The Man Who Made The Year's Best (And Funniest) Film About Race

BuzzFeed - Meet Justin Simien, the director of Dear White People , the movie everyone’s going to be talking about. “In a nation that is increasingly more diverse, you’re at a handicap the more you refuse to see the world through other people’s points of views,” he told BuzzFeed News. Dear White People writer/director Justin Simien. Jon Premosch/BuzzFeed News The greatest throwaway line in Dear White People? It might just be the hilarious summary that Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the movie's incendiary race warrior, offers her professor of her "15-page unsolicited treatise on why the Gremlins is actually about suburban white fear of black culture." "The gremlins are loud, talk in slang, are addicted to fried chicken, and freak out when you get their hair wet," she points out. Dear White People, which is now open in limited release, may be filled with razor-edged quips like that, but it's so much more than just a clever comedy. Set in a tony, mostly white priva