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Tributes and Retrospectives - L.A. Rebellion
The movie follows an African-american television reporter in her professional duality, as she keeps having to compromise her political principles to keep a corporate-sediated job - something blatantly obvious when she has to register and film moments within a prison, under her white bosses’ prejudice and pressure. Simultaneously, a member from the Black Panther party gets out of prison only to realize his ex-peers have turned their backs to the movement, and its headquarters repurposed and unusable.
Grey Area then refers to the spaces of compromise seemingly needed to be in a white society. Released in 1980 - in a post-Watts’ revolution, post-Black Panthers’ dissolution moment -, the movie keeps track of the fading in socio-political movements and contributions, not only within the bacl community in L.A,, but all around the USA.
Grey Area then refers to the spaces of compromise seemingly needed to be in a white society. Released in 1980 - in a post-Watts’ revolution, post-Black Panthers’ dissolution moment -, the movie keeps track of the fading in socio-political movements and contributions, not only within the bacl community in L.A,, but all around the USA.
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Cast:
Haskell V. Anderson III, Eve Holloway, Lance E. Nichols, Sy Richardson -
Original Title:
Grey Area -
Country:
United States of America -
Year:
1981 - 38' EN, Subtitles: PT
Director
Monona Wali
Monona Wali is a short story writer and novelist, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, born in 1955 in Benares.
As a UCLA master student in the UCLA’s Theater, Film and Television School, Wali won the Lynn Weston Memorial Prize. The movie she submitted as her master thesis project, Grey Area (1983), was shown in multiple worldwide festivals and distributed by the Black Filmmakers Foundation. Wali also co-directed Maria’s Story (1990), a documentary about a guerilla leader in Salvador’s civil war, which was awarded the Blue Ribbon Edward R. Murrow award at the American Film Festival, among other distinctions.
Monona Wali has since lived in Los Angeles, where she has taught creative writing and volunteered at InsideOut, an organization that offers creative writing classes for incarcerated youth. Her short stories have been published in journals internationally, and her debut novel Blue Skin Lover, about the spiritual awakening of an ambitious adult woman.
As a UCLA master student in the UCLA’s Theater, Film and Television School, Wali won the Lynn Weston Memorial Prize. The movie she submitted as her master thesis project, Grey Area (1983), was shown in multiple worldwide festivals and distributed by the Black Filmmakers Foundation. Wali also co-directed Maria’s Story (1990), a documentary about a guerilla leader in Salvador’s civil war, which was awarded the Blue Ribbon Edward R. Murrow award at the American Film Festival, among other distinctions.
Monona Wali has since lived in Los Angeles, where she has taught creative writing and volunteered at InsideOut, an organization that offers creative writing classes for incarcerated youth. Her short stories have been published in journals internationally, and her debut novel Blue Skin Lover, about the spiritual awakening of an ambitious adult woman.
