Bowser returning as co-showrunners. Netflix announced the news via the above cast video.
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- 10/2/2019
- TVLine.com
Class will be back in session at Winchester College later this summer, when “Dear White People” returns for its third season on Friday, August 2. In addition to revealing Season 3’s trailer, the streaming giant also announced a slew of actors who will guest star on this season, including Yvette Nicole Brown, Blair Underwood, Laverne Cox, Flavor Flav, and the show’s own creator Justin Simien.
The last time we checked in with Winchester’s finest, they had just gotten themselves wrapped up in a new mystery. After spending the entire second season searching for a secret society on campus called The Order of X, Samantha White (Logan Browning) and Lionel (DeRon Horton) followed some clues that brought them face to face with the show’s narrator, Giancarlo Esposito. However, it remains to be seen if Esposito is indeed part of a secret society, or if said secret society even exists.
The last time we checked in with Winchester’s finest, they had just gotten themselves wrapped up in a new mystery. After spending the entire second season searching for a secret society on campus called The Order of X, Samantha White (Logan Browning) and Lionel (DeRon Horton) followed some clues that brought them face to face with the show’s narrator, Giancarlo Esposito. However, it remains to be seen if Esposito is indeed part of a secret society, or if said secret society even exists.
- 7/19/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Netflix released the trailer for Season 3 of “Dear White People” on Friday, and it includes a powerful message from The Order of X: “Kill the narrator.”
“I see you’ve been watching closely. The order is more powerful than you’ll ever know. You must kill the narrator,” the voice of the Narrator, Giancarlo Esposito, say in the trailer. But his message isn’t as sinister as it sounds.
“The only voice you need in your head is your own,” he tells Samantha White (Logan Browning).
“Kill the narrator,” she says back to him, in awed-understanding. It’s a metaphor!
Also Read: 'Dear White People' Season 3 Guest Stars Include Yvette Nicole Brown, Laverne Cox and Flavor Flav (Video)
“Dear White People,” which is based on the 2014 film of the same name, takes place at a predominantly white Ivy League college, where a group of black students must navigate...
“I see you’ve been watching closely. The order is more powerful than you’ll ever know. You must kill the narrator,” the voice of the Narrator, Giancarlo Esposito, say in the trailer. But his message isn’t as sinister as it sounds.
“The only voice you need in your head is your own,” he tells Samantha White (Logan Browning).
“Kill the narrator,” she says back to him, in awed-understanding. It’s a metaphor!
Also Read: 'Dear White People' Season 3 Guest Stars Include Yvette Nicole Brown, Laverne Cox and Flavor Flav (Video)
“Dear White People,” which is based on the 2014 film of the same name, takes place at a predominantly white Ivy League college, where a group of black students must navigate...
- 7/19/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Netflix is firming up some premiere dates for new and returning series.
We have news on Elite, Dear White People, and Katee Sackhoff's big TV return.
Dear White People will be back in session on Friday, August 2.
Little details have been revealed about the third season, but we're sure it will be just as witty as ever.
Related: Dear White People Renewed at Netflix
Dear White People, based on the 2014 movie of the same name follows students at the socially conscious Winchester College.
It focuses on radio host, Samantha White (Logan Browning), and her "Dear White People" segments.
The cast also includes Brandon P. Bell, DeRon Horton, and Antoinette Robinson.
Elsewhere, the streamer will be taking viewers back into the wonderful, but corrupt world of Elite in September.
Netflix confirmed the news thanks to a social media post featuring Miguel Bernardeau and Danna Paola as their characters Guzman and Lucrecia.
We have news on Elite, Dear White People, and Katee Sackhoff's big TV return.
Dear White People will be back in session on Friday, August 2.
Little details have been revealed about the third season, but we're sure it will be just as witty as ever.
Related: Dear White People Renewed at Netflix
Dear White People, based on the 2014 movie of the same name follows students at the socially conscious Winchester College.
It focuses on radio host, Samantha White (Logan Browning), and her "Dear White People" segments.
The cast also includes Brandon P. Bell, DeRon Horton, and Antoinette Robinson.
Elsewhere, the streamer will be taking viewers back into the wonderful, but corrupt world of Elite in September.
Netflix confirmed the news thanks to a social media post featuring Miguel Bernardeau and Danna Paola as their characters Guzman and Lucrecia.
- 6/19/2019
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Dear White People will go back to school on Friday, Aug. 2, when Netflix releases Season 3 (sorry, Volume 3) of the satirical series.
In conjunction with the Juneteenth announcement, the streamer released a video (above) in which the cast engages in a “sweet vs. salty” grits debate. And that frankly made me lamenting how sad this morning’s whole wheat bagel breakfast was.
Having picked up where the acclaimed 2014 film by the same name left off, Dear White People chronicles the socially conscious campus activities at the fictional Winchester College, led by radio host Samantha White (Logan Browning) and her controversial “Dear White People” rants.
In conjunction with the Juneteenth announcement, the streamer released a video (above) in which the cast engages in a “sweet vs. salty” grits debate. And that frankly made me lamenting how sad this morning’s whole wheat bagel breakfast was.
Having picked up where the acclaimed 2014 film by the same name left off, Dear White People chronicles the socially conscious campus activities at the fictional Winchester College, led by radio host Samantha White (Logan Browning) and her controversial “Dear White People” rants.
- 6/19/2019
- TVLine.com
Netflix has renewed “Dear White People” for a third season, releasing a video with Giancarlo Esposito in character as the narrator to make the announcement (see below). Set on a fictional Ivy League campus, the satirical dramedy follows a group of students of color navigating life at a predominantly white university in a supposedly “post-racial” society. Based on the eponymous 2014 film starring Tessa Thompson, the show is a re-imagining of the movie, with Logan Browning in the role of radical radio host Samantha White.
