{"id":152082,"date":"2021-04-26T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T22:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=152082"},"modified":"2021-04-27T19:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T23:30:43","slug":"travon-free-martin-desmond-roe-win-oscar-for-short-film-two-distant-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/travon-free-martin-desmond-roe-win-oscar-for-short-film-two-distant-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Travon Free &#038; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for Short Film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Co-directors <strong>Travon Free <\/strong>&amp;<strong> Martin Desmond Roe<\/strong> Win Oscar for Short Film \u2018<strong>Two Distant Strangers\u2019<\/strong> and make history in the process!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When asked by Blackfilm.com press, right after they accepted their historic Oscar win, if they would collaborate again in the future, the co-directors had this to say:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n\t       <div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <div class=\"mace-youtube\" data-mace-video=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1l63ySMhGmo?showinfo=0&#038;rel=1&#038;ytp-pause-overlay=1&#038;autoplay=1&#038;enablejsapi=1\" data-mace-video-thumb=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/1l63ySMhGmo\/hqdefault.jpg\"><div class=\"mace-play-button\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81447229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Two Distant Strangers,&#8221;<\/a> <\/strong>about a young black man caught in a recurring deadly encounter with a police officer that forces him to re-live the same awful day over and over again, took home an Oscar for the best live-action short film on Sunday, beating out \u201cFeeling Through,\u201d \u201cThe Letter Room,\u201d The Present,\u201d and \u201cWhite Eye. Free, who also wrote the screenplay, made history as the first Black filmmaker to win the Oscar for live-action short film.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Two Distant Strangers&#8221; was inspired by the world\u2019s response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and the cyclical nature of reliving the worst version of Groundhog\u2019s day imaginable. While the Netflix film was well-received, there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2021-04-19\/them-amazon-two-distant-strangers-netflix-debate\">some controversy<\/a> from critics citing the repetitive portrayal of anti-Black violence was \u201cmore triggering than thought-provoking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_2682-1024x560.jpg\" alt=\"Travon Free &amp; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for Short Film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-152217\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The short film excelled in truncating an epidemic into a 32min work of art that tells a hugely consequential [and relevant] story without falling too deep into being trauma porn and not being too shallow that it fails to convey what lies at the core &#8211; <strong>the resilience of what it means to be black in America.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free had this to say in his powerful acceptance speech about police killings and indifference to Black pain, as he and Roe accepted the award:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Today the police will kill three people. And tomorrow the police will kill three people and the day after that, the police will kill three people because on average, the police in America every day kill three people, which amounts to about 1,000 people a year and those people happen to disproportionately be Black people. James Baldwin once said the most despicable thing a people can be is indifferent to other people&#8217;s pain. I ask that you not be indifferent. Please, don&#8217;t be indifferent to our pain.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/21066thumb-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-152213\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KDTrey5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kevin Durant<\/a> and Van Lathan are listed as executive producers, and Jesse Williams &#8212; a producer, on IMDB. Durant tweeted his excitement about the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-26-at-12.27.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-152083\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/04\/the-black-list-2021-oscars-red-carpet-fashion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/04\/oscars-2021-list-of-black-winners-upsets-funniest-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oscars 2021 List of Black Winners, Upsets &amp; Funniest Moment<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> Travon Free &amp; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for Short Film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019 Travon Free &amp; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for Short Film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019 <\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-directors Travon Free &amp; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for Short Film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019 and make history in the process! When asked by Blackfilm.com press, right after they accepted their historic Oscar win, if they would collaborate again in the future, the co-directors had this to say: &#8220;Two Distant Strangers,&#8221; about a young black [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/travon-free-martin-desmond-roe-win-oscar-for-short-film-two-distant-strangers\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":152217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,18,143,23],"tags":[32223,2071,33458,33459,3806,33455,33457,33456,33454],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-152082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-interviews","9":"category-read","10":"category-watch","11":"tag-93rd-academy-awards","12":"tag-black-film","13":"tag-black-in-america","14":"tag-black-live-action-short-films","15":"tag-blackfilm","16":"tag-martin-desmond-roe","17":"tag-oscar-winner-martin-desmond-roe","18":"tag-oscar-winner-travon-free","19":"tag-travon-free"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Travon Free &amp; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for Short Film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019 - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Travon Free &amp; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for for the best live-action short film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019 at the 93rd Academy Awards\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/travon-free-martin-desmond-roe-win-oscar-for-short-film-two-distant-strangers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Travon Free &amp; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for Short Film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Travon Free &amp; Martin Desmond Roe Win Oscar for for the best live-action short film \u2018Two Distant Strangers\u2019 at the 93rd Academy Awards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/travon-free-martin-desmond-roe-win-oscar-for-short-film-two-distant-strangers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"blackfilm.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blackfilm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-26T22:28:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-27T23:30:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_2682-e1619565028178.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1125\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"514\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ellen J. 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