At this year’s Emmys, Lifetime is hoping voters drink up its Best TV Movie contender “Flint,” which chronicles the ongoing water crisis in that poisoned Michigan town. Starring Queen Latifah, who also produced the film, “Flint” tells the story of a local woman named Iza Banks who’s dealing with the town’s lead in the water supply. The Writers Guild Awards already rewarded the project for Barbara Stepansky‘s script based on the Time Magazine cover story “The Poisoning of an American City,” so might the Emmys follow suit?
SEEEmmys 2018 exclusive: Lifetime categories for ‘Cocaine Godmother,’ ‘Flint,’ ‘Project Runway,’ ‘UnREAL’ and more
Awards groups are suckers for these kinds of civilian activist projects, as they usually come from a place of passion and allow the performers to express a whole range of emotion. Think Julia Roberts winning an Oscar for investigating a similar story in “Erin Brockovich” (2000) or...
SEEEmmys 2018 exclusive: Lifetime categories for ‘Cocaine Godmother,’ ‘Flint,’ ‘Project Runway,’ ‘UnREAL’ and more
Awards groups are suckers for these kinds of civilian activist projects, as they usually come from a place of passion and allow the performers to express a whole range of emotion. Think Julia Roberts winning an Oscar for investigating a similar story in “Erin Brockovich” (2000) or...
- 6/19/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
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