{"id":11009,"date":"2018-03-08T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viola-davis-44-blue-team-dandy-lions\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:00:16","slug":"viola-davis-44-blue-team-up-for-dandy-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viola-davis-44-blue-team-up-for-dandy-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis, 44 Blue Team Up for Dandy Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>44 Blue Productions is teaming up with Oscar winner Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon\u2019s company, JuVee Productions, for the docuseries <em>Dandy Lions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>44 Blue acquired rights to Shantrelle P. Lewis\u2019s book, <em>Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style<\/em>, on which the documentary series is based. <em>Dandy Lions<\/em> will chart the history of the Black Dandy fashion and style movement and its impact on pop culture and politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter reading Ms. Lewis\u2019s book, and discovering its incredibly timely themes, we were inspired to bring these fascinating but little-known stories to television,\u201d said executive producer Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch, co-founder and president of 44 Blue. \u201cWe could not have found better partners in Ms. Davis, her husband and business partner Julius Tennon and JuVee\u2019s head of television, Andrew Wang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project looks at how men dress in the Dandy style across the world and how they influence culture through a powerful positive lens,\u201d said executive producers Tennon and Davis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to join with 44 Blue in showcasing and celebrating the Dandy Lion phenomenon,\u201d said Andrew Wang, head of TV for JuVee Productions. \u201cDandy Lions \u2018dress to express\u2019 and their bold style choices\u2014a m\u00e9lange of elegant fashions, old and new\u2014are powering a movement that continues to defy stereotypes and redefine traditional notions of masculinity and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Dandy Lions<\/em> presents a fresh, stylistic and at the same time critical look inside a vibrant subculture fashioned by black men across the world but, more generally, witnesses the creative ingenuity of black peoples everywhere,&#8221; said author and executive producer Lewis. \u201cToday, when race sits at the center of many conversations, <em>Dandy Lions<\/em> argues how style has been, and can be, a tool of resistance, while also asserting that Blackness, despite its often one-dimensional misrepresentation in the media, is not a monolith. 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