Prior to the official renewal, IndieWire spoke to creator, executive producer, director, writer, and co-showrunner Justin Simien about his plans for Season 3, and the challenges of selling and marketing a comedy about racial politics.
“I feel good about it and feel like the audience…there’s just a fervor that’s new. It’s bigger than it was last year. When I started making ‘Dear White People’ the movie,...
Prior to the official renewal, IndieWire spoke to creator, executive producer, director, writer, and co-showrunner Justin Simien about his plans for Season 3, and the challenges of selling and marketing a comedy about racial politics.
“I feel good about it and feel like the audience…there’s just a fervor that’s new. It’s bigger than it was last year. When I started making ‘Dear White People’ the movie,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The students of Winchester College are heading into their junior year: Netflix has renewed college comedy Dear White People for a 10-episode third season debuting in 2019, TVLine has learned.
Netflix celebrated the news with an announcement video from Giancarlo Esposito (who serves as the show’s narrator) and “the Order of X”:
Debuting in April 2017, Dear White People (based on the Justin Simien film) chronicles the socially conscious campus activities at the fictional Winchester College, led by radio host Samantha White (Logan Browning) and her controversial “Dear White People” rants. The supporting cast includes Brandon P. Bell (Troy), DeRon Horton...
Netflix celebrated the news with an announcement video from Giancarlo Esposito (who serves as the show’s narrator) and “the Order of X”:
Debuting in April 2017, Dear White People (based on the Justin Simien film) chronicles the socially conscious campus activities at the fictional Winchester College, led by radio host Samantha White (Logan Browning) and her controversial “Dear White People” rants. The supporting cast includes Brandon P. Bell (Troy), DeRon Horton...
- 6/22/2018
- TVLine.com
Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 debut “Boys Don’t Cry,” the grim story of a trans man raped and murdered in Texas, scored Hillary Swank an Oscar and announced Peirce as a major filmmaking talent. It also established expectations she still resists, almost 20 years later.
“A lot of people think I’m Mr. Tragedy because of ‘Boys Don’t Cry,’” the 50-year-old director said in a phone interview from her home in Los Angeles. “But I have been wanting to move into comedy for a bit. Let’s be honest. A lot of comedy doesn’t that have much sophistication. It’s funny, but there’s a level of predictability and normativity.”
So she’s moving into comedy, but in her own way, most recently by directing Episode 4 from Season 2 of Netflix’s “Dear White People.” The riveting, unpredictable story of a young black woman wrestling with whether she should have an...
“A lot of people think I’m Mr. Tragedy because of ‘Boys Don’t Cry,’” the 50-year-old director said in a phone interview from her home in Los Angeles. “But I have been wanting to move into comedy for a bit. Let’s be honest. A lot of comedy doesn’t that have much sophistication. It’s funny, but there’s a level of predictability and normativity.”
So she’s moving into comedy, but in her own way, most recently by directing Episode 4 from Season 2 of Netflix’s “Dear White People.” The riveting, unpredictable story of a young black woman wrestling with whether she should have an...
- 6/21/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for “Dear White People” Season 2.]
In a season full of emotional highs and lows, perhaps the absolute peak of “Dear White People” Season 2 came in Episode 10, when Samantha White met… Samantha White.
Well, only on a meta level, but it was still surreal in the best way to see Sam (Logan Browning) confront right-wing talk show pundit Rikki Carter (Tessa Thompson) just before Rikki’s big speech at Winchester University. This is because Thompson had originated the role of Sam White in the film version of “Dear White People,” adding an extra layer of context that, creator Justin Simien told IndieWire, was quite deliberate.
“I always loved the idea of acknowledging that the cast changed in some way,” he said. “I like to tie up all my loose ends and so I wanted to do something meta.”
According to Simien, the idea for the character came before the idea to have Thompson play her.
In a season full of emotional highs and lows, perhaps the absolute peak of “Dear White People” Season 2 came in Episode 10, when Samantha White met… Samantha White.
Well, only on a meta level, but it was still surreal in the best way to see Sam (Logan Browning) confront right-wing talk show pundit Rikki Carter (Tessa Thompson) just before Rikki’s big speech at Winchester University. This is because Thompson had originated the role of Sam White in the film version of “Dear White People,” adding an extra layer of context that, creator Justin Simien told IndieWire, was quite deliberate.
“I always loved the idea of acknowledging that the cast changed in some way,” he said. “I like to tie up all my loose ends and so I wanted to do something meta.”
According to Simien, the idea for the character came before the idea to have Thompson play her.
- 5/6/2018
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Early in Justin Simien’s laser-focused and enriching second season of “Dear White People,” Samantha White (Logan Browning) explains to her friend Joelle (Ashley Blaine Featherson) why she’s been struggling to speak out as she has in the past.
“Something’s changed,” Sam says. “Logic, reason, discourse — it’s out the window now. […] This isn’t a conversation. I’ve got a wall of vitriol at my back, and in front of me, I’ve got a fucking boy who makes me feel so many things at once I can’t make sense of anything.”
In a simple statement, reiterated by more characters in different sentiments throughout the season, Sam has summed up her own personal struggles as well as the challenge facing the show itself: use truth to eradicate misunderstanding without skipping life’s simple pleasures along the way. It’s about balance — there’s a cause to be defended,...
“Something’s changed,” Sam says. “Logic, reason, discourse — it’s out the window now. […] This isn’t a conversation. I’ve got a wall of vitriol at my back, and in front of me, I’ve got a fucking boy who makes me feel so many things at once I can’t make sense of anything.”
