I feel you, I got into screenwriting for similar reasons. Despite being a white dude, I felt that my own experience growing up in a multi-cultural setting wasn’t being represented well enough. Of course, the culture I claim Hip-Hop was certainly being under-represented as well as mis-represented too often for my taste.

I wonder as well. However, it is also a question of where would you even see it if it exists? There is a mainstream entertainment media and now a mainstream “indie” media that, believe me, is difficult to crack at all.

I also notice that even “indie darling” films with people of color have a homogenous point-of-view and often are championed by white indie media darlings so there is not a diversity in the storytelling.

I think that the movie “Somebodies” was a revelation to many and not surprising as they’d not seen people of color presented in such a casual “normal person” light before…why? As you rightly point out, we all could relate to “Clerks” and “Swingers” and the like…why should Sundance be blown away by a film in the same vein with a cast of African-Americans? I think we all know why.

I hope to see more diversity bubble to the surface, but 13 years isn’t that long. You’ll be around fighting the good fight and in 13 years you’ll see some improvement but still want more…me too!

“You’re so money!” Charles!

-Martin