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I Believed

By Sade|2015-08-22T08:59:49+00:00August 22nd, 2015|Poetry, Thoughts|0 Comments

I’m not the greatest poet, in fact I’d go as far to say I don’t read a lot of poetry. However, I started writing this poem last year in response to an article by New York Times journalist Alessandra Stanley, in which she called Shonda Rimes an angry black woman and Viola Davis “less classically beautiful.” Viola Davis eloquent response says it all. I’m glad that Shonda Rhimes saw me and said “Why not?” That’s what makes her a visionary. That’s what makes her iconic. I think that beauty is subjective. I’ve heard that statement [less classically beautiful] my entire life. Being a dark-skinned black woman, you heard it from the womb. And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you. Now … it worked when I was younger. It no longer works for me now. It’s about teaching a culture how to treat you. Because [...]

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AMJ: Beginning With the Script

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00August 22nd, 2015|A Mother's Journey, Film, Thoughts|0 Comments

I’m not one for keeping a diary, so I’m writing the next series of blog pieces on the making of A Mother’s Journey with cracked rose tinted glasses. Maybe someone else can learn from my mistakes and also from my experience. Weeks have gone by, so the pain coupled with high anxiety have all but disappeared, leaving me with the feeling that the experience wasn’t as bad as I remember it. The Book I guess the first question to answer for my fan of one, is why this story/film? Well my journey into filmmaking started with my desire to see Imagine This on the big screen. Some might say it’s egotistical of me to want to see my own novel adapted into a film, but I feel it’s a story worth telling as a film. But then I would say that because I wrote the book. Anyway to cut [...]

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Post has begun on the new film

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00June 23rd, 2015|Film, Self promotion, Thoughts|0 Comments

I've not been dedicated in keeping this blog up to date. Not because I've particularly been lazy, but mainly because I've been so busy, first with pre-production, then with filming and then with returning everything and finally with getting things back on an even keel. Today or I should say yesterday, seeing as it's 1am; I hit another milestone. YAY. I handed over the precious cargo that is my raw footage, to the editor. OMG, on one level I feel like a surrogate mother who has carried and nurtured a baby for nine months only to hand the child over to another mother once it has entered this world. Trying to find a suitable editor was a tricky process, I met five wonderful candidates who were willing to work on A Mother's Journey for very little pay and I really couldn't choose between them. Rather than flip a coin, it actually came [...]

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A Mother’s Journey

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00April 16th, 2015|Film, Thoughts|0 Comments

Those of you who are on my email list or who have been on my website, Facebook page or read my Twitter feed, will know by now that I’m trying to make my second short film called Mother. Heads up here, there’s a likelihood we’ll be changing the title to “A Mother’s Journey,” which I think is a tad more descriptive. Anyway if you haven’t seen any of the tweets, emails or Facebook posts soliciting your goodwill; the skinny is that, I’m continuing the story of Lola Ogunwole, the protagonist from my award winning book Imagine This. Lola is a character that seemed to linger with readers and they wanted to know what happened to her. I jokingly said I’d be writing a sequel, which in theory I have, just not as a book. :-) I’m sure most of you have figured out by now that, A Mother’s Journey is [...]