Oscars 2021: Why Two Distant Strangers is 'important and necessary'
BBC News By Vincent Dowd image captionRap star Joey Bada$$ plays the central character Carter Travon Free was co-writing a romcom screenplay last year when George Floyd died. Free decided the romcom would have to wait - as an African American, he wanted to create a serious screenplay addressing the police killings of black people in the US. But the resulting short film, Two Distant Strangers, which is nominated at this weeks Oscars, still borrows a lot from one of the big comedy hits of the 19...
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