“Characters in Gaga organically mingle Christian and Atayal beliefs.”
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“Polite Society draws from the personal frustrations and challenges of writer-director Nida Manzoor, who grew up in a Pakistani Muslim family.”
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“It’s nice to see a woman in a semi-autobiographical narrative of a male filmmaker who doesn’t appear as just another flat character.”
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“It’s rare to see Black Muslim Americans depicted with the understated authenticity seen in To Live and Die and Live.”
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“She Said communicates Jodi’s Jewish background through important scenes.”
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“Bones of Crows features a few disability tropes.”
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“The Humans normalizes disability and never flattens it into someone’s sole identity.”
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“In Scarborough, writer Catherine Hernandez raucously celebrates the diversity and resilience of her community.”
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“By virtue of so many Mi’kmaw characters, no single person in Wildhood has to shoulder the brunt of ‘representation.’”
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“Period films disproportionately favor male luminaries, casting history in a skewed light where the contributions of women remain obscure.”
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“Hamtramck, USA neither whitewashes the Muslim experience nor demonizes it.”
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“Atlantics depicts Islam with matter-of-factness: No explanation, no exoticization, nor hiding some of its uglier practices.”
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“It matters that the filmmaker satirizing the horrors of the Holocaust is Jewish.”
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“Radicalizing Kwame Ture more than he was, just to create a false equivalence to the KKK, is troublesome.”
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“Call Me By Your Name has been marketed as a gay romance, yet less overt is its inclusion of Jewish culture.”
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