In a simple statement, reiterated by more characters in different sentiments throughout the season, Sam has summed up her own personal struggles as well as the challenge facing the show itself: use truth to eradicate misunderstanding without skipping life’s simple pleasures along the way. It’s about balance — there’s a cause to be defended,...
- 5/4/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
In today’s roundup, YouTube Red ordered a pilot for a comedy series starring Danny Pudi, and Netflix released the trailer for the second season of “Dear White People.”
Dates
Netflix will launch a new documentary series in partnership with BuzzFeed titled “Follow This,” to premiere on July 9. In each 15-minute episode, BuzzFeed reporters invite viewers into their working lives as they explore stories on a variety of global and domestic topics. Participating BuzzFeed staffers include reporter Scaachi Koul, senior culture writer Bim Adewunmi, senior national correspondent John Stanton, reporter and podcast host Ahmed Ali Akbar, science reporter Azeen Ghorayshi, BuzzFeed India editor-in-chief Rega Jha, and senior tech writer Charlie Warzel.
“Golden State Killer Caught: People Magazine Investigates” will air Friday at 10 p.m. Et/Pt and Sunday at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on Investigation Discovery. The first installment of the investigative series’ sophomore season follows People editor-in-chief Jess Cagle...
Dates
Netflix will launch a new documentary series in partnership with BuzzFeed titled “Follow This,” to premiere on July 9. In each 15-minute episode, BuzzFeed reporters invite viewers into their working lives as they explore stories on a variety of global and domestic topics. Participating BuzzFeed staffers include reporter Scaachi Koul, senior culture writer Bim Adewunmi, senior national correspondent John Stanton, reporter and podcast host Ahmed Ali Akbar, science reporter Azeen Ghorayshi, BuzzFeed India editor-in-chief Rega Jha, and senior tech writer Charlie Warzel.
“Golden State Killer Caught: People Magazine Investigates” will air Friday at 10 p.m. Et/Pt and Sunday at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on Investigation Discovery. The first installment of the investigative series’ sophomore season follows People editor-in-chief Jess Cagle...
- 4/25/2018
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
You know what’s even more satisfying than your favorite movie cleaning up on Oscar night? The righteous indignation that comes from knowing that Academy members were too busy nominating Meryl Streep again to throw a bone to works of high art like “Under the Skin” or “In the Mood for Love.” One of the most important traditions during awards season is getting angry and/or surprised by which movies were snubbed, of which there are more than a few — for every “Shape of Water” with 13 nominations, there’s a “Zodiac” with zero.
And so it is that we’ve assembled this look at 25 great movies that went entirely unrecognized by AMPAS, some of which are unsurprising (they don’t often give much love to wrenching Korean dramas, after all) but unjust all the same. Have a look, and try to quell your outrage as you’re reminded that, seriously,...
And so it is that we’ve assembled this look at 25 great movies that went entirely unrecognized by AMPAS, some of which are unsurprising (they don’t often give much love to wrenching Korean dramas, after all) but unjust all the same. Have a look, and try to quell your outrage as you’re reminded that, seriously,...
- 2/16/2018
- by Michael Nordine, Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich, Jude Dry, William Earl, Zack Sharf, Jenna Marotta and Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
"Man, look at it out there,"Justin Simien says, gesturing to the window of the hotel suite he's currently holding court in. It's early February, and the city has just been hit by a blizzard that feels damn near Biblical; the streets below us, as well as the whole of Madison Square Park, are covered by an endless blanket of eye-blinding white. "It's like New York has been covered in Trump voters!"
The two stars of Simien's Netflix show Dear White People who are sitting to his left, Logan Browning and Brandon P. Bell,...
The two stars of Simien's Netflix show Dear White People who are sitting to his left, Logan Browning and Brandon P. Bell,...
- 4/28/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Dear White People, Justin Simien’s hit Sundance film about race relations on a predominantly white Ivy League-type campus, gets expanded into a 10-episode series for Netflix.
Making its debut on Friday, April 28, the TV adaptation tells the story of racial tension largely through the perspectives of Samantha White (Logan Browning), a biracial student who uses her radio show to dress down white students who appropriate black culture; Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), the dean’s son who is held up to a higher standard; Lionel Higgins (DeRon Horton), a freshman reporter coming to terms with his sexuality; and Coco Conners (Antoinette Robertson), a scholarship student who seeks a higher status quo.
The film, which first debuted at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, was a sharp-tongued take on what many thought of as a post-racial America following the election of President Barack Obama. Picking up where the events -- culminating with a blackface Halloween party -- of the...
Making its debut on Friday, April 28, the TV adaptation tells the story of racial tension largely through the perspectives of Samantha White (Logan Browning), a biracial student who uses her radio show to dress down white students who appropriate black culture; Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), the dean’s son who is held up to a higher standard; Lionel Higgins (DeRon Horton), a freshman reporter coming to terms with his sexuality; and Coco Conners (Antoinette Robertson), a scholarship student who seeks a higher status quo.
The film, which first debuted at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, was a sharp-tongued take on what many thought of as a post-racial America following the election of President Barack Obama. Picking up where the events -- culminating with a blackface Halloween party -- of the...
- 4/28/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Get ready to get woke. Dear White People has arrived on Netflix, and creator Justin Simien's 10-episode adaptation of his critically-acclaimed 2014 film of the same name has a mission: To spotlight through satire what it's really like to be the "other" in a particular environment. "The show is about a group of black kids at a mostly white college navigating identity and who they really are in this environment where they're not necessarily seen," he explained to E! News. "It really centers around this character Samantha White, who is kind of a shock jock and has this radio show called Dear White People. And all the main characters are divided about whether it's racist or whether...
