Writer and director Travon Free, who won the 2021 Oscar for Best Live-Action Short with “Two Distant Strangers”, makes an in-studio appearance on Tuesday’s “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”.
Free tells DeGeneres how he came up with the idea for the short film while protesting last year for the wrongful death of George Floyd, who was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin a year ago today, and how he wrote the script in five days.
He describes his film as being about “a Black man trying to get home to his dog,” adding that while the plot “sounds simple, you can complicate that in many ways when you’re telling a story about America.” RELATED: Director Travon Free Calls Diddy To Celebrate After ‘Two Distant Strangers’ Oscar Win “So he runs into a cop
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