Casting Strange Update

Its been reported at The Root that the new movie “New in Town,” starring Renee Zellweger actually started out as a fish-out-of-water tale about a southern black woman who ends up working in a small midwestern town. How did it morph into a vehicle about a white woman from Miami transplanted to a small [...]

Welcome to The Sepia Screen

This blog is dedicated to chronicling films featuring people of color in non-stereotypical roles.  My reasons for starting this blog are summed up in an article I wrote this summer on my other blog mesoamused.com and appears below:

My Struggle with Hollywood’s Quintessential Negro
August 24, 2008

This week I was able to attend a screening of the movie “The Express” [...]