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How do we get here?
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The Road to Queen Sugar.
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As I'll call it, 94 years of television and only one show.
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Is 7 seasons all directed by women with Ava and Oprah did?
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Was change these women's lives?
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Because we get to do what we were born to do.
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And now my whole life is different.
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Ava Duvernay and Oprah Winfrey.
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Three are fearless leaders.
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Who decided to hire female directors for this series?
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And it allowed directors who had not had the opportunity to direct.
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Television before.
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Have an entree.
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And to the industry before.
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Clean sugar.
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I think I had.
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2.
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Female directors in my career, somebody's gonna give you a shot.
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At least one shot. I've been acting like I said since I was 18 years old. It's almost 30 years.
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I had one woman who directed me.
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In my life, on television and film.
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And that one woman was Ava Duvernay.
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That's the last thing. Legacy.
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The show that I've been on for seven years.
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So many women.
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Out as female as just directors, not female directors as directors.
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I like my television shows to look like the street that I walk down.
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Think that this class of directors.
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That have unearthed cream sugar.
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Will cater to a bevy of movies and TV shows that do just that.
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Queen Sugar was a project that was presented to me by Oprah Winfrey. I read the book and I thought it was a gorgeous telling of black farming community, black farmers.
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Natalie Bozell, the author, was generous enough and saying I know the book is.
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Probably just a foundation. Go ahead, expand it however you.
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Want I had a good time playing with the world that.
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She created but then creating story on top of it.
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That could last for seven seasons.
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A lot of those things came from wings that Oprah gave me when she gave me the book.
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And not only gave me the book.
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Gave me the opportunity to make it.
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To control it, to create it, to do it in the way that I wanted.
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Being the creator of Queen Sugar was the first time that I got to.
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Higher I just knew that I wanted to.
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Bring in women directors Who?
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Perhaps hadn't done television before, I remember asking Open the question Can I do this?
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And she said, can we do this? But thank you on the network, so I think you would be.
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Who else would say no? Paul Garnes? Cheryl Miller?
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For supporting from from the.
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Peter Roth and team.
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Reporting from the studio and so all of the key players kind of like the idea of. Let's give it a try.
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First reaction, Hearing that.
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Ava and Oprah were all.
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Female directing team.
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It made sense.
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And it was revolutionary.
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I was doing everything I could to.
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Direct, even with my background, even with.
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Accolades and wards. I just couldn't get a break.
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I had directed two feature films, 2 television movies.
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And I could not get.
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A television agent, I could not get a meeting.
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Not a meeting. It's not that I got a meeting. I didn't get the job. I couldn't get the meetings.
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I shadowed after I directed films, not just.
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Four, I would show up in people to know my first.
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Understand my last name. They didn't know direct.
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Film they could careless.
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CLA. I did a BA and an MFA in directing.
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And then I got pregnant. And my sort of big industry career path.
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Shifted as it does.
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For a lot of women.
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I had a career for about 15 years of direct.
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In the Philippines.
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But when I immigrated.
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I had to start from.
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Scratch everyone told me.
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I couldn't do it and.
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To call them when I got my first episode.
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But no one was giving me the first episode until Ava.
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Gave me that call and I got to be a director on Season 4.It was such a fun.
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Choosing.
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The directors because there was number, rhyme or reason to the selection other than I liked.
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Their work Oregon, Their verve or their vibe? Some legends who had.
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Seen their work wouldn't.
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Inspired me Cat Candler, Eduardo Guerrero Cheryl Dunya as well.
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Want to watch this woman's work or?
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You know what? I've seen her talk about what she wants to do, and she's been.
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Working as AD but.
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That's a director right there. Like, give her an episode or, you know, I've seen this woman's.
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Start as a PA and work.
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Harder than anybody on.
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Year after year after year, the.
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She's ready. Let her do it. I'd been an indie filmmaker for about 15 years.
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Before Ava called me and then Ava called one day and said.
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Say hey, you've been ready.
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I made a couple of feature films.
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And Ava Duvernay slipped into my DMS on Twitter.
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And that was the beginning of what I like to call being in the rocket ship.
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My e-mail and there's an e-mail there that says.
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Hi Carmen, Ava Duvernay here. I've seen your work and I'm very serious about hiring you to direct season.
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Four When can we meet?
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And I was like.
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Is that really her?
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And then one day she called and said.
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Screw them. Would you like to direct an episode of Queen Sugar? And I, of course, said yes.
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And she was like, I want you to direct Queen Sugar.
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And I got quiet Causeway I had to.
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Had to catch my breath, Ava. Seeing.
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Something bigger, something more possible and taking a chance on.
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On me.
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Come join us. I recognize you as the talent that you are. I mean, that made me cry, and I felt like there was a place where I could belong and spread my wings.I'm really grateful, you know.
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Ava changed my whole life.
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And literally one second.
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When I got that call, I thought I was going to lose my mind.
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It really changed my whole life.
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My dreams come alive.
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So much of our industry is safeguarded against giving people.
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At chance, Not a chance to Pennsylvania or be your assistant like.
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The big chance?
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My film professor, Doctor Ramos. Rachel Ramos.
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She knew Abel from back in the day and was like, I'm gonna hit this lady up. I brought her to.
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Where I introduced her to Shooter.
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Sierra Gaudet. I looked there.
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In front of these people at the table.
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I'm the one you need and I'm gonna work on your movie. So what I gotta do?
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She wasn't trying to be anything other than who she was. She was.
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Completely authentic.
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And she was from Alabama. We were about to shoot someone.
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Over and do a couple days worked way up that crew. I turn around. She's on my.
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Next crew and always going back and forth to Queen Sugar. So she started as just a.
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Regular Pennsylvania production assistant who does anything that's needed.
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And while Ava was here doing the first two episodes, she was like, hey.
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Start shooting some stuff to work your way up.
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Tina overheard and she was like, I'll help you.
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Give me the script. You get it. Like you got my time, I'm free.
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I'm free for you. For you.
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It's free and we did it, and it was beautiful. And little by little she rises up.
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And finally, I said, You know.
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It's your time. She calls me and she.
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He's like I just.
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Just called to tell you that you know we're going to be able to start back shooting Queen Sugar.
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You know there was only one spot left.
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Long, dramatic pause. And I'm.
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Sitting on the other side of the phone like.
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Oh my God, I cannot believe she's gonna break my heart like this.
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And she goes.
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And I picked you. I got flown out to do my 3.
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Episodes of Queen Sugar. Two days before my 29th birthday, she.
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So hard. And now I've just watched her, like, take off.
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I love you so much.
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Uh-oh. That's what makes it really special for me is like, you know, people that saw me as a PA running around to.
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Them really just embracing me like as a director.
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Somebody that has a vision and an opportunity.
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All of it, I would absolutely.
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Paid off because now I got 12 episodes under my belt. I got some more coming up *** here. What you got? What you talking with your money? So she's like, I got, I got, I did the big splurge. She bought these Jet skis.She deserves it. I hope she jet skis to her heart's content.Was.
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Rising as it rogressed.
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Hear about the milestone work that the.
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Doing in the area of justice opportunity.
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It legitimized me in the eyes of the.
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And as a director.
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Now I have represent.
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Now I have an agent and manager and.
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All this beautiful.
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Started with the seed of being a director on Queen.
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Having that.
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I have not stopped.
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In television, it's been a year and a half I've done.
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Queen Sugar I've been directing non-stop. Incredibly joyful and happy to.
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Be able to work steadily in what I love to.
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What I'm good at I went from my first episode.
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Where Ava gave me a chance on Queen Sugar.
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All the meetings that I couldn't get with the.
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Well, I'm just still going, you know. I've done a dozen more.
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So many people that have gone on to do.
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Our alum is a who's who.
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So unique about working on a show like Queen Sugar where.
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All the directors are women. You don't have to talk about being a woman director.
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You're just a director. You need to get to talk about the craft and talk about shot lists.
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Now we just get to direct.
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And we're all really good directors too. That we just.
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Didn't have that opportunity before Ava Oprah.
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There were so many people and so many directors who are far more talented than me.
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Who should have gotten the phone call?
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From someone like Ava many years prior. I just happened to land in a moment.
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Where Ava and Oprah decided to do this extraordinary thing, there is an army.
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Soul brothers and sisters.
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Who are ready to hear your call so that.
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For humanity, That's why I'm really, really grateful.
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I'm really grateful to her.
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You can't stop us now.
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Too many?
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42 women who are.
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She got a piece of land.
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She divided it up.
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She gave us all a little peace.
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I have to also help other.
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You know, farmers who are struggling with their land or?
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My land, my hope and dream for the industry is.
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What I felt on the set of Queen Sugar.
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How safe and supported?
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The family camaraderie and how the crew welcomed a female director.
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I want that for every set.
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I just want to help build that road farther.
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And include more people.
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It's really necessary that people continue to follow suit. It's a real call to action that I think.
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Must continue. Will continue.
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And it'll continue with that.
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Thank you so much.
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Queen Sugar revolutionized the television industry.
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Committing to exclusively hiring women directly, hiring 42 women directly.
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We're just so grateful, so humbled.
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So overwhelmed with the opportunity.
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Did it for seven years.
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I'm mayor of the City of New Orleans. Do declare July.
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Ask Queen Sugar down.The occasion.
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Television series that not only honors the.
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Now it's odd if you have.
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And you're not hiring women on your directorial team?
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And that's been a sea change.
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From seven seasons ago, when we began.
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I feel like I can see.
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Very short time, less than a decade.
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A real revolution of thought and the fact that you will be questioned in your.
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Expected to have a woman on your team. The importance of this show in terms of the.
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The industry is changed.
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Point blank, it not only changed our lives, but a lot of people in the.
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Mature started to.
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No excuses.
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Female directors are out there.
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Seven seasons later, 42.
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Hopefully there's a new Hollywood.
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What Ava did for me.
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Just like.
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Compared to this huge.
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Avalanche not just for all 42 directors, but all these.
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And writers and.
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Potential, you know.
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It's an avalanche and I just can't even imagine what it's.
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You know the board loans, our show was all about family. It was.
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The bedrock of the show. The heart of the show is.
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The family bond.
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It's a family bond, It's the community bond.
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And the way the family fits.
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Within that and I think that our crew and our directorial team really simplified that as a.
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As well.
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Queen Sugar family.
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And if you imagine that every crew member played their part in that way, then you see how these directors were.
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In a way where they could just.
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Jobs, everything's functioning, the lighting, everything's working well, and they could just.
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On the beauty and not the roblems.
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All right, this is the shot of the city.
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Our first ad, Desiree just called.
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Wonderful. It was like a blessing and just.
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