JoeyMcFarland turned heads on the Emancipation red carpet while showing off the photograph that inspired the film
” that McFarland had previously began to brand his collection on Instagram as #McFarlandCollection as soon as “Emancipation” wrapped.that “so many people look at [the photo of Peter] and use it as an emblem of slavery,” but he was really a “human being.” He explained that the photograph served as a “deep dive” as he wondered, “What is his story? Who are his family? What happened to him?”
“I hired a great deal of historians; we went deep into the archives and found his identity, we found his backstory, we pieced it together,” he shared.Courtney B. Vance Discusses His Emotional Journey Creating Powerful New Docuseries ‘One Thousand Years Of Slavery’ McFarland, who, during the event, described himself as a “filmmaker, writer, amateur historian and passionate curator of truth,” continued to explain how he sees Peter, along with the other subjects in his collected images, as heroes and warriors rather than victims.
“We don’t need to ignore or hide or cover up the past. We need to protect it. We need to protect those scars, those wounds; we need to have them on full display so we don’t make the same mistakes again,” he said. “We need to curate the stories, the photographs, the history before it’s lost forever. That’s part of my mission.”
This isn’t the first time that McFarland has generated headlines. In the past, he was entangled in the 1MDB embezzlement scandal, in which “billions were siphoned from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund by Malaysian businessman Jho Low,” as perincluding McFarland who was befriended by Low to launch Red Granite Productions with Riza Aziz and produce “The Wolf of Wall Street”. The film was
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