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Zeinabu Irene Davis On The 25-Year Journey To Release ‘Compensation’ & How The LA Rebellion Lives On Through Filmmakers Like RaMell Ross
‘Compensation’ is on a nationwide release via Janus Films.
Much of world cinema’s lost works have been victims of either technology with poor materials like nitrate film or the ignorance of a limited and often bigoted industry. Compensation screened at Sundance in 2000, receiving positive notices from critics like Roger Ebert and landed an Independent Spirit nod before falling into obscurity. Below, Davis speaks to us about her decades-long journey of bringing Compensation to cinema screens, how the LA Rebellion continues to live on, as she described it, in the work of filmmakers like Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross, and plans for her next feature Stars of the Northern Sky.
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