In July 2011, I told you about Byron Hurt's online fundraising campaign to complete his latest project, Soul Food Junkies. The filmmaker, best known for his documentary, Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes, was successful with the campaign and now, “Soul Food Junkies” is headed to PBS. It will be broadcast nationally on PBS's Independent Lens on January 14, 2013. At a panel discussion that followed a pre-screening of the 65-minute film, Mr. Hurt was asked whether he was concerned about depicting black people as problem laden. He responded that while some people worried he was going to denigrate black people (a curious response, I think, to a filmmaker who pretty responsible from what I have seen so far...) he was striving to show African-Americans in all “their complexity and humanity.”
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