"Here are the 25 women directors who have helmed QUEEN SUGAR over our past three seasons. For 21 of them, it was their first episode of television.
They’ve since gone on to direct for many other shows:
The list goes on.
These women just needed a first YES.
To my fellow Executive Producers, to the studio execs, to the network decision makers, as you staff up for fall, consider saying: YES"
The black female images we're seeing on television and in the movies is the result of black women pulling other black women up.
The result has been that other groups see our stories as worth telling. HIDDEN FIGURES might not have gotten made if shows like Scandal hadn't proven a show with a black female lead couldn't capture and hold an audience for years -- maybe if Shonda Rhimes hadn't taken over an entire night of television on ABC for a few years.
Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes and Mara Brock Akil have all put black women in front of the camera and behind the camera. They are giving black female life to Hollywood.
We as black women are the sheroes we've been waiting for.
And we are putting positive black female images on television and in the movies that black girls will be able to value and emulate and dream about from now on.
QUEEN SUGAR is on Oprah Winfey's OWN on Wednesday Nights This Summer
BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM
- American Crime.
- Underground.
- Scandal.
- Grey’s Anatomy.
- Power.
- Ozark.
- Transparent.
- 13 Reasons Why.
- Insecure.
- Luke Cage.
- Greenleaf.
- Dear White People.
- Black Lightening.
- Love Is.
- Agents of SHIELD.
- Survivors Remorse.
- Star.
- Chicago Med.
- The Fosters.
- Claws.
- The Chi.
The list goes on.
These women just needed a first YES.
To my fellow Executive Producers, to the studio execs, to the network decision makers, as you staff up for fall, consider saying: YES"
~Ava DuVernay
(facebook post)
The black female images we're seeing on television and in the movies is the result of black women pulling other black women up.
The result has been that other groups see our stories as worth telling. HIDDEN FIGURES might not have gotten made if shows like Scandal hadn't proven a show with a black female lead couldn't capture and hold an audience for years -- maybe if Shonda Rhimes hadn't taken over an entire night of television on ABC for a few years.
Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes and Mara Brock Akil have all put black women in front of the camera and behind the camera. They are giving black female life to Hollywood.
We as black women are the sheroes we've been waiting for.
And we are putting positive black female images on television and in the movies that black girls will be able to value and emulate and dream about from now on.
QUEEN SUGAR is on Oprah Winfey's OWN on Wednesday Nights This Summer
BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM
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