African American Film - KOLUMN Magazine

Actor Kofi Siriboe’s New Media Company Is An Ode To Black Culture | NewsOne

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film ...

— Brandee Sanders, NewsOne Actor Kofi Siriboe has used his artistry as a vessel to bring poignant stories that capture the essence of the Black experience to films and the small screen. The Queen Sugar star will continue to amplify diverse narratives through the creation of a new lifestyle media brand. Siriboe’s new venture—dubbed We’re Not Kids Anymore—is a platform that […]

James McBride among those honored by Center for Fiction | Black News Channel

December 5, 2020December 5, 2020African American Film

— Associated Press, Black News Channel NEW YORK (AP) — Author James McBride and editor Chris Jackson were among those honored Thursday night by the Center for Fiction. McBride and Showtime received an On Screen Award for the acclaimed adaptation of his prize-winning historical novel “The Good Lord Bird,” which starred Ethan Hawke as […]

Regina King On Movie Directorial Debut ‘One Night In Miami’: “The Time Is Now For This Film” — Venice Film Festival | Deadline

September 4, 2020September 4, 2020African American Film, KOLUMN Magazine

— By Andreas Wiseman, Deadline Emmy and Oscar-winning actress Regina King is in uncharted waters. “I am so excited and anxious – all the different forms of that word,” King tells us about unveiling her feature directorial debut One Night In Miami. “Pull up a thesaurus and look up the word anxious and I am all of those things. We […]

First Look at Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods | Vanity Fair

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film

The Oscar winner on his Vietnam War drama: “I’m not being disrespectful to any Vietnam film…except maybe The Green Berets with John Wayne.” Five young African American soldiers are listening to the radio in the jungle of Vietnam when they learn that one of their bravest has died—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., felled not by a Vietcong […]

Niles Fitch To Play First Black Live-Action Disney Prince | Essence

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film

The rising star is set to play a young prince in Disney+’s “Secret Society of Second-Born Royals.” Niles Fitch is lending his dazzling smile to Disney. The This Is Us star will play the first Black live-action prince in Disney history. According to Entertainment Weekly, Fitch will be playing Tuma, a “charismatic and self-centered” young prince in the Secret […]

Black Cinema at Its Birth | Criterion

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film

American cinema is over 125 years old, and African Americans have been a part of it from the beginning. This participation has often been fraught, stymied, and curtailed, but the desire to use motion pictures to craft a self-image has motivated African American filmmakers and performers since the medium’s emergence. At last a fuller picture […]

How Reginald Hudlin’s creative risk-taking has shaped black—and pop—culture | Fast Company

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film

Digging into Reginald Hudlin’s résumé is like the most inspiring rabbit hole you could possibly tumble down. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Most people know Hudlin as the director of such classic ’90s films as House Party and Boomerang. And while he’s been consistent on the directing front, most recently with his Netflix doc The Black Godfather, about […]

Cicely Tyson Is Giving Advice We All Need In New ‘Cherish The Day’ Trailer | Essence

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film

Cecily Tyson doesn’t let up. After popping up in Tyler Perry’s new Netflix film, A Fall From Grace, premiering Friday, the 95-year-old actress’ new role is in Ava DuVernay’s new romantic drama, Cherish The Day.. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The very first trailer for the OWN series, which premieres next month, was released Thursday and is getting […]

‘Cane River’: A Forgotten Black Director’s Only Film Resurfaces After Being Lost for 40 years | IndieWire

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020African American Cinema, African American Entertainment ...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired the restored film for a theatrical run to begin in February. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Debuting in 1982, “Cane River” was an independent-film curio: a race and colorism-themed love story with an all-black cast, written and directed by a black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black backers. The filmmaker’s name was Horace B. Jenkins, […]

The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. (2018) | The New Yorker

January 22, 2020January 27, 2020African American Film

Ivan Dixon’s “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” from 1973, displays the bedrock of racist attitudes and assumptions that renders racist policies both inescapable and irreparable. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film, “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” which is playing at Metrograph from Friday through Sunday (it’s also on DVD and streaming), […]