While protests erupted from coast to coast, seasoned New York City filmmaker Julian Marshall, was devising a plan on how to take his Blackmagic Pocket 4K camera and capture the events unfolding in one of the epicenters of the daily Black Lives Matter movements and nightly blazing riots.
“This film is for anyone who felt outraged at what happened to George Floyd,” Marshall told BET.com “It’s for people who didn’t know what to do.
Awakened by the voices of Cornel West and Killer Mike as they individually called out and further explained the roots of the anger resulting in protests, and riots, Marshall crafted a short film, We Are George Floyd, as his call to action to vote in the 2020 presidential election amid issues such as police brutality, white vigilante violence, and the senseless killings of Black people in America.
BET.com sat down with Marshall to find out more about the vision behind the lens for the short film, We Are George Floyd.
BET: How did you feel when you first say the video of Derek Chauvin’s knee on George Floyd’s neck?