- 4/28/2017
- E! Online
Dear White People never had a chance. When virtually every TV show and film these days is mired in some controversy or another, one has to expect it from a project as fuelled by provocation as a series adaptation of Justin Simien’s critically acclaimed 2014 film. The recent uproar over the announcement teaser for the new Netflix show certainly helped set the stage for a divisive series to come, even if those who found that footage offensive likely didn’t understand the context. Using the prestigious (and fictional) Winchester University to provide a microcosmic view of large-scale racial tension, Dear White People is a satire at heart, and its social commentary – far more balanced than the mere 30-second teaser indicates – works best when it stirs up a reaction. By that metric, the show may already be a success.
Created by Simien, Dear White People picks up almost immediately where the film ended,...
Created by Simien, Dear White People picks up almost immediately where the film ended,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Robert Yaniz Jr.
- We Got This Covered
“Dear White People” is an equal opportunity informer. The provocative title makes it clear that Justin Simien’s new Netflix series — adapted from his 2014 Sundance film of the same name — has a distinct black perspective, but the first trailer for the 10-episode first season makes it clear that no one person, class, or ethnicity will be able to ignore the cultural turmoil at Winchester University.
This voice will be heard, and what a voice it is.
Starring Logan Browning as talk radio host Samantha White, “Dear White People” chronicles racial unrest at a (fictional) Ivy League university. Dealing with social issues big and small, Simien’s series could have easily been (yet another) hour-long drama meant to educate via harsh truths. But the original series followed in the footsteps of the film that inspired it by utilizing a strong satiric voice, and the trailer below showcases just how sharply funny “Dear White People” can be.
This voice will be heard, and what a voice it is.
Starring Logan Browning as talk radio host Samantha White, “Dear White People” chronicles racial unrest at a (fictional) Ivy League university. Dealing with social issues big and small, Simien’s series could have easily been (yet another) hour-long drama meant to educate via harsh truths. But the original series followed in the footsteps of the film that inspired it by utilizing a strong satiric voice, and the trailer below showcases just how sharply funny “Dear White People” can be.
- 4/13/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Dear White People, the series, has a new trailer that wants you to know: it's not just for black people. The Netflix series picks up where the movie left off with Logan Browning taking over the role of Samantha White from Tessa Thompson for the 10-episode first season debuting Friday, April 28. "When you ask somebody who looks ethnically different, 'What are you,' the answer is usually, 'A person about to slap the s—t out of you," she says in the trailer below. Racial tensions between student groups are running high at the fiction Winchester University. Can everybody just get along? Justin Simien, the writer and director of the movie, created the comedy and writes the...
- 4/13/2017
- E! Online
Netflix’s new comedy Dear White People (arriving Friday, April 28) is like a promising college student who tails off midway through the semester: lots of potential at the beginning, followed by a disappointing lack of focus.
Like Justin Simien’s 2014 movie of the same name, the pilot (also written and directed by Simien) takes us to the fictional campus of Winchester University, a mostly white Ivy League school where students of different races only mingle in brochure photos. Media student Samantha White (Hit the Floor‘s Logan Browning) points out the casual racism she experiences every day on campus in...
Like Justin Simien’s 2014 movie of the same name, the pilot (also written and directed by Simien) takes us to the fictional campus of Winchester University, a mostly white Ivy League school where students of different races only mingle in brochure photos. Media student Samantha White (Hit the Floor‘s Logan Browning) points out the casual racism she experiences every day on campus in...
- 4/13/2017
- TVLine.com
In a day when so many movies transition to TV and lose their identity in the process, it’s refreshing to see “Dear White People” hew closely to the film that inspired it. The story has been carefully altered and expanded to allow for fresh developments, but rather than list all the ways Justin Simien’s new Netflix series differs from his award-winning indie film, let’s focus on their shared identity.
Identity is a prominent theme in the story of college kids struggling to discover who they are and what they stand for, and the series’ first two episodes feel deeply unifying. The premiere episode is a streamlined effort with an impressively strong voice; the next half-hour is equally affecting and vocal, an ideal split between entertaining and illuminating.
Given it’s written and directed by the same man who led the film from IndieWire Project of the Year to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival,...
Identity is a prominent theme in the story of college kids struggling to discover who they are and what they stand for, and the series’ first two episodes feel deeply unifying. The premiere episode is a streamlined effort with an impressively strong voice; the next half-hour is equally affecting and vocal, an ideal split between entertaining and illuminating.
Given it’s written and directed by the same man who led the film from IndieWire Project of the Year to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival,...
- 3/13/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Three years after making his auspicious debut with “Dear White People” — and ahead of the upcoming TV adaptation coming to Netflix — writer/director Justin Simien has answered the question he’s been getting asked since before his film even hit theaters: Why did he name it that? “Had I made a terrible mis-calculation?” he recalls wondering after receiving harsh questions at early screenings of his film and being subjected to overt racism online. “Had I doomed my film and career to obscurity because I dared to put the words ‘white’ and ‘people’ next to one another in my title?”
Read More: ‘Dear White People’ Director on Alt-Right Backlash to Netflix Show: ‘I Reject Any Notion of ‘Causing a Divide’’
Thankfully not — after winning a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance, Simien went on to receive strong reviews for “Dear White People,” and is writing the first 10 episodes of the Netflix version.
Read More: ‘Dear White People’ Director on Alt-Right Backlash to Netflix Show: ‘I Reject Any Notion of ‘Causing a Divide’’
Thankfully not — after winning a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance, Simien went on to receive strong reviews for “Dear White People,” and is writing the first 10 episodes of the Netflix version.
