Answer the following about the making of films directed by Dee Rees, for 10 points each.
[10m] This director’s imagery inspired Rachel Morrison’s Oscar-nominated cinematography for Rees’s film Mudbound. Isaac Hayes wrote an Oscar-winning funk theme for a 1971 blaxploitation film by this director.
ANSWER: Gordon Parks [or Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks] (The film is Shaft.)
[10e] Rees wrote the script for her debut film Pariah while interning for Spike Lee, her professor at this private university’s Tisch School of the Arts.
ANSWER: NYU [or New York University]
[10h] Bradford Young’s cinematography for Pariah was inspired by this director’s lectures on African art at Howard University. This Ethiopian director of the L.A. Rebellion movement explored oppression in films like Bush Mama and Sankofa.
ANSWER: Haile Gerima (“HIGH-lay geh-REE-mah”)
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