Tag: Black Movies

DGA Award Nominations Acknowledge Existence of Female Directors | Vulture

African 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 […]

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Chadwick Boseman To Play African Samurai ‘Yasuke’ In Deal With Picturestart, De Luca Productions, Solipsist & X●ception Content | Deadline

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Mike Fleming, Deadline [dropcap]Exclusive[/dropcap]: Fresh from playing the African warrior king Black Panther in Avengers: Endgame, Chadwick Boseman has officially aligned himself to play Yasuke, the first African samurai to swing a sword in Japan. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Erik Feig’s Picturestart has teamed with Mike De Luca and his De Luca Productions banner, Stephen L’Heureux and […]

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Mati Diop on being the first black female director in Cannes | The Washington Post

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Jake Coyle | AP, The Washington Post Ms. Rivers founded the Black Bourbon Society in 2017. It now has more than 4,700 members.CreditAaron Borton for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]CANNES[/dropcap], France — Mati Diop was initially disappointed when she, by reading a news article, discovered that she was the first black female filmmaker in the […]

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The Uphill Battles of Black Talent Agents in Hollywood | The New York Times

African American Entertainment, African American Film ...

Cara Buckley, The New York Times Lorrie Bartlett of ICM Partners, left; Brandon Lawrence of Creative Artists Agency; and J.B. Fitzgerald of United Talent Agency. Credit Photographs by Erik Carter for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]Movies[/dropcap] like “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” don’t come around all that often partly because of how […]

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