She says she quickly understood the aims of O’Shay’s project: “Social movements are way more than charismatic, male figureheads. We do this for generations upon generations who are gonna look back on this moment and say, 'What happened?' If so, O’Shay doesn’t regret it: “One of the things I felt makes the film unique, is that you can tell that a Black woman made it,” she says. We just need to have the facts correct.”For all involved in the film, Unapologetic isn’t just a record of the movement, it is the movement. But, says Bonsu, it also makes documentaries like this one all the more urgent: “If movements don’t tell our own stories, then somebody else will – and they’ll probably tell it wrong.”

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2021 13:16 UTC