“We were all dealing with lots of complicated issues and feelings all at once,” Mr. Diggs recalled in a recent interview. The resulting film, “Blindspotting,” arrives on Friday after a nine-year gestation. “Blindspotting,” which stars Mr. Casal and Mr. Diggs and grapples with racial profiling and gentrification, follows “Sorry to Bother You,” a racial satire written and directed by Boots Riley, an Oakland artist-activist. (It has collected $10 million at the box office since July 6, a good result for an indie film.) Leading the pack has been Ryan Coogler, whose “Black Panther” was partly set in Oakland and took in $1.3 billion worldwide earlier this year.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2018 13:18 UTC