Breaking Baz at TIFF: ’American Fiction’s Debut Filmmaker Cord Jefferson Donated A Kidney To His Father – And Made One Of The Year’s Best Movies
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Cord Jefferson has, in recent years, made two life-changing decisions. In 2008, he donated a kidney to his father. “That was easy,” he said. “That was one of the easiest decisions I ever made.
I mean, he gave me life. I feel like the kidney’s half his,” the 41-year-old declared. A few years later, Jefferson read novelist Percival Everett’s book Erasure.
Then he adapted it for the big screen and called it American Fiction. The project became his feature film directorial debut.
The searingly provocative movie had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and has emerged as one of the best films of the year, joining the handful of movies that have so far galvanized the fall festivals at Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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