from Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson Tavis Smiley continues to make a push into scripted content (film and TV), teaming up with J.J. Abrams (a second time) to produce an event series on the final months of Michael Jackson’s life. It will be an adaptation of Smiley’s...
https://youtu.be/OSe7rkK76x4 Director: Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack Writer(s): NA Starring: Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, Guy Johnson, Diahann Carroll, Don Martin, Louise Meriwether, Nikki Giovanni, Louis Gossett Jr., Alice Windom, Jules Feiffer, Robert Loomis,...
VENUE: Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room at the Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens. DATE: Saturday, September 24 at 4:30PM TOTAL RUNNING TIME: approximately 90 minutes New York Women in Film & Television’s (NYWIFT) Women’s Film...
Michael Mann | Variety One of Muhammad Ali’s biggest struggles culminated in 1974’s Rumble in the Jungle, where it seemed that the spirit of the progressive forces in the world was about to battle the spirit of the repressive status quo. Early on, Cassius Clay related...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: April 6, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Back in 1989, the 16mm version of James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket received stellar reviews and awards. Honored at...
It is indeed a wonderful revelation in the history of world cinema that immensely talented women filmmakers of Africa and the African Diaspora are making it really big in innovative filmmaking. Not only are they challenging old cinematic prescriptions, they are also...
https://youtu.be/1m-4qxz08So Director: Jeff Stilson Writer(s): Lance Crouther, Paul Marchand (ghostwriter), Chris Rock, Chuck Sklar, Jeff Stilson Starring: Tanya Crumel, Kevin Kirk, Jason Griggers, Maya Angelou, Marvet Britto, A’Lelia Bundles, Vanessa Bell Calloway,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9QFi7TB6Ag Director: Tyler Perry Writer(s): Tyler Perry Starring: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Lisa Arrindell, Maya Angelou, Rochelle Aytes, Jenifer Lewis, Tangi Miller, Keke Palmer, Henry Simmons, Cicely...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xiEbjEqYBY&pbjreload=10 Director: Yvonne Welbon Writer(s): Yvonne Welbon Starring: Stephanie Allain, Madeline Anderson, Maya Angelou, Neema Barnette, Julie Dash, Bridgett M. Davis, DeMane Davis, Zeinabu irene Davis, Cheryl Dunye, Shari...
Director: Wendy Miller, Shirley Neal Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Debbie Allen, Maya Angelou, Neema Barnette, Fred Berry, Steven Bochco, Donald Bogle, Julian Bond, Wayne Brady, LeVar Burton, Reuben Cannon, Diahann Carroll, Nell Carter, Thomas Carter, Nat ‘King’ Cole,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csWByunwVI8 Director: Orlando Bagwell Writer(s): Orlando Bagwell, Steve Bagwell, Steve Fayer Starring: Malcolm X, Alfre Woodard, Sharon 10X, Benjamin 2X, Mohmaed Al-Faysal, Maya Angelou, John Henrik Clarke, Ossie Davis, Alex Haley, Yuri...
https://youtu.be/Y3w08wOr1K0 Director: John Singleton Writer(s): John Singleton Starring: Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Khandi Alexander, Ché J. Avery, Maya Angelou, Lloyd Avery II, Kimberly Brooks, Rico Bueno, Maia Campbell, Jeff Cantrel, Michael Colyar, Kina Cosper,...