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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 […]

‘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), […]

Matthew Cherry’s ‘Hair Love’ Receives Well Deserved Oscar Nomination | Because of Them We Can

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film

Hair Love, the popular children’s book turned animated short by former NFL player, Matthew Cherry, gets nominated for an Oscar, USA Today reports. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] We first wrote about Cherry and his budding animated short in 2017. The NFL player turned filmmaker was on a mission to highlight the relationship between Black fathers and daughters […]

DGA Award Nominations Acknowledge Existence of Female Directors | Vulture

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film

The Directors Guild of America has announced its nominees for Best Feature Film Director of 2019, and many of them are women — or at least many of them in the First-Time Feature Film Director category are women. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Atlantics’ Mati Diop, Honey Boy’s Alma Har’el, and Queen & Slim’s Melina Matsoukas all received […]

Reading ‘Us’ Through Its T-shirts | The New York Times

January 4, 2020January 4, 2020African American Cinema, African American Film ...

With its star, Lupita Nyong’o, in awards contention this season, a look at the clothes that helped tell the story. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] You could watch Jordan Peele’s “Us” a dozen times and still not catch all of the symbolism, references and ideas tucked in it. Yes, scissors are clearly a thing, but what’s with that […]

Exclusive: Erika Alexander Talks Black Women In Hollywood & Paving Your Own Way | xoNecole

December 15, 2019December 15, 2019African American Entertainment

There are several iconic black leading ladies many of us grew to love and sought to emulate in the 90s. My favorite femme fatale during that time was a lawyer by trade, called a Brooklyn brownstone home, and had three homegirls standing to her left and her right who held her down through the ups […]

Cynthia Erivo and Eddie Murphy Among Golden Globe Nominees | Ebony

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019African American Entertainment, African American Film

The ‘Harriet’ star received two nods; Murphy and ‘Dolemite’ each received one.

‘Juju’: Three Black Women Learn They’re Descendants Of Yoruba Witches In New Fantasy Web Series | Shadow And Act

November 26, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film

When the witch-centric series Siempre Bruja premiered on Netflix in February, it garnered a large amount of criticism on Twitter for its premise: A time-traveling Afro-Colombian witch goes to the 21st-century at the behest of a wizard who promises to save the life of her lover–a white man who turns out to be her slaveholder’s […]

‘The Wire’ actor to attend Harrisburg’s first African-American film festival | Penn Live

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019African American Cinema, Black Hollywood

Sankofa African American Theater Company will host a special guest as they prepare for the region’s first African-American film festival. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The 2019 Sankofa Film Festival will be held on Dec. 27 at the State Museum in Harrisburg. Actor Michael K. Williams, famous for his role as Omar Little in the hit HBO series […]