Sundance: 'Birth of a Nation' Sets Record With $17.5M Sale to Fox Searchlight
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HOLLYWOOD---Murdering a baby, taking an axe to a sleeping woman and slaughtering children in a schoolroom - the bloody 'true account' of rebel slave who inspired movie being hailed as antidote to the white Oscars. "The Birth Of a Nation" has just secured biggest ever deal at Sundance film festival at same time as row over all-white Oscars
Movie tells story of Nat Turner's rebellion in Virginia in 1831 when slave killed up to 60 whites, including his master. [link]
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| To the list of Sundance 2016 deals so far we can now add another, and not just any deal; this is the biggest sale in the long history of Robert Redford’s film festival. |
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| The writer-director-producer also stars as Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in 1831 |
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| Big noise: The Birth of a Nation was shown for the first time at the Sundance festival this month and achieved the biggest ever deal signed at it. It stars Nate Parker as Nat Turner |
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| Contemporary depiction: This was how a woodcut of the time depicted the Turner rebellion, saying that it portrayed (left) a mother pleading for her children's lives, a Mr. Travis being murdered (center) and (right) Mr. Harrow, who defended himself while his wife escaped |