“It’s important for me as a Black woman to see more of us both in front of and behind the camera”: writer-director cgpeoples tells AnOther
tells the story of Turquoise, a job-juggling single mother and former beauty pageant queen whose dream is for her 14-year-old daughter to wear the crown she once wore and seize the opportunities that come with it, as she couldn’t.
SM: One of my favourite things about the film is the space you allow to showcase the experience of a Black woman. We get to see a few different sides to Turquoise, she’s not just a struggling mother with two jobs, you also celebrate the fun and tender sides of her relationship with her daughter, her mother and the men in her life. How important was it for you to show that?
CGP: Yes, I think that’s what makes the film so relatable. Many of us have a story that we can connect it to in which our parents wanted us to have a better life. Growing up – my mother was single for much of my life – I think a big part of what inspired me as well is that as a kid, I was watching her trying to find a way to reconcile her own dreams while raising children and wanting her own children to have a better future, so I think that was my advantage point initially.
CGP: Juneteenth has always been second nature to me, it was so much a part of the fabric of my life. Just for anyone who is unfamiliar, Juneteenth commemorates the day enslaved people in Texas found out that they were free. Sadly, that was almost two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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