Noire author biography essay
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“Colored”, the untold story
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of Claudette Colvin
Written by Tania de Montaigne
directed by Stéphane Foenkinos
& Pierre-Alain Giraud
length : 35 minutes
language : French / English /Mandarin
form : Immersive installation
with augmented reality
development stage : production
budget : 200.000 US Dollars
*Video presentation: https://bit.ly/NoireARTrailer
Colored, the untold story
of Claudette Colvin
is the adaptation of the biographical essay
“Noire” written by Tania de Montaigne in 2015 and
published by Grasset.
It has already been the subject of a theatrical adaptation
by Stéphane Foenkin
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The Texas-born Attica Locke plays in both worlds; she is both a novelist and a screenwriter. She wrote the novels Black Water Rising, The Cutting Season, Pleasantville, and Bluebird, Bluebird, which won the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel. She was also a writer and producer for the Fox TV drama, “Empire.”
“I do think that rural noir is having a moment,” Locke says. “For me, being someone who watches a lot of crime on TV — like on ‘Dateline’ and ‘20/20’— those stories are always happening in small towns.”
Locke’s novel Black Water Rising, published in 2009, is woven with political deceit and complexity. Her fiction explores the psychology of murderers and criminals.
“What I love that stories about crime offer us is the ways in which our larger ideological points of view — our larger political conflicts — get played out at the street level,” she says. Today, Locke lives in Sacramento, California, where her husband works as a public defender. “When a law gets changed in Sacramento,” she says, “I see the way that plays out in his clients, in their lives.”
Locke says the notion that "what happens at the 30,000 foot level of American culture and politics gets distilled down to the street” is always central to her work.
“The shoe leather of crime fiction keeps you grou
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