You May Not Be Seeing It In A Theater Near You
Trouble the Water, a gritty documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, was amazing enough to win the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, but, oddly enough, isn't amazing enough to get picked up for distribution. Why? The rumor is that the film is just "too black." Execs are nervous that there aren't more white people in the movie, which was called "one of the best American documentaries in recent memory" in the New York Times. According to Defamer, this isn't the first time a Sundance winner has had trouble getting distribution because it was deemed too ethnic. Last year's Padre Nostre was considered by industry honchos to be "too Mexican" for mainstream distribution. Meanwhile, there continues to be no such thing as "too white."
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