- 2/12/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Netflix unveiled the biting and already controversial first trailer for its series adaptation of Dear White People, which arrives April 28th.
The show expands on Justin Simien's 2014 movie of the same name, which chronicled the lives of several black students at a predominately white, Ivy-like university as racial tensions spike. In the new 30-second spot, protagonist Samantha White bluntly ticks off a list of acceptable Halloween costumes on her radio show: "Pirate, slutty nurse, any of our first 43 presidents. Top of the list of unacceptable costumes: Me," she says...
The show expands on Justin Simien's 2014 movie of the same name, which chronicled the lives of several black students at a predominately white, Ivy-like university as racial tensions spike. In the new 30-second spot, protagonist Samantha White bluntly ticks off a list of acceptable Halloween costumes on her radio show: "Pirate, slutty nurse, any of our first 43 presidents. Top of the list of unacceptable costumes: Me," she says...
- 2/9/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix has announced its new Dear White People TV show will premiere on Friday, April 28th. Watch a new teaser, after the jump. The half-hour comedy series is inspired by Justin Simien’s indie feature film. The 2014 movie centered on the racial tensions at a mostly white Ivy League college and starred Tessa Thompson, Tyler James Williams, Kyle Gallner, Teyonah Parris, and Brandon P. Bell.Bell will reprise his role in the film as Troy Fairbanks, the ambitious son of the dean of students. Logan Browning is Samantha White, a bi-racial film major, who hosts the Dear White People radio show. Antoinette Robertson, DeRon Horton, John Patrick Amedori, and Ashley Blaine Featherson also star in the Netflix series. Recurring are Brant Daugherty, Nia Jervier, Wyatt Nash, Jemar Michael, and Nia Long.Read More…...
- 2/8/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Justin Simien’s “Dear White People” series, based on his own film of the same name, will premiere on Netflix on Friday, April 28, the streaming platform announced Wednesday. Logan Browning takes over the lead role of Samantha White from Tessa Thompson, who starred in Simien’s 2014 film. Set amidst a diverse group of students of color as they navigate a predominantly white Ivy League college where racial tensions are often swept under the rug, the 10-episode, half-hour series is described as a send-up of “post-racial” America. Also Read: 'Dear White People' Adaptation Gets Series Order at Netflix In...
- 2/8/2017
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Netflix has finally cast two key members for its “Dear White People” TV adaptation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming service has picked Logan Browning (“Powers”) to replace Tessa Thompson in the leading role as Samantha White, a biracial film major in the midst of a political firestorm on her Ivy League campus due to her radio show “Dear White People.” Also, Brandon Bell will reprise his role as Troy Fairbanks, the son of the dean of students who is campaigning to become the school’s first black president. Both Sam and Brandon face particular hardships when their personal aspiration and political ideals clash with the campus culture and its approach to identity politics.
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The upcoming series is based on Justin Simien’s 2014 film of the same name, which examined the racial tensions...
Read More: ‘Dear White People’: Netflix Adapting Justin Simien’s Racial Satire Into TV Series
The upcoming series is based on Justin Simien’s 2014 film of the same name, which examined the racial tensions...
- 7/21/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
After a strong season 6 opener, which managed to both please critics and act as the series’ bigger premiere ever, Showtime has gone ahead and renewed Shameless for a 12-episode seventh season.
“Shameless has clearly resonated with audiences as evidenced by their steady growth on Sunday nights over the past 6 years,” said Showtime president of programming Gary Levine.
Given how well the series has been doing for Showtime over the years, news of a seventh season shouldn’t really come as too much of a surprise to fans. Most people can probably agree that there’s still a lot of story to tell in regards to the Gallagher family and the prospect of spending more time with these beloved characters is certainly something that excites us.
In fact, in her review earlier this week, our very own Samantha White concluded the following about the show:
With the premiere of its sixth season,...
“Shameless has clearly resonated with audiences as evidenced by their steady growth on Sunday nights over the past 6 years,” said Showtime president of programming Gary Levine.
Given how well the series has been doing for Showtime over the years, news of a seventh season shouldn’t really come as too much of a surprise to fans. Most people can probably agree that there’s still a lot of story to tell in regards to the Gallagher family and the prospect of spending more time with these beloved characters is certainly something that excites us.
In fact, in her review earlier this week, our very own Samantha White concluded the following about the show:
With the premiere of its sixth season,...
- 1/13/2016
- by Mark Cassidy
- We Got This Covered
Signature Entertainment
Written and Directed by Justin Simien, Dear White People follows a group of black students as they navigate campus life and politics at a predominantly white college in this sharp and very funny feature film debut. The unexpected election of activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson, Selma) as head of a Winchester University residence starts a culture war that ignites the campus.
While Sam uses her notoriety as host of the provocative radio show ‘Dear White People’, Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams, The Walking Dead) is recruited by an all white student newspaper to go undercover and write about black culture with only one problem- its something he knows little about! Meanwhile Coco Conners (Teyonah Parris, Mad Men) tries to use the growing controversy to carve out a career in reality TV. However no one at Winchester University is prepared for the student newspaper’s outrageous, ill-conceived annual Halloween party...
Written and Directed by Justin Simien, Dear White People follows a group of black students as they navigate campus life and politics at a predominantly white college in this sharp and very funny feature film debut. The unexpected election of activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson, Selma) as head of a Winchester University residence starts a culture war that ignites the campus.
