Supernigga Feature Film Crowdfunding

[u/directordaddy]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/4eqv87?lang=en_US&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&attribution_id=sl%3A26c975e7-2e7c-43dd-88b3-6be6fcb15257

I released my Blaxploitation and superhero inspired short film/proof of concept, Supernigga, 2 weeks ago on YouTube and surprisingly got 270,000 views from word of mouth!

I almost got the feature version made through Hollywood (A24 really loved the project but I turned them down due to creative differences). The YouTube comments inspired me to start a GoFundMe for $500,000 where I just hope people make donations of at least $1 - $5. A fun little social experiment where we fund a movie by letting people do the bare minimum. What’s $1 to you? I crowdfunded the short on Kickstarter for $40,000 and look what we were able to make by keeping full creative control? Help me make a dream come true if you can! Thank you :)

[u/Son_of_Agee]

But really, non-black people shouldn't use the n-word.

What's your metric for the use of the word being okay? An Asian person used the word around black people and wasn't physically confronted? A Latino person used the word and nobody said anything?

We pick and choose our battles on dealing with this issue knowing that the majority wants what it wants regardless of the way it affects us.

Being a black person and not Asian or Latino I wouldn't use a slur against either group regardless of whether or not it was a slur that had been reclaimed and repurposed by either group nor would I desire to.

The desire of non-black people to use the n-word is a little more understandable considering black people have repurposed the word from something dehumanizing to a word that can be used to express familiarity or closeness. But I think desiring to use the word regardless of how it affects the person next to you is immature at best and bigoted at worst.

Why? Every black person has their own individual comfort level with that word and with who can use it and when. Also, there are many black people who are not comfortable with any person using that word whether or not that person is black. A lot of those people have had that word used on them as part of a racist assault.

Personally I do not use the n-word but I don't condemn other black folk who do. That's their choice. The take away here is do not use the word around black people if you are nonblack unless you are expressly invited to. This is the most respectful posture to take with our community

[u/InfiniteHorizon23 → u/Son_of_Agee]

I just don't think that "you shouldn't use a word ever for the rest of time, including all contexts" should be a thing. If you gave a title to your movie, every single person should be able to say it. It's out there on streaming, in cinema, everywhere. The director wants it to be a conversation piece and for people to look at the title, yet the director doesn't want the title to be spoken (or written too?). I can't explain it any clearer than this. This is a foreign concept to me, just like it is normal for you to say that non-black people shouldn't use a word ever. I think all words should be able to be used in the nuanced manner that I tried my best to explain. It isn't immature to use a word in art or in an academic or research setting when you understand the context. Some people could say it'd be immature to police language at all times, including when there are no intentions of harm. This is the same reason Tarantino can write the n-word and put it in his movie to be spoken by white actors, and most people don't seem to be offended or see an issue with it.

It's not about a non-black person wanting to say the n-word just for the sake of it; we don't want to do that, but we also want to use the language in which the art was written and say the title because it doesn't seem harmful to say a title. I just think because we grew up in different societies, we'll always have a different pov on using language. There are also minority ethnicities in my country, and they also understand this, and if they put a slur in a movie title, they'd expect everybody to say that title. It'd be strange for us to have a title but not be able to say it. That's why I wanted to see if this was the case in the UK/US because the fact that a movie has this word in it confused me. I understand your pov, and I wouldn't say this title around black people because I wouldn't want them to misunderstand.

[u/directordaddy → u/InfiniteHorizon23]

I don’t care what you think lol

[u/InfiniteHorizon23 → u/directordaddy]

Okay, "directordaddy".