Boots Riley

Who would have thought a film about the power of unionisation would be the toast of Sundance? Certainly not Boots Riley, who’s been trying to make his debut film, Sorry to Bother You, since he first wrote the script in 2012. A surrealist comedy about race and capitalism, it’s equal parts fun and fury. We caught up with the musician-cum-filmmaker to find out how his journey to the director’s chair began.

Riley: I did it a couple of times: first in college, when I was doing just newspapers, and then