From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

I didn't pitch a movie. I told her, I just know that this man changed my life,

and I know that he can change the life of many other people. And for that, I just need the time

to go through everything and to find a white way to tell that story.

Haitian-born director Raul Peck long dreamed of making a film about his literary hero,

writer and activist James Baldwin. Yet when he finally approached the late author's sister to get the rights to do it,

he still had no clear vision of how he would tackle his subject. A decade later, his documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is an Oscar contention, and Peck is finding

Baldwin's words more relevant than ever.

He tells us about his brief stint as Haiti's Minister of Culture and explains why he's not

convinced that this year's awards nominations mean the end of Oscars so white.

But first on the news banter, Disney's Robert Iger backs out of a White House gathering

as Hollywood grapples with the advent of Trump.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my buddy in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So Hollywood is feeling the impact of the Trump administration like the rest of the world in its own way.

Bob Iger, the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, we are told, is not going to attend a White House meeting of industry leaders.

I know when I say industry leaders. I don't mean the entertainment industry. I mean business leaders.

This comes as attendance of anything at the White House right now is probably seen as an implicit endorsement.

And this refugee ban, which applies to several countries, you know,

as has been noted, countries where Trump has no business interests, this ban is, you know, has been

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