The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.
- Awards
- 13 wins & 28 nominations
Brandon P Bell
- Troy Fairbanks
- (as Brandon Bell)
Kate Gaulke
- Annie
- (as Katie Gaulke)
Bryan Daniel Porter
- Gordon
- (as Bryan Porter)
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- Writer
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- TriviaSam makes a student film that is critical of what she sees as white people's widespread fear of Barack Obama and titles it "Rebirth of a Nation." This is a reference not only to D.W. Griffith's notoriously racist 1915 Civil War movie The Birth of a Nation (1915) but also to something that filmmaker Spike Lee experienced while he was a first-year student at NYU's graduate film school. After being required to watch Griffith's film and objecting to the fact that his professors taught it only as a milestone in the technical development of cinema with no attention paid to its racism and its legacy of helping to relaunch the KKK, Lee made a student short film titled The Answer (1980) that responded to The Birth of a Nation himself. "The Answer" so offended many of his NYU professors that Lee was nearly expelled from NYU, but was ultimately saved by a faculty vote.
- GoofsWhen Sam is in the dining hall and chastises Kurt for eating in their dining hall - just before she stands up; she closes her Macbook twice.
- Quotes
Professor Bodkin: ...Might I also remind you that I read your entire fifteen-page unsolicited treatise on why the Gremlins is actually about suburban white fear of black culture.
Sam White: The Gremlins are loud, talk in slang, are addicted to fried chicken and freak out when you get their hair wet.
- Crazy creditsThe end credits include photographs of the real-life blackface (and brownface) college parties that inspired the film's climax.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner: Los Angeles (2019)
- Soundtracks45 Drum Break
Performed by The Co-Stars
Written by Neely Dinkins Jr. (as Neely Dinkins)
Vito Colapietro Courtesy of Atom Factory Music Licensing
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Fight the Power
- I think every generation has a film that touches on race and the inequalities of color. Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing comes to mind as do other countless films. In Dear White People (a take off on a character's name that is White) it explores the state of college campus today. Where the halls are segregated and the division is along social economic lines and on the fringes of race. There is the commentary that Obama is half white, so that makes him half right, touches on the degrees of it means to be black today. Not all a series manner, but sometimes you do become the change you want to bring, but often it is much harder to live the talk than to talk the talk. I saw this movie as part of the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival.
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- Apr 9, 2014
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,404,154
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $347,959
- Oct 19, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $4,633,961
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