The streaming service launched Monday that a scripted restricted sequence examining the adolescent lifestyles of the athlete and activist is in the works. Colin in Shadowy & White, created by Kaepernick and the Emmy-winning filmmaker, will have faith in his formative high college years, “lending meaningful insight into the acts and experiences” that resulted in his efforts to battle police brutality and systemic racism.
Michael Starrbury writes and serves as government producer, alongside DuVernay, 47, and Kaepernick, 32, who could presumably even be the narrator.
The six-episode sequence changed into once conceived in 2019, and the script changed into once accomplished in Might maybe perhaps furthermore impartial. Colin in Shadowy & White will provide an introspective glimpse at Kaepernick’s lifestyles, from his early years as a Shadowy cramped one rising up with a white adopted household to his NFL stride and beyond.
The restricted sequence reunites Starrbury and DuVernay, who finally worked together on Netflix’s acclaimed When They See Us, which got 16 Emmy nominations and changed into once currently honored with a Peabody Award.
Kaepernick famously started the #TakeAKnee shuffle in 2016, when he kneeled for the period of the national anthem as a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers to call consideration to the complications with racial inequality. The demonstrations made him the blueprint of critics who thought to kneel for the period of the anthem changed into once intended to be disrespectful toward the flag and troops. (After all, it changed into once an extinct Inexperienced Beret who knowledgeable Kaepernick to kneel as a different of final seated for the period of the protests.)
The #TakeAKnee shuffle attracted renewed toughen in Might maybe perhaps furthermore impartial after the demise of George Floyd, a Shadowy man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer forcibly positioned his knee on his neck for virtually nine minutes.
After opting out of his contract with the 49ers in 2017, Kaepernick has no longer accomplished in an NFL recreation in practically four years.
“In conjunction with his act of speak, Colin Kaepernick ignited a national dialog about bustle and justice with long way-reaching consequences for football, culture, and for him, in my idea,” acknowledged DuVernay in an assertion. “Colin’s story has grand to claim about id, sports, and the enduring spirit of speak and resilience. I couldn’t be happier than to repeat this story with the crew at Netflix.”
“Too frequently we explore bustle and Shadowy tales portrayed through a white lens,” Kaepernick acknowledged. “We explore to present fresh standpoint to the different realities that Shadowy Americans face. We explore the racial conflicts I faced as an adopted Shadowy man in a white neighborhood, for the period of my high college years. It’s an honor to bring these tales to lifestyles in collaboration with Ava for the arena to demand.”
“We’re proud to bring Colin’s ride and his artistic imaginative and prescient to lifestyles as he joins Ava to fragment his unheard-of story and message with all our participants around the arena,” acknowledged Cindy Holland, VP of common shriek for Netflix. “It is a long way an unparalleled union of two stable and defining voices coming together to repeat the story about what it’s rob to be Shadowy in The United States.”