Pariah

Dee Rees
United States, 2011

In Conversation

  • Jenni Olson

    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LGBTQ+ cinema.

  • Leila Weefur

    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Weefur is an educator at Stanford University, a founding member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic, and the guest curator of Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After “The Searchers.”

Vivid photography and a wonderful lead performance.

Andrew Barker, Variety
featuring

Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Aasha Davis, Pernell Walker,

In this poignantly relatable debut feature from Dee Rees (Bessie, Mudbound), Adepero Oduye stars as Alike, a Black butch teen navigating her senior year of high school. Not yet out to her parents, who are navigating their own drama, Alike lives a double life—as she looks for love, with the wise support of her best friend, Laura (Pernell Walker), and gets ready for her post–high school future. An accomplished coming-of-age drama of queer self-discovery. Named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2023.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Dee Rees
Cinematographer
  • Bradford Young
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 86 mins
Source
  • Universal Pictures

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