Sameer Rao, Colorlines year, hundreds of Hollywood executives nominate their favorite unproduced movie screenplays to appear on The Black List. The 2018 list debuted yesterday (December 17) via a funny short, “The Last Days of TJ Scraggs”: The clip stars Paul Scheer (“The League”) as a brash entertainment agent who knocks himself unconscious in 1998…
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African Diaspora Film Festival takes on “Who is Black in America?” | New York Amsterdam News
Stacy M. Brown , New York Amsterdam News Allison Janae Hamilton’s draws on imagery and myths of the rural South. She is an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.Credit Heather Sten for The New York Times. Featured Image popular festival, which showcases black filmmakers, actors, directors and producers all over the world,…
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The inaugural Smithsonian African American Film Festival features four days of screenings and master classes, plus a tribute to veteran filmmakers.
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Black Mother is Allah’s second feature film although many people have seen his work on Beyoncé’s visual album “Lemonade,” on which he is credited as a cinematographer.
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If you thought Ava DuVernay’s ho-hum A Wrinkle in Time adaptation was going to stop her from making another blockbuster, think again. The superpowered director has just signed on to direct the next installment in the DC cinematic universe, an adaptation of their New Gods comics.
Read MoreHow Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It reboot takes aim at gentrified Brooklyn | The Guardian
Lee’s 10-part Netflix remix of his 1986 comedy takes place in a neighborhood that’s become overpriced for and underpopulated by a community squeezed out.
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