Steve McQueen is dedicating his newest films to George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. On Wednesday, as part of the Cannes Film Festival lineup announcement, it was revealed the “Widows” and “12 Years A Slave” director will have two films premiering this year.
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and elsewhere. ‘If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.’ Black lives matter,” he said, according to Deadline. The two films are part of a five-film anthology series called “Small Axe”
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