who is justin simien?first thought i had was, which i'll ask you whether or not white folk get this. clearly, it's a satire. we live in a world people don't get satire. the movie going to come out and they are going to be all over you about the message and the film. do you think people can and will get the point? >> i think they can and will. i mean the cool thing about the movie is we started in sun dance. not particularly black heavy audience. >> that's charitable and generous. >> that's where we began. i had the pleasure of seeing the film in atlanta. i screened it in new york with a half and half audience. i screened all over the place with different racial make ups. they show up and sell out in record time. they stay and want to talk about it and connection with the characters. i think part is because the movie has politics on the mind. at the heart, it is a story about identity. it's a part of the human condition. we struggle with who we are versus how we are perceived. what is cool is to see people

please welcome justin simien. mr.ymmien thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> very good to be here. >> thanks for being here. congratulations. >> thank you. >> very heady time for you right now. >> it is a heady time. >> are you a writer, director producer of the film dear white people. >> that is true. >> it won the special jury award for breakthrough talent at the 2014 sundance film festival and earned you a spot in variety magazine's ten directors to watch. >> yeah. >> all right. >> that's right. >> how does it feel to know that variety magazine has officially said keep an eye on that black guy. >> it's a little scary, man, i live in the age of twit soar people have got my twitter handle. they can figure out easily where i live, what my movements are. so i don't know. but it's nice, it's an honor and it's kind of surreal to get all of that in my first fill. it's crazy, i'm grateful. >> why dow make the film, called dear white people s it a love letter to white people? >> it is called

writer and producer justin simien. sun dance and the san francisco film festival t. movie has the provocative title, "dear white people." glad you could join us for those conversations coming upright now.