'12 Years A Slave' Was A Film That 'No One Was Making'

Director Steve McQueen tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he wanted to help fill a "huge hole in the canon of cinema." And actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose parents are from Nigeria, says he grew up feeling "a sense of unity amongst African people and people of African heritage."

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/10/24/240288057/12-years-a-slave-was-a-film-that-no-one-was-making?ft=1&f=1045

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