from Shadow & Act The above 2-minute homage to black actresses was produced as part of British Film Institute’s (BFI) ongoing Black Star project – an exhaustive program and the UK’s largest ever season of film and television dedicated to celebrating the range,...
Actor Danny Glover talks to broadcaster Samira Ahmed about his career, growing up in San Francisco and working with Mel