{"id":6645,"date":"2023-03-04T23:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T23:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2023-04-07T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:37:18","slug":"indiewire-nanny-director-3-4-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/indiewire-nanny-director-3-4-23\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nanny\u2019 Director Nikyatu Jusu Responds to Indie Spirits Misspelling Her Name on Someone to Watch Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018Nanny\u2019 Director Nikyatu Jusu Responds to Indie Spirits Misspelling Her Name on Someone to Watch Award: <\/h1>\n

Nikyatu Jusu won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2022 for her feature filmmaking debut \u201cNanny,\u201d which was distributed by Amazon Studios last fall, but her presence has otherwise been mostly absent from the 2022-2023 awards circuit, despite the film\u2019s acclaim and high-profile release. During Saturday afternoon\u2019s Film Independent Spirit Awards, Jusu accepted the Someone to Watch Award \u2014 but her name was, in fact, spelled incorrectly on the trophy. Jusu called it out during the ceremony and then again backstage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited! Even though you misspelled my name,\u201d Jusu said upon accepting the prize in the tent in Santa Monica. But backstage in the press tent, Jusu also called out the overall omissions for women and people of color she feels pervade this awards season, and also pointed out how the cycle of awards campaigning feels largely irrelevant to her as an artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Oscars are not my center, but because of this career path, it\u2019s forced on us as a barometer of excellence,\u201d Jusu said to the press corps backstage, after also acknowledging how her name was misspelled on the Someone to Watch award she received.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very lonely, especially when you are tokenized,\u201d she said of the awards season campaign path. She overall described filmmaking in general as a \u201clonely trajectory\u201d backstage at the Independent Spirit Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Oscars pulls a lot of us out,\u201d she said, but added of her fellow nominees, \u201cSeeing all these amazing, brilliant innovators here is really inspiring. It reminds me I\u2019m not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Nanny\u2019 was a project I was kicking around for eight or nine years, and it was [my producing partner] Nikkia [Moulterie]\u2019s favorite of the ideas I had,\u201d Jusu told IndieWire last year. \u201cShe just always held my feet to the fire to revisit it. We started getting into all the labs simultaneously over the past couple of years and then it gained all this traction. It\u2019s a testament to the hurry-up-and wait aspect of this industry. You\u2019re constantly sprinting to these deadlines but the industry pays attention on its own time.\u201d<\/p>\n

View this article at IndieWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Nanny\u2019 Director Nikyatu Jusu Responds to Indie Spirits Misspelling Her Name on Someone to Watch Award: Nikyatu Jusu won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2022 for her feature filmmaking debut \u201cNanny,\u201d which was distributed by Amazon Studios last fall, but her presence has otherwise been mostly absent from the 2022-2023 awards circuit, despite the
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