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Color Blind

Produced by: Dir. Ryan Hoff | Documentary | 2016 | USA | 8:58

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Password: secret; This documentary focuses around two characters (black person and white person, same gender and age) walking towards each other, who may not hold explicit racist beliefs but have implicit biases, a bias that one is not really aware of and may be socially constructed. The film explores how people stereotype and instantly react to people with different skin color due to implicit biases. As they near each other, they unknowingly stereotype the other person, and become nervous. This encounter plays out, along with news footage, etc that may have caused these people to have these implicit biases. Interviews with experts will explain the situation between the two people, along with interviews before and after people take the Race IAT, an online test which measures implicit bias. In the end, the two people bump into each other and drop their books. Rather than the worse-case scenario they were predicting, they help each other pick up their books and realize they are the same book. Not only were they fine all along, but they realize that their implicit bias misguided them.