Spotlight On: 10 Female Directors to Watch
by Audrey Callerstrom, Staff Writer
With this list I wanted to highlight female directors that were more toward the beginning of their careers.
Time
Directed by Garrett Bradley
Starring Fox Rich and family
Running time: 1 hour and 21 minutes
Unrated
by Audrey Callerstrom
Time is like a companion piece to 13th, Ava DuVernay’s Netflix documentary about the mass incarceration of people of color. Time focuses on Fox Richardson (who goes by Fox Rich and was born Sibil Fox), a wife and mother to six children living in Louisiana. It opens with black and white home video of Fox, young and pregnant with twins. She’s only twenty-two weeks, but don’t forget, there’s two in there – she lifts her shirt to show her belly. She smiles and wrinkles her nose. “We’ll be OK,” she says. Who is she talking to? She’s talking to her husband, Robert Richardson. At the time, Robert was charged and awaiting sentencing for armed robbery.
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