Important Concept

Something I think that the history of black filmmakers have in common with any other filmmakers is the internal struggle to make independent films with the freedom to say what you want, how you want it, or to "sell out" and take a job in the Hollywood system because they are paying and offering you a job. However, I think this struggle made it even more difficult for the African American cinema to really get its voice heard because Hollywood was causing them to fall short when it came to the number of people needed to make the movie. I think especially since few people in the black film community had the opportunity to go to film school at that time, the number of trained people in the community was even lower.