"It's as if television, media, and filmmaking are becoming manifest destiny in the wrong ways," says Maya Cade, founder of the Black Film Archive. "And there's nothing sadder."
When we look closely at history, we realize that all the negotiations we have to make about character, about financing, about representation and all these things have been asked before," says Maya Cade. "Ego tells us that we must be the first, but why would we want that to be true?"
Cade knew better. So she got to work and built a database of Black cinema titles that included diverse, obscure, and well-known movies. A former audience development strategist, she says people were missing a larger context to the issues at hand in media representation.
It's a moment when people were demanding the full totality of our lives to be represented in media, they felt as if Black Film could not hold the capacity for Blackness."
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