While Sam uses her notoriety as host of the provocative radio show ‘Dear White People’, Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams, The Walking Dead) is recruited by an all white student newspaper to go undercover and write about black culture with only one problem- its something he knows little about! Meanwhile Coco Conners (Teyonah Parris, Mad Men) tries to use the growing controversy to carve out a career in reality TV. However no one at Winchester University is prepared for the student newspaper’s outrageous, ill-conceived annual Halloween party...
- 10/30/2015
- by Dan Powell
- Obsessed with Film
An uneven but occasionally piercing study of stereotyping
“You’re more Banksy than Barack!” Justin Simien’s satirical portrait of identity crises in “post-racial” America took around $4.5m at the Us box office (no mean feat for such a low-budget film), but struggled to secure UK theatrical distribution until the New Black Film Collective stepped in to give it a much-deserved cinema release.
The story unfolds on the fictional campus of Winchester University, where activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hosts the eponymous radio show. When Sam is elected head of Armstrong Parker House, she attempts to prevent the college from diversifying (“randomising”) the hall’s cultural profile, putting her at loggerheads with an administration who believe that racism is a thing of the past and “the only people talking about it are Mexicans”.
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“You’re more Banksy than Barack!” Justin Simien’s satirical portrait of identity crises in “post-racial” America took around $4.5m at the Us box office (no mean feat for such a low-budget film), but struggled to secure UK theatrical distribution until the New Black Film Collective stepped in to give it a much-deserved cinema release.
The story unfolds on the fictional campus of Winchester University, where activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hosts the eponymous radio show. When Sam is elected head of Armstrong Parker House, she attempts to prevent the college from diversifying (“randomising”) the hall’s cultural profile, putting her at loggerheads with an administration who believe that racism is a thing of the past and “the only people talking about it are Mexicans”.
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- 7/12/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Racism is over in America. That’s the conclusion reached by far too many people in the real world apparently, and the new film Dear White People sets out to address those opinions on both sides of the color-divide through a combination of frequent laughs and a sharply farcical commentary. If Higher Learning and P.C.U. spent a drunken night together this would be the frowned-upon result of that union. Just don’t call it a movilatto. Winchester University is an Ivy League school populated primarily with white students, but the campus ignites with controversy after one of the houses hosts a racially-fueled party inviting people to come celebrate and liberate their “inner negro.” We then jump back several weeks in the lives of a quartet of black students who find their own personal agendas intertwined and altered leading up to the party. Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) is at the center of it all thanks to...
- 10/17/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Although amateurish at times, belying its status as a debut feature for writer-director Justin Simien, Dear White People demands attention for the disarming way it uses humor to address a variety of issues about race. Not since Spike Lee’s early work has there been a movie so full of provocative ideas—and a sly sense of humor. The setting is a mostly-white Ivy League-type college where a militant black student named Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) makes regular appearances on the campus radio station, beginning her diatribes with the salutation, “Dear White People.” Her ex-boyfriend (Brandon P. Bell) couldn’t be more different. He never makes waves and he’s dating a white girl. Samantha’s...
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- 10/17/2014
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
There’s a scene in Justin Simien’s debut feature "Dear White People," where Samantha White, the outspoken black college activist, film student and host of the controversial campus radio show, "Dear White People," gives a film presentation reimagining D.W. Griffith's "The Birth Of Nation," using white-face actors to illustrate the fear of a black president. The classroom reacts, stunned. Later, she engages in a personal debate with a white, male classmate. They seem to have a genuine connection, or even a friendship. In this way, the film operates as smart, satirical exploration of identity and the ways it fluctuates- how notions of blackness, of...
- 10/16/2014
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
“Racism is over in America,” declares the snooty president of the elite (and fictional) Winchester University halfway through Dear White People. Would you believe that said president is a white character? Clearly, this is a man unqualified to run an institution that would not likely accept the above declarative sentence as an essay thesis statement. The character certainly fits the college experience as it is often depicted in film – one completely isolated from what any generic student character actually goes through on campus.
Thankfully, writer/director Justin Simien (making a bold debut here) does all he can to flip a film about post-secondary life on its head. Here, the characters are mostly a range of contradictions and complexities who speak their minds with the same sharp wit and intelligence that fits the profile of any student at an elite university. Dear White People may often be more of an investigation...
Thankfully, writer/director Justin Simien (making a bold debut here) does all he can to flip a film about post-secondary life on its head. Here, the characters are mostly a range of contradictions and complexities who speak their minds with the same sharp wit and intelligence that fits the profile of any student at an elite university. Dear White People may often be more of an investigation...
- 10/16/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Lionsgate has released a great red-band trailer for director Justin Simien's fantastic looking film Dear White People. The movie is a satire about stereotypes, racism, and culture clashes, on a college campus. I've heard nothing but great things about this movie, so I'm looking forward to watching it when it's released later this month. The trailer isn't crazy out of control or anything, but you might want to put your headphones on if you're at work.
The unexpected election of activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) as head of a traditionally black residence hall sets up a college campus culture war that challenges conventional notions of what it means to be black. While Sam leverages her notoriety as host of the provocative and polarizing radio show “Dear White People” to try to prevent the college from diversifying Armstrong Parker House, outgoing head-of-house Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), son of the...
The unexpected election of activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) as head of a traditionally black residence hall sets up a college campus culture war that challenges conventional notions of what it means to be black. While Sam leverages her notoriety as host of the provocative and polarizing radio show “Dear White People” to try to prevent the college from diversifying Armstrong Parker House, outgoing head-of-house Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), son of the...
- 10/9/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Dear White People has released a new red band trailer.
Justin Simien's acclaimed Sundance Film Festival comedy has also debuted a new clip.
Warning: Video contains content that viewers may find offensive:
The movie satirises the portrayal of black characters in Hollywood through the tale of African-American students living on a largely white university campus.
