British filmmaker Steve McQueen’s “12 Years A Slave” won the audience prize for best picture at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. The film, already generating Oscars buzz, is based on a firsthand account of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, recalling the horrors of grueling labor, daily humiliation and families torn apart. Its premiere in Toronto last week received a […]
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