Round 11: Tossup 3

An interviewer for Interview Magazine greeted this director by saying “what’s up, baby?” in an interview that discusses the brothers who wrote the memoir Either You’re In or You’re in the Way. After learning his father-in-law had Chinese ancestors, this director consulted with documentarian Dolly Li to add Taishanese dialogue to one of his screenplays. This director (15[1])used whiteboards (15[1])to explain shooting formats and aspect ratios for a video on Kodak’s (15[2])YouTube channel. This director featured a dance (15[1])scene set to “Rocky (*) Road to Dublin” in a film with a long shot depicting a (10[1])Peking (10[1])opera dancer, ballerinas, (10[1])and other anachronistic musicians surrounded by fire. This Oakland native began working with composer Ludwig (-5[1])Göransson (“YO-rawn-son”) on a film set on the day that BART (10[1])officers killed Oscar Grant. This director cast that film’s star as the identical twins Smoke and Stack in a 2025 vampire western. For 10 points, name this director of Fruitvale Station, Sinners, and Black Panther. (10[1])■END■

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