Tessa Thompson stars as activist Samantha White, who runs the provocative student radio show 'Dear White People'.
As she struggles to prevent the diversification of her traditionally all-black residence hall, geeky Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams) is recruited by his white classmates to go undercover in the protests for the student newspaper.
Teyonah Parris, Brandon P Bell, Kyle Gallner, Malcolm Barrett, Brittany Curran, Marque Richardson and Dennis Haysbert also feature in the film.
Dear White People won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance.
The film has launched a series...
Justin Simien's acclaimed Sundance Film Festival comedy has also debuted a new clip.
Warning: Video contains content that viewers may find offensive:
The movie satirises the portrayal of black characters in Hollywood through the tale of African-American students living on a largely white university campus.
Tessa Thompson stars as activist Samantha White, who runs the provocative student radio show 'Dear White People'.
As she struggles to prevent the diversification of her traditionally all-black residence hall, geeky Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams) is recruited by his white classmates to go undercover in the protests for the student newspaper.
Teyonah Parris, Brandon P Bell, Kyle Gallner, Malcolm Barrett, Brittany Curran, Marque Richardson and Dennis Haysbert also feature in the film.
Dear White People won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance.
The film has launched a series...
- 10/9/2014
- Digital Spy
The title of Justin Simien’s provoca-comedy on its own hints at the tone we should expect from his award-winning chucklefest. Dear White People has already cleaned up on the festival circuit. After nabbing the Sundance Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, the movie is making its way to the masses this month and today, a brand new red-band trailer has arrived to get you in the mood for a laugh in what’s normally a horror-infested month.
Taking place in a typical American college, the film explores the clashing of cultures, in a perfect blend of un-pc commentary. The trailer introduces us to the cast of characters, led by activist Samantha White, who all embark on a riotous journey that examines racism and stereotypes. All the while delivering a lot of choice laughs. The material walks a tricky line, as at the core of the matter is a topic that still demands attention,...
Taking place in a typical American college, the film explores the clashing of cultures, in a perfect blend of un-pc commentary. The trailer introduces us to the cast of characters, led by activist Samantha White, who all embark on a riotous journey that examines racism and stereotypes. All the while delivering a lot of choice laughs. The material walks a tricky line, as at the core of the matter is a topic that still demands attention,...
- 10/8/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Justin Simien's indie satire Dear White People hits screens October 17th and while early teasers and clips have certainly let us know what the film's all about we certainly haven't gotten the full bite of the comedy until this latest red-band effort.The unexpected election of activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) as head of a traditionally black residence hall sets up a college campus culture war that challenges conventional notions of what it means to be black. While Sam leverages her notoriety as host of the provocative and polarizing radio show "Dear White People" to try to prevent the college from diversifying Armstrong Parker House, outgoing head-of-house Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), son of the university's dean (Dennis Haysbert), defies his father's lofty expectations by applying...
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- 10/8/2014
- Screen Anarchy
“Dear white people,” Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) begins her college radio broadcast. “The minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, but your weed man, Tyrone, does not count.”
After taking the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance, first-time feature writer and director Justin Simien’s college race relations comedy is preparing to hit theaters with just as much verve as Samantha’s radio show. Dear White People’s trailer includes some of Samantha’s best zingers (“dating a black person to piss off your parents is a form...
After taking the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance, first-time feature writer and director Justin Simien’s college race relations comedy is preparing to hit theaters with just as much verve as Samantha’s radio show. Dear White People’s trailer includes some of Samantha’s best zingers (“dating a black person to piss off your parents is a form...
- 7/23/2014
- by Jackson McHenry
- EW - Inside Movies
I'm already convinced I need to see Justin Simien's Dear White People based on that first teaser trailer alone, but if you weren't already aboard Roadside has released a second, full trailer for the upcoming race relations satire centered on a group of African American students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college. The unexpected election of activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) as head of a traditionally black residence hall sets up a college campus culture war that challenges conventional notions of what it means to be black. While Sam leverages her notoriety as host of the provocative and polarizing radio show "Dear White People" to try to prevent the college from diversifying Armstrong Parker House, outgoing head-of-house Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), son of the university's dean (Dennis Haysbert), defies his father's lofty expectations by applying to join the staff of Pastiche,...
- 7/23/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Dear White People has released its first full trailer.
Justin Simien's satirises the portrayal of black characters in Hollywood through the tale of African-American students living on a largely white university campus.
Tessa Thompson stars as activist Samantha White, who runs the provocative student radio show 'Dear White People'.
As she struggles to prevent the diversification of her traditionally all-black residence hall, geeky Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams) is recruited by his white classmates to go undercover in the protests for the student newspaper.
Teyonah Parris, Brandon P Bell, Kyle Gallner, Malcolm Barrett, Brittany Curran, Marque Richardson and Dennis Haysbert also feature in the film.
The movie won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the Sundance Film Festival.
Dear White People will be released on October 17 in the Us. A UK release date is yet to be announced.
Justin Simien's satirises the portrayal of black characters in Hollywood through the tale of African-American students living on a largely white university campus.
Tessa Thompson stars as activist Samantha White, who runs the provocative student radio show 'Dear White People'.
As she struggles to prevent the diversification of her traditionally all-black residence hall, geeky Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams) is recruited by his white classmates to go undercover in the protests for the student newspaper.
Teyonah Parris, Brandon P Bell, Kyle Gallner, Malcolm Barrett, Brittany Curran, Marque Richardson and Dennis Haysbert also feature in the film.
The movie won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the Sundance Film Festival.
Dear White People will be released on October 17 in the Us. A UK release date is yet to be announced.
