Julien Christian Lutz — better known as Director X and his signature music videos for Drake, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa, Usher and Justin Bieber — has his own name for Canada's annual advertising award shows:The Whities. "The room is unreasonably White.
Not like the majority. No, Taj and I are the only people who are Black. And these are our allies," Toronto-based Lutz tells The Hollywood Reporter about he and business partner Taj Critchlow attending Canadian commercial industry kudosfests.
But the video of George Floyd's death is also reshaping the Canadian entertainment industry — and Lutz and Critchlow's business plans — as a reckoning on race transforms cross-border film and TV production.
Read more on hollywoodreporter.com