The number of African-American stories being told at the cineplex this year amount to a “renaissance” propelled by an “Obama effect,” said movie studio chief Harvey Weinstein at the Toronto Film Festival on Monday.
“Hopefully it signals, with President Obama, a renaissance. He’s erasing racial lines. It is the Obama effect. It’s a better country. What a great thing,” Weinstein shared.
The line-up of films include the brutal slave drama that some are already calling the likeliest movie to take an Oscar, 12 Years a Slave, tells the true story of a free black man captured and forced into slavery.
Weinstein has three other movies telling black stories this year, Fruitvale, about a young black man shot needlessly by police on New Year’s Eve in Oakland, Calif.; Mandela, about the South African liberation leader; and The Butler which surprised Hollywood with it’s box office success last month.
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