- 7/23/2014
- Digital Spy
How do you make a comedy about contemporary race relations in America, without being reductive or offensive? Hell, don't ask us, but writer/director Justin Simien seems to have figured it out and then some. His "Dear White People" was a buzz title at this year's Sundance Film Festival, winning the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, and a new full-length trailer has arrived to present the sharp satire. The film takes viewers to the campus of Winchester University, where activist Samantha White is elected as head of a traditionally black residence hall. She uses her notoriety as host of the provocative and polarizing radio show “Dear White People” to try to prevent the college from diversifying Armstrong Parker House. Meanwhile, Afro-wearing geek Lionel Higgins is recruited by the otherwise all-white student newspaper to go undercover and write about black culture, and this and more hijinks converge during the ill-conceived “unleash your.
- 7/22/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Dear White People has released a trailer.
The comedy satirises the portrayal of black characters in Hollywood through the tale of African-American students living on a largely white university campus.
It features a clip in which Tessa Thompson's character Samantha White gives a cutting and hilarious reading of racism in Gremlins.
Tyler James Williams, Teyonah Parris, Brandon P Bell, Kyle Gallner, Malcolm Barrett, Brittany Curran, Marque Richardson and Dennis Haysbert also feature in writer-director Justin Simien's film.
The film took the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent in January.
Dear White People will be released on October 17 in the Us. A UK release date is yet to be announced.
The comedy satirises the portrayal of black characters in Hollywood through the tale of African-American students living on a largely white university campus.
It features a clip in which Tessa Thompson's character Samantha White gives a cutting and hilarious reading of racism in Gremlins.
Tyler James Williams, Teyonah Parris, Brandon P Bell, Kyle Gallner, Malcolm Barrett, Brittany Curran, Marque Richardson and Dennis Haysbert also feature in writer-director Justin Simien's film.
The film took the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent in January.
Dear White People will be released on October 17 in the Us. A UK release date is yet to be announced.
- 6/20/2014
- Digital Spy
Dear White People
Written and directed by Justin Simien
USA, 2014
“Dear white people,” croons Samantha White (Tessa Thompson), a biracial media studies major and controversial radio host at the fictional Ivy League school that serves as the backdrop for writer-director Justin Simien’s debut feature Dear White People, “the amount of black friends required to not seem racist has now been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone does not count.”
Mere moments after the lights have dimmed, Simien is already delivering on the film’s tagline: A satire about being a black face in a white place. Drawing from his own college experience in the early 2000s and pushed by a desire to confront issues that weren’t being foregrounded in contemporary popular culture, Dear White People is a passion project that’s been years in the making. Yet despite its title and central conflict (a group of...
Written and directed by Justin Simien
USA, 2014
“Dear white people,” croons Samantha White (Tessa Thompson), a biracial media studies major and controversial radio host at the fictional Ivy League school that serves as the backdrop for writer-director Justin Simien’s debut feature Dear White People, “the amount of black friends required to not seem racist has now been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone does not count.”
Mere moments after the lights have dimmed, Simien is already delivering on the film’s tagline: A satire about being a black face in a white place. Drawing from his own college experience in the early 2000s and pushed by a desire to confront issues that weren’t being foregrounded in contemporary popular culture, Dear White People is a passion project that’s been years in the making. Yet despite its title and central conflict (a group of...
- 4/30/2014
- by Misa Shikuma
- SoundOnSight
A lot of movies were bought at this year's Sundance Film Festival , but there's always a few stragglers that don't find distribution immediately despite faring well at the festival. One of those cases is Justin Simien's satire Dear White People , a feature film based on his short film that went viral a few years back. Now, it looks like Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have decided to team up to bring Simien's movie to North American theaters. Set at a Midwestern University that's been experiencing difficulties between its white and black populations, the movie's perspective is seen through the eyes of four very different African-Americans including shy Lionel (Tyler James Williams), who is being bullied by his white fratmates, Tessa Thompson's militant DJ Samantha White,...
- 3/19/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Our Sundance Film Festival coverage continues with Michael Cusumano on breakthrough talent winner "Dear White People"
At the fictional Ivy League University of Westchester Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hosts a radio show called ‘Dear White People’ in which she delivers a series of confrontational, button-pushing edicts directed at the school’s majority white population. For example:
Dear White People, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count.”
It’s sharp material, and Justin Simien’s Dear White People would have done well to apply the same biting insight to the rest of the film. [more...]...
At the fictional Ivy League University of Westchester Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hosts a radio show called ‘Dear White People’ in which she delivers a series of confrontational, button-pushing edicts directed at the school’s majority white population. For example:
Dear White People, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count.”
It’s sharp material, and Justin Simien’s Dear White People would have done well to apply the same biting insight to the rest of the film. [more...]...
- 1/26/2014
- by Michael C.
- FilmExperience
“For all the white people in the audience, on behalf of all the black people in the world, you most definitely have permission to laugh.” That’s the disclaimer first-time director Justin Simien has been issuing before every Sundance screening of his biting satire of racial politics, Dear White People, which he also wrote. Laugh they did. And judging from a post-screening Q&A that consisted entirely of people standing up to give personal testimonials and lavish effusive praise on Simien, the cast, and the crew, Dwp is most definitely a front-runner to take home the festival’s Audience Award.The title refers to an incendiary radio show at a fictional Ivy League college, Winchester University, hosted by a militant revolutionary, biracial film student named Samantha White (Tessa Thompson), who believes Gremlins is about white people’s fear of black urban encroachment, because the little monsters go crazy for fried...
- 1/20/2014
- by Jada Yuan
- Vulture
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