Tv superproducer Shonda Rhimes made a Black Barbie documentary with Netflix, and we’ve got the trailer.
Written and directed by Lagueria Davis, Black Barbie explores how three Black girls revolutionized the iconography of the Barbie model and the event of the primary Black Barbie.
Right here’s the official synopsis:
“Impressed by the story of her nice aunt Beulah Mae Mitchell, a star Mattel worker courageous sufficient to ask firm co-founder Ruth Handler, “Why don’t we make a Barbie that appears like me? Lagueria Davis explores the influence of that query, and the lengthy street to introducing the primary non-white official Barbie in 1980. That journey launches viewers right into a discovery of the historical past of Black dolls, their influence on civil rights and Black entrepreneurship, and the numerous function of imaginative play in shaping youngsters’s identification. The movie juxtaposes the legacy of three Black girls who blazed new trails at Mattel with the tales of a choose group of Black girls memorialized by Barbie dolls made of their picture, all whereas highlighting movie star and fan reflections on the influence of this iconic doll. It is a celebration of Black tradition over the previous 70 years, and of the precise affect of the Black Barbie doll on the varied array of dolls we’ve come to like right now.”
Camilla Corridor, Jyoti Sarda, Milan Chakraborty, Grace Lay, Sumalee Montano, Rhimes, and Betsy Beers govt produce Black Barbie.
“Black Barbie celebrates the momentous influence three Black girls at Mattel had on the evolution of the Barbie model as we all know it,” the logline reads. “By way of these charismatic insiders tales, the documentary tells the story of how the primary Black Barbie got here to be in 1980, analyzing the significance of illustration and the way dolls might be essential to the formation of identification and creativeness.”
Dealing with producer reins are Davis and Aaliyah Williams. “Black Barbie” hits on Netflix on June 19.
