Malcolm D. Lee opens up about some of the challenges Black filmmakers face.
Like it or not, Bong Joon Ho's Parasite will go down in history as a winner. It became the first South Korean film to receive Academy Award nominations, the first non-English language film to win Best Picture, and the first non-English language film to win the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble, ie Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Impressive. And yet some folks are deriding the film and its success on a number of unfounded grounds, like it being a cause of "the destruction of America" (which is hilarious in a number …