'The truth is, the scene we made seven years ago is racist. Jokes my collaborators and I made online discussing the scene seven years ago are also racist. I'm deeply sorry,' Law posted on Twitter on Friday afternoon.
Actor and writer Michelle Law, who led the social media charge against Sydney Film Festival's prize-winning short, has apologised for a "racist" scene that "depicted dangerous stereotypes" in a film she wrote.that showed a white girl and boy and an Asian girl putting ash on their faces while performing an "ancient Mayan ritual" to bring on menstruation."The truth is, the scene we made seven years ago is racist.
Ms Chen confirmed to this masthead that the video was removed from her personal website and her Vimeo channel "a few weeks ago in June". One respected Indigenous filmmaker who had seen the film – which has also been viewed by this masthead – pointed to it as a marker of how easily scenes could be taken out of context.
Ms Law said she decided to post the apology – "owning [her] mistakes and errors completely" – after an anonymous Twitter user posted clips from the scene.The apology appeared hours after this masthead had approached Ms Chen for comment onThe Sydney Morning Herald,
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