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Movie making is hard, and especially so for indie filmmakers. All film producers care about is recouping the investors' dollars, but indie film producers don't have studio war chests against which to write off losses for their good quality but poor performing films. Their livelihood depends on the financial returns. As black indie filmmakers they run up against a number of other obstacles that make their work more challenging.

A vast majority of White people don?t like Black movies because they lack the empathy necessary to identify with Black characters which in turn affects their ability to ?suspend disbelief? and surrender to the narrative of a Black film. When we watch a film we are watching images of people doing tasks in the pursuit of a goal to change a circumstance and it stands to reason that if the threshold of empathy in Whites is higher when watching non-Whites perform certain tasks because of the Racial Empathy Gap, then if the Whites are watching a Black film such a high empathy threshold would make the suspension of disbelief difficult and attenuate the pleasure of their viewing experience.

To sum it up, if you're a consumer of good movies with/by Black folk, buy/rent indie black films as well as Hollywood's offerings if you want them to continue to make films that Hollywood overlooks (don't bootleg).

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lemme watch brotherly love got dope perched on the hdd already

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Both films are contenders for Oscar nominations. Cory did an amazing job in Brotherly Love and the young man in Dope was great as well. It definitely reminded me of The Wood and the Stacey inclusion worked.

[RekeRig]

Dope is on there? Waaaait

[RAY7]

Dope>>>>

[FAMÈ]

Just watched brotherly love yesterday. Good movie.

[Sovereign.]

'Dope' is the shit!

[downtownbrown]

Dope sucked. Brotherly Love was cheap. No thank you to both.

[FAMÈ]

Dope sucked. Brotherly Love was cheap. No thank you to both.

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It was very cheap but good.

[Zankou.]

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Dope sucked. Brotherly Love was cheap. No thank you to both.

Aren't you white?

None of these films sucked and yes they had low budgets but they still had a kind of quality that made them entertaining and gut-wretching.

[rosone1]

I watched Brotherly Love yesterday.First time I didn't fall asleep on a movie in a while.The acting was great minus Macy Gray and Quincy Brown, who were still decent in their roles.Great twist and the Philly music they used >>>