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Southern Usa | Slavery
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Dramatic | 2016 | Nate
Sundance Film Category | 2017 | Nate
Best Motion Poster | 2017
Dramatic | 2016 | Nate
Best Diaspora Feature | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture | 2017
Outstanding Motion Picture | 2017
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | 2017 | Aja Naomi
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture Film | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture Film | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Color Grading Feature Film | 2017 | Steven J.
Best Movie Poster | 2017
Best Film Editing | 2017 | Steven
Best Performance in a Feature Film Supporting Teen Actor | 2017 | Kai
Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year | 2017 | Nate
Most Valuable Film of the Year | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in FirstTime Feature Film | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Actor Motion Picture | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Director Motion Picture | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Screenplay Motion Picture | 2017 | Nate
Outstanding Ensemble | 2017
Outstanding Breakthrough Performance Female | 2017 | Aja Naomi
Outstanding Score | 2017 | Henry
Best Actor | 2016 | Nate
Breakout Filmmaker of the Year | 2016 | Nate
Best Picture | 2016
Best Original Score Feature Film | 2016 | Henry
Best Film | 2016 | Nate
Best Film | 2016 | Nate
Best First Film | 2016
Best Picture | 2016
Budget 8,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 15,861,566 USD
The film was shot in 27 days.
The rebellion occurred in Southampton Co. VA. August 21- 23, 1831.
Nate Parker invested $100,000 of his own money into the film.
This movie deliberately shares its title with D.W. Griffith's 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation (1915). That film, an adaptation of Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1902-1905 pro-Klan novels The Leopard's Spots and The Clansman, was a runaway critical, commercial, and cultural success. It was also the subject of protests against its virulently racist view of African Americans. Historians see the movie as a major impetus for the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan and a concomitant rise in lynchings and other racist violence during the early part of the 1900s. Protesting the film's racist views was an early action for the then-young NAACP. Long into the twentieth century, mainstream cinema scholars continued to praise the film as a landmark technical achievement in the history of motion pictures, while minimizing or ignoring altogether its racist message. Spike Lee was so outraged that his NYU Film School professors taught The Birth of a Nation (1915) with no mention of its racist message or legacy that he made a student short film titled The Answer (1980) as a response. The film so offended many of his professors that Lee was nearly expelled from NYU. He was ultimately saved by a faculty vote.
The song in the teaser trailer is "Strange Fruit," recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The song, which was written in 1937 by poet, teacher, and activist Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym, Lewis Allan), was a protest against lynchings in general and specifically against the 1930 Marion, Indiana, lynching of Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp. "Strange Fruit," which became one of Holiday's signature songs, has also been recorded or sampled by many other well-known singers, including Nina Simone, Diana Ross, Tori Amos, Cassandra Wilson, and Ye.
"Nat Turner: [after Nat watches a horrific scene between a slave and slave owner and has to preach to the slaves] Brethren, I pray you'll sing to the Lord, a new song. Sing praise in assembly of the righteous. Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praise of God be on the mouths of the saints and a two-edged sword in their hand to execute vengeance on the demonic nations! And punishment on those peoples! To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fens of iron! To execute on them this written judgement! This honor have all his saints! PRAISE THE LORD! PRAISE THE LORD! SING TO HIM A NEW SONG! PRAISE THE LORD! PRAISE THE LORD!"
"Bridget: To watch a strong man broken down is a terrible thing."
