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Blu-ray Contest: Dear White People<\/a><\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

February 1, 2015<\/p>\n

\"Dear<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Movie Lover:<\/strong> If you\u2019re looking for a comedy that\u2019s fresh, smart and \u201cnon-stop fun\u201d (Rolling Stone), you\u2019ve found it! Dear White People<\/strong> arrives on Digital HD and On Demand January 20th and follows on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD) and DVD (plus Digital) on February 3rd<\/strong> from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.<\/p>\n

Starring Tyler James Williams<\/strong> (TV\u2019s \u201cEverybody Hates Chris,\u201d AMC\u2019s \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d), Tessa Thompson<\/strong> (Selma, For Colored Girls), Kyle Gallner<\/strong> (American Sniper, A Nightmare on Elm Street), Teyonah Parris<\/strong> (TV\u2019s \u201cMad Men,\u201d They Came Together) Brandon Bell<\/strong> (TV\u2019s \u201cHollywood Heights,\u201d TV\u2019s \u201cSwitched at Birth\u201d), Malcolm Barrett<\/strong> (Peeples, The Hurt Locker) and Dennis Haysbert<\/strong> (TV\u2019s \u201c24,\u201d TV\u2019s \u201cThe Unit\u201d), the film was the winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival\u2019s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent. The critically acclaimed, box-office success, Dear White People is the feature film debut from writer\/director Justin Simien<\/strong>, and earned him a spot on Variety\u2019s annual \u201c10 Directors to Watch\u201d list.<\/p>\n

\"Dear<\/a><\/p>\n

Loosely based on Simien\u2019s own experiences as an undergraduate at a predominantly white university, Dear White People is \u201ca smart, hilarious satire of the Obama age\u201d (Indiewire) and is \u201cthe very definition of a conversation-starter\u201d (Los Angeles Times). The provocative subject matter found a voice on Twitter when Simien launched a guerilla marketing campaign and set up a @DearWhitePeople Twitter feed that actually served as a voice for his main character in the film, Sam White. With word of mouth and social media, the guerilla marketing campaign went viral with a concept trailer on YouTube which eventually led the film to be successfully crowdfunded on Indiegogo.<\/p>\n

\"Dear<\/a><\/p>\n

A hilarious and thought-provoking satire about race relations, Dear White People is the story of an eclectic group of black students trying to navigate a predominantly white Ivy League school. Dealing with the college\u2019s traditions and cliques is hard enough. But after a sequence of events including a controversial student election, an out-of-control party and the arrival of a reality TV producer, once-quiet Winchester University becomes a hotbed of conflict.<\/p>\n