'Two Distant Strangers' Director Responds to Claim He Copied 2016 Film: 'The Time Loop Film Device Is Not New'
On April 30, filmmaker Cynthia Kao posted a video to TikTok in which she drew connections between her four-minute short film titled Groundhog Day for a Black Man and Free's project. Kao explained that her film, which was released in December 2016, follows a Black man who relives the same day and "tries to survive a police interaction." Kao says that a producer from video news outlet NowThis reached out asking for her permission to use pieces of the video in a report after the killing of George Floyd in 2020. In an email seen in Kao's TikTok, the producer said they found the short "very p...
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