How the Criterion Collection Crops Out African-American Directors


"Linda Koulisis sensed an opportunity. It was September 2016, and Koulisis, a talent agent and former film producer based in Los Angeles, was in New York for a special screening of Charles Burnett’s 'To Sleep With Anger,' a critically admired but little-seen film she had worked on in 1990. Burnett, who is African-American, was also in town for the screening. And Koulisis, who is white, joined him for an appointment with the Criterion Collection, the producer of a revered DVD and Blu-ray line of classic and contemporary films that has existed in various forms since 1984. ..."
NY Times
Criterion Collection

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