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Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks and More AAFCA Nominees Praise Org for Celebrating Black Storytelling: ‘It’s Amazing to Be Celebrated by Your People’
Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks and more AAFCA nominees praise the org for celebrating Black storytelling.
Performers including Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Lily Gladstone, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Danielle Brooks will also be celebrated during the ceremony, hosted once again by Roy Wood Jr. “American Fiction” writer and director Cord Jefferson, recipient of this year’s emerging filmmaker award from AAFCA, deeply connected with Percival Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure,” upon which his Oscar-nominated film is based, because he was passionate about its sociopolitical themes and related to the subplot of Black siblings reuniting to care for a dying parent. “The conversations the book was having were ones I’ve been having with my friends and colleagues for decades: the limitations people put on Black writers and stories,” Jefferson adds, noting that getting the film made was not easy.
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