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Netflix To Distribute Spike Lee-Produced Film ‘See You Yesterday’ | Deadline
Netflix has come aboard to distribute See You Yesterday, a travel drama produced by Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. The pic is the directorial debut from Stefon Bristol, Lee’s long-time NYU Graduate Film School protege.
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Film About Free Black Women Millionaires In The 1800s Coming To Screen | Madame Noire
Veronica Wells , Madame Noire [dropcap]One[/dropcap] of the criticisms we’ve had about period pieces that center Black people is the fact that so many of the stories center around slavery, struggle and subservience. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] But a new film seeks to do something different. The play The House That Will Not Stand, is becoming a […]
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Ava DuVernay Secures the Bag With $100 Million Warner Bros. TV Deal | The Root
This is DuVernay’s first contract with any studio, and the relationship is set to begin in January 2019.
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Your Guide to the Smithsonian African American Film Festival | Washingtonian
More than 80 films will show at the first annual festival from October 24-October 27
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From Birth of a Nation to BlacKkKlansman: Hollywood’s complex relationship with the KKK | The Guardian
Spike Lee’s latest film, about a black detective infiltrating the Klan, once again raises the issue of how seriously cinema should take the white supremacist group.
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The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. | The New Yorker
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), is a political fiction, based on a novel by Sam Greenlee, about the first black man in the C.I.A.
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Nat Geo Developing ‘Hidden Figures’ Scripted Series | Colorlines
The series draws from the Oscar-nominated movie about the Black women whose mathematical expertise made some of NASA’s earliest missions possible.
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Grace Jones on a Lifetime of Doing Whatever She Pleases | The New York Times
The documentary “Bloodlight and Bami” showcases the 69-year-old music and fashion icon at her most fierce and most vulnerable.
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The Cast of ‘Atlanta’ on Trump, Race and Fame | The New York Times
The breakout FX comedy, created by Donald Glover, returns with a grittier new season.
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