When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries changing his behavior to survive a police interaction.Writer/Director: Cynthia KaoDP: Coope Groundhog Day for a Black Man: Directed by Cynthia Kao. With Matt Cordova, Celia Finkelstein, Marshall Givens, Burl Moseley. When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries to change his behavior in order to survive a police interaction. It’s also the premise of Groundhog Day for a Black Man, a similar four-minute short created and directed by a filmmaker named Cynthia Kao in 2016.And unproven claims that the Netflix film It’s not a copy, someone from Netflix screwed up. Netflix thought that NowThis created Groundhog Day for Black Man when really NowThis was just sharing Cynthia’s film. It’s also possible that NowThis screwed up by not remembering that this was Cynthia’s work and represented themselves to Netflix as the creators. The accusations come via a TikTok from Cynthia Koa, who created a short back in December 2016 released on YouTube called Groundhog Day for a Black Man. She lays the case that the Netflix short may have stolen the concept because of a link between her original video and NowThis, an online publication with big footprints on social media. Kao wrote and produced a 2016 short film called Groundhog Day For a Black Man, in which, as she explains, a “Black man relives the same day over and over and tries different methods to Released December 5th, 2016, 'Groundhog Day for a Black Man' stars Burl Moseley, Ryan Stanger, Celia Finkelstein, Matt Cordova The movie has a runtime of about 4 min, and received a user score of The film directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe uses a "Groundhog Day"-style premise to tell a powerful story about police violence against Black men Is Groundhog Day for a Black Man (2016) streaming on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Peacock, or 50+ other streaming services? Find out where you can buy, rent, or subscribe to a streaming service to watch it live or on-demand. Find the cheapest option or how to watch with a free trial. Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, and find streaming options for Groundhog Day for a Black Man. Explore cast details and learn more on Moviefone. Black Lives Matter; See You Yesterday (2019), Netflix film with a similar concept; Day Break (2006), television series about a black cop who is being framed for a murder and is caught in a time loop while trying to solve the case. Groundhog Day (1993) Woke, television series similar in content; 12:01 PM (1990), Oscar-nominated short similar in Groundhog Day for a Black Man is a parody of Groundhog Day. The director is counting on the audience already being familiar with Groundhog Day, which is why it references title and the Sunny & Cher song. It is not trying to steal the target audience of Groundhog Day so that Groundhog Day is less successful. What Two Distant Strangers and Groundhog Day for a Black Man do share is an unabashed debt to Groundhog Day. Danny Rubin, the writer of that 1993 film, said he was unaware of this recent controversy, and hadn’t seen either short. None of those things make any fucking sense lol I live in a shithole country called Croatia,i was at a big park last week with my 4 year old kid, im a reasonably big dude with a mohawk, shitty ripped shirt,army pants and a large juvenile record so i dont really look like your regular dude, there was a bunch of cops at the entrance since public gatherings are limited and we playfully teased Groundhog Day for a Black Man: Directed by Cynthia Kao. With Matt Cordova, Celia Finkelstein, Marshall Givens, Burl Moseley. When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries to change his behavior in order to survive a police interaction. In 2016, Cynthia Kao published "Groundhog Day for a Black Man", a four-minute short satirizing the experience of blacks people in the U.S. through a time-loo In a TikTok posted by director Cynthia Kao, the director talked about her four-minute short film titled "Groundhog Day for a Black Man," released in December 2016, in which a Black man relives the That film, which was written and co-directed by Travon Free, has been taken to task for its close similarities to the 2016 short film "Groundhog Day for a Black Man," which was created and Denn vor kurzem hatte ich noch den Oscar Gewinner 2021 für den besten Kurzfilm //TWO DISTANT STRANGERS gelobt und musste jetzt feststellen, dass dieser eins zu eins seine Story bei GROUNDHOG DAY FOR A BLACK MAN geklaut hat. Wie dreist kann man denn sein, dass man die Idee nimmt und den Film dann auch noch so plump bei den Oscars einreicht. 11K likes, 35 comments - movieshouse_k on January 29, 2024: "Groundhog Day For A Black Man - - - #movie #moments #bestmoments #films #cinema #netflix #warnerbros #
Articles and news, personal stories, interviews with experts.
Photos from events, contest for the best costume, videos from master classes.