Masters of the Air with Dee Rees

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Writer/Director Dee Rees is an alumna of New York University's graduate film program and a Sundance Screenwriting & Directing Lab Fellow. In 2018, Dee became the first Black woman nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for her highly-acclaimed film Mudbound (2017). Dee's Emmy-Award winning HBO film Bessie (2015) starred Queen Latifah as the legendary American Blues singer and was nominated for a total of twelve Emmy Awards, including Dee's individual nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special. Bessie was also nominated for four Critics' Choice Awards and Dee was the recipient of the 2016 Director's Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Miniseries as well as the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie. This week, Tyler and Dee get into the inner workings of telling Black stories and specifically bringing the Tuskegee Airmen to the screen through her unique lens. Support this podcast on patreon at patreon.com/PassTheMic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	dynamic voices for a diverse church this is pass the mic
0:10.8	well greetings and god bless welcome to another episode of Past the Mike,
0:14.8	dynamic voices for a diverse church, powered by the Witness, a black Christian collective.
0:19.5	I am your host Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at
0:23.0	Burns Clan please follow at your own risk and as you can probably hear I am not in a
0:29.7	traditional studio because P.T.M. is on the move this week. We are on location and the truth
0:36.4	of the matter is we are typically on the move multiple weeks. We just make time for you because we care about you.
0:44.0	Dr. Tisbee is off changing the world. I am trying to teach and preach and speak and I'm
0:49.8	actually don't tell anybody but I'm actually on location at the site of the Joy and Justice Conference 2024.
1:00.0	I'm literally on location right now getting ready to record a promo video. I stopped what
1:04.7	I was doing to literally come over to my phone and record a voice memo and it's not
1:09.7	going to be great audio and Bo's going to roll his eyes at me. But I'm so excited to bring this
1:14.7	particular conversation to you and to also leak to you that we are having a joy in justice
1:19.4	2024. Okay, you'll have to wait a couple of weeks to hear more about that, but buckle up.
1:26.3	It's going to be absolutely incredible.
1:28.5	And if you love to join justice conference 2023, I believe you will also love joining Justice Conference
1:34.3	2024 but back to today's episode I had the unique privilege of having a
1:40.8	conversation with a brilliant black woman director who is pioneering and
1:45.4	trailblazing in this concept of what it means to tell black stories.
1:49.9	I've been watching this series on Apple TV Plus called Masters of the Air.
1:55.0	And I was watching this series on the basically
1:59.0	Air Force in World War II simply because I saw in the trailer a glimpse
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