The Birth of a Nation, a drama
movie on a slave revolt that broke out in 19th century in Virginia
has bagged two awards at Sundance Film Festival this year.
Nate Parker who is the director, producer and actor of the movie won the US dramatic audience prize and the US dramatic jury prize on Saturday.
There can be no better timing for this award to come as the Academy Awards is being surrounded by controversy over diversity.
The documentary award at the Sundance has gone to Weiner and in the same category the audience award has gone to Jim: The James Foley Story.
At a time when lot of chaos and
problem is going on the lack of diversity in the nominations picked up by the
Academy Awards and the Oscars have raised big question in the minds of people,
the harsh issue of inequality highlighted in the movie from Parker must have
struck the right cord.
The Sundance Awards are held
almost at the same time when the popular Screen Awards are held and it touches
more diverse background, something that is being highly questioned.
Other actors who have been
honoured at the awards include Idris Alba, the famous British actor who for the
character played by him as Luther. He also played a role in the Beasts of No Nation,
wherein he played a supporting role.
Parker, after receiving the
awards, was saying that Sundance Film Festival can be compared to a wonderful
experience at a summer camp. The actor mentioned that this awards means a lot
to him and it can be said to be one of the greatest moments of his career.
The Birth of Nation is the story
about a slave known as Nat Turner, who faced the cruel system along with many
others, till the time they started out the rebel in 1831.
Speaking about the movie, Nate Parker
mentioned that he was very passionate about making the movie and he poured in
everything when he made this movie.
The actor added mentioned that he
made the movie to act as an agent of change with the hope that someone will be
affected by it.
Source: BBC
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