Not often do we get film directors speak publicly about other things beyond films and filmmaking, so this is a change from the usual.
In October, Amma Asnate, the writer and director of last year’s much acclaimed film "Belle," gave a talk at the TED conference in the Brixton community in London, which starts off with her sharing her struggles of being a black woman director in the film business; However, it soon evolves into a broader discussion about, as she calls it, "the pressure to live up to a definition bestowed upon her; one that did not match her own self definition." She elaborates on how she successfully dealt with that pressure.
In other words, life…
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