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 week's Oscars, still borrows a lot from one of the big comedy hits of the 1990s. Travon Free started his career as a writer on Comedy Central's Daily Show. Last May, he was at...
Source: bbc.co.uk