09/17/2021
Wow! Yet another amazing accomplishment for Karen! Thank you to all the fans for supporting! Thank you to my cast and crew for helping to create this timeless classic. Thank you to all of my distribution partners for seeing my vision. A little over a year ago, when I wrote that now infamous name on the title page of the script, I knew I had written something special. Something that would spark plenty of controversy, start conversations and receive mixed reviews from fans and critics alike. Art is subjective, after all. I was well aware it would be a strange, eclectic, blended genre of a film, because I am a strange, eclectic, blended genre of a person. 🤓I never sought critical acclaim. I sought to help effect change. I intentionally choose not to pull punches or discuss racism from a safe place. Not only that, but I talked about it in real time, at your front door, in your face, the kind of overt racism we currently witness in day to day life, on the news and all over social media. I knew it would make a lot of people uncomfortable, and I would be dragged, loved, hated, praised etc... Didn't care. I wanted to get in some good trouble. This film had to be done, and this statement needed to be made. For that, I had no problem being a provocateur for change. Thank you George, Breonna and Ahmaud for inspiring me to weaponize my art. I am extremely grateful and overwhelmed with joy at the success of Karen. Not bad for a low budget, black independent film, shot in 12 days, during the height of pandemic and subsequently released with zero marketing budget. To some of my harsher critics I would simply say, over 100 million unique online impressions, number one indie movie on numerous platforms, everyone is talking about it, I believe I hit my mark (drops mic, goes back to writing next script.) 🤓🙏🏼🚀🔥🎥🎉🎞💯✊🏼
~ via @officialcokedaniels
Wow! Yet another amazing accomplishment for Karen! Thank you to all the fans for supporting! Thank you to my cast and crew for helping to create this timeless classic. Thank you to all of my distribution partners for seeing my vision. A little over a year ago, when I wrote that now infamous name on the title page of the script, I knew I had written something special. Something that would spark plenty of controversy, start conversations and receive mixed reviews from fans and critics alike. Art is subjective, after all. I was well aware it would be a strange, eclectic, blended genre of a film, because I am a strange, eclectic, blended genre of a person. 🤓I never sought critical acclaim. I sought to help effect change. I intentionally choose not to pull punches or discuss racism from a safe place. Not only that, but I talked about it in real time, at your front door, in your face, the kind of overt racism we currently witness in day to day life, on the news and all over social media. I knew it would make a lot of people uncomfortable, and I would be dragged, loved, hated, praised etc... Didn't care. I wanted to get in some good trouble. This film had to be done, and this statement needed to be made. For that, I had no problem being a provocateur for change. Thank you George, Breonna and Ahmaud for inspiring me to weaponize my art. I am extremely grateful and overwhelmed with joy at the success of Karen. Not bad for a low budget, black independent film, shot in 12 days, during the height of pandemic and subsequently released with zero marketing budget. To some of my harsher critics I would simply say, over 100 million unique online impressions, number one indie movie on numerous platforms, everyone is talking about it, I believe I hit my mark (drops mic, goes back to writing next script.) 🤓🙏🏼🚀🔥🎥🎉🎞💯✊🏼
~ via @officialcokedaniels
