You’d done interviews with Criterion before, and they’ve previously streamed your film on the website. How did this opportunity finally come about?
When I had all my shorts back in the aughts, I was like, wow, I want to put all my shorts out there. And I wished they could look like a Criterion box because they’re so important. I love Criterion. So that was one bump. And that was my favorite streamer. So that was the second bump. And then third, it was time to move on from the distributor that we were working with for so many years. And Criterion was right on at that moment. It felt like a great place to put everything.
But the work of a narrative director of feature films of your own making, of your own finding—not the ones that the studio gives you—took seven years of my life. That’s a toll. I’m actually doing work on that right now because I’m about to jump onboard a project that I brought to a studio. They liked it and bought the option from me. And now I’m going to co-write and direct a film about a Black lesbian poet.
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