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Dana Verde. Writer: Grand Gesture. Dana Verde started her career co-hosting a TV show on MTV called Your Movie Show as a film reviewer while pursuing a degree at The New School University in Media Studies/ Screenwriting.
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Dana Verde is an award-winning director and writer who graduated from The London Film School. Her feature directorial debut, Grand Gesture , a romantic comedy about a recently dumped guy who camps outside a Harlem diner in hopes of running into his ex, was nominated best feature film by HBO at the
- “The White Savior”
- Whitewashing
- White Gaze Blindness
A 2016 Oscar nominee for Best Picture,Hidden Figures(written by Allision Schroeder and directed by Theodore Melfi) is a classic example of a white savior movie. This film is about three Black women who were exceptional mathematicians at NASA during the space race. In the film, Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) saves the leading lady, Katherine Goble John...
Another harmful subset of the white gaze is a blurred perspective, also known as “whitewashing.” Continuing with the theme of Hollywood depictions of BIPOC mathematical geniuses, let’s turn to the 2008 movie 21(written by Peter Steinfeld and directed by Robert Luketic). The film was about six MIT students who became blackjack experts and won millio...
Last but not least, the third view of the white gaze that has a habit of ruining a BIPOC story is essentially “white gaze blindness.” This myopia occurs when a BIPOC narrative is refocused to center around the non-person-of-color character(s) while reducing the BIPOC character to a plot point. A perfect example of this is the 1989 film True Believe...
Dana Verde is a screenwriting professor at UArts and an award-winning filmmaker who has written/directed eight short films and a feature film. She has also worked with Brandon T. Jackson, Queen Latifah and Paramount Plus on various projects.
Dana Verde is an award-winning filmmaker who has written/directed eight short films that have screened in over 30 film festivals internationally. She is also an adjunct associate professor of screenwriting at University of the Arts
Dana Verde is an Award-winning filmmaker with an international perspective and appeal. She wrote, directed and produced the films My Daughter, The 8OOlb Gorilla, In Black & White, After, Grand Gesture, The Last Romantics, and Lock & Key.
