With abortion on the ballot in multiple states in Tuesday’s election, writer-director Nazrin Choudhury’s Oscar-nominated short red, white, blue News about a single mother seeking an abortion feels as timely as ever. The British-born multi-hyphenate didn’t always think so.
“With the upcoming election, abortion is such a critical topic, which means it’s such a timely topic for people to talk about. “It’s so timely. “Sadly, this feels like an eternity to me,” she told hollywood reporter.
“We always seemed to need to tell this story. I always wanted to say, ‘Oh, let’s try to make my story redundant so we don’t have to make a movie like this,'” she continued. “But we have to tell the stories of ordinary people and Americans.”
red, white, blue Majic Ink Productions and Level Forward announced Monday that it will premiere for free on YouTube this week. “We got a huge response and feedback from it,” Chowdhury explains.
Starring Brittney Snow and Juliette Donenford and executive produced by Samantha Bee, the film follows Snow, a young single mother from Arkansas who is forced to cross state lines to seek an abortion. Chance.
Since being nominated for a 2024 Oscar, the film has been strategically screened across the country in an effort to appeal to voters of all political leanings, according to a press release. To get the film out to the world before Election Day, it took a team of professionals in film, public relations, and more to come together to make it happen.
“Red, White and Blue” poster.
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On Wednesday, Penn students and faculty participated in a nationwide student-led screening and moderated discussion event, with attendees including Choudhury, Black Voters Matter’s LaTosha Brown, Crooked Media’s Mellie Professors Shah Murray and Kate Shaw. strict review Podcasts and more.
“This event has been planned for a while and is profound because my teenagers will carry on this legacy,” said the writer-director, who explained that he was “engaging in the community” through an event with students from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. Significant.
“I think it’s very important because this generation is going to inherit all our mistakes. I think we need to break that cycle because we always leave it to them. They have to deal with the troubles of their elders,” she explained.
For Chowdhury, making this film was both important and deeply personal. She explained that she had produced the film herself and asked her children if they could tap into her accumulated college savings. The filmmakers say the team has taken red, white, blue Church communities in places like Arizona and Wisconsin. As Chaudhry describes it, “a place where you would think people would be resistant to having this conversation,” however, she found that people were not unwilling to have conversations about abortion.
“Our main goal is just to try to figure out which communities can participate in these welfare screenings, and then yes, in this last ditch effort, our future as women will be decided at the ballot box,” Chaudhry began.
“When Vice President Kamala Harris says women are bleeding… it’s like I’m bleeding myself, but luckily not in a parking lot, I’m being treated in a hospital,” she continued said. “I just wanted to make sure that when we shot this movie, it had the maximum power, potency and urgency.”
The short film will be available on YouTube during election week. Every view of the film will generate a donation to the film’s Purple Parlor Fund, which benefits nonpartisan organizations working on reproductive rights, justice, and film impact movements.
