{"id":23164,"date":"2021-02-04T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitchen.com\/?p=23164"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:50:31","slug":"valiant-pictures-the-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.techsystintel.com\/press_kitchen_dev\/valiant-pictures-the-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Wrap, Valiant Pictures&#8217; Em Weinstein Talks American Masculinity in Oscar Contenders Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2 class=\"title\">Meet the Oscar Short Contenders Who Took on Racist Cops, Rape Culture and Mourning (Video)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"vuukle-horizontal-container\">\n<div class=\"vuukle-powerbar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"excerpt\">\n<p>Six filmmakers who left a lasting impact \u2014 in 40 minutes or less \u2014 join the TheWrap\u2019s Awards Screening Series<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"OSCAR CONTENDERS SHOWCASE: NIGHT 2 - Best Live Action\/Animated Short Entries\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1W3fjv0s1Y?feature=oembed&#038;width=840&#038;height=1000&#038;discover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a year that forced the world to confront the toughest issues before it, many of the contenders in the 2021 Oscar short film categories explore those issues in 40 minutes or less. Six of those contenders joined TheWrap\u2019s Awards Screening Series to discuss their work on topics from Black Lives Matter to sexist abuse around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Emmy-winning filmmaker Travon Free and rapper Joey Bada$$ are gunning for a nomination with their live-action short \u201cTwo Distant Strangers,\u201d which follows in the vein of \u201cGroundhog Day,\u201d \u201cPalm Springs\u201d and the \u201cTwilight Zone\u201d episode \u201cRewind\u201d as it follows a Black cartoonist who is forced to relive his George Floyd-esque murder at the hands of multiple cops over and over. Free wrote the film in five days just weeks after Floyd\u2019s death and was filmed in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really important to tell this story and get it out into the world because it was an expression of what myself and a lot of people I know were feeling at the time, the repetition of seeing Black people being murdered and having to live through the trauma of processing those feelings over and over,\u201d Free said. \u201cIt was a visceral, direct response to what we were feeling last summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"dsk-box-ad-e\" data-google-query-id=\"CLrMzqrl0O4CFU2ApgQdujAIPg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/134702932\/0480-thewrap.com_3__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A more tender piece of Black filmmaking comes from Camrus Johnson and his animated short film \u201cGrab My Hand,\u201d a personal message from him to his grieving father who was mourning the loss of his brother. The short came as Johnson was working on another animated project and the sudden loss left Johnson wanting to do something for his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found myself not knowing how to communicate with my dad,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dad lost his best friend\u2026they would call each other every day, and it was the first time really seeing my dad speechless and heartbroken. So the only way to really communicate what I want to say is filmmaking, and the thing with animation is I like to explain it as\u2026I can put my heart on screen in the way I exactly imagine it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Em Weinstein put a little bit of themself in their LGBT film \u201cIn France, Michelle Is A Man\u2019s Name.\u201d Having been raised in rural Oregon before moving out to the East Coast and still loving the countryside despite the cultural conflicts, Weinstein made the American West the center of his tale about a trans man who comes back home to his estranged parents after years of separation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really wanted to make a movie about a young trans man coming back from the city where he\u2019s made his home and returning to the country where he was raised,\u201d Weinstein said. \u201cI wanted to look at what American masculinity is and masculinity in general because I think it is something so absurd and beautiful and pathetic and something I still don\u2019t understand even though it has such control over our world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the international side is Seayoon Jeong and her film \u201cBreaking the Silence,\u201d which is based on the true story of the decades-long fight for justice for comfort women, the sex slaves forced into prostitution by the Japanese Empire during World War II and thousands of whom were slaughtered during the Asian Holocaust. Jeong was inspired to speak out through the stories she heard growing up from her teachers and her grandmother, who died five years ago, and wanted to ensure that the stories of these women \u2014 even the most harrowing parts \u2014 were not forgotten.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dsk-box-ad-f\" data-google-query-id=\"CLvMzqrl0O4CFU2ApgQdujAIPg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/134702932\/0480-thewrap.com_4__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I talk to people about comfort women, they understood what sexual slavery was, but they didn\u2019t really understand what these women went through,\u201d Jeong said. \u201cI wanted people to truly understand what being a comfort woman was like, and that meant including a torture scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaan Vyas, who co-produced the Oscar-winning short documentary \u201cPeriod. End of Sentence,\u201d has returned with \u201cNatkhat,\u201d a story about a mother who has suffered the abuse of domestic violence for years within her marriage and sees India\u2019s culture of machismo starting to influence her impressionable young son, Sonu. Determined to stop the cycle of abuse, she begins to tell Sonu bedtime stories to make him sensitive to the plight of women, until one day Sonu accidentally discovers the truth of his mother\u2019s suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery bit of reform we have in this country to resolve [rape culture] has been palliative in its nature, happening after the abuse has taken place, and this is not just in India. This is around the world, the #MeToo movement was happening right around the same time,\u201d Vyas said. \u201cYoung kids the age of 10 look around and they see the biggest sports stars, the soldiers, the policemen are all men, and so they begin to think that men are the superior gender. So I thought it would be nice to showcase parenting as a solution\u2026to try to nip patriarchy in the bud where it starts from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there is \u201cForeigner,\u201d a short set in Spain that shows what happens when the opposite ends of class hierarchy collide. The film follows a British tourist who is enjoying a luxurious vacation on the coasts of Spain, only for it to be turned upside down when a strong current draws him out to sea until he is rescued by a raft full of migrants fleeing across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inspiration for the film came from a vacation on the Cadiz coast,\u201d director Carlos Violade said. \u201cIt has beautiful beaches, great food, tourists everywhere\u2026but at the same time there are people dying as they are trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. I was there and all the people told me about the danger of the current to migrants, and I felt like it was a story I had to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"dsk-box-ad-g\" data-google-query-id=\"CLzMzqrl0O4CFU2ApgQdujAIPg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/134702932\/0480-thewrap.com_5__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read original article\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/meet-the-oscar-short-contenders-who-took-on-racist-cops-rape-culture-and-mourning-video\/\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comments-section\" data-post-id=\"5585764\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Oscar Short Contenders Who Took on Racist Cops, Rape Culture and Mourning (Video) Six filmmakers who left a lasting impact \u2014 in 40 minutes or less \u2014 join the TheWrap\u2019s Awards Screening Series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,573],"tags":[2929,3108,3109,3110,574,2863],"class_list":["post-23164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fresh-news","category-valiant-pictures","tag-in-france-michelle-is-a-mans-name","tag-wrapscreenings","tag-shortstv","tag-the-wrap","tag-valiant-pictures","tag-em-weinstein"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>On The Wrap, Valiant Pictures&#039; Em Weinstein Talks American Masculinity in Oscar Contenders Showcase - Press Kitchen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After a year that forced the world to confront the toughest issues before it, many of the contenders in the 2021 Oscar short film categories explore those issues in 40 minutes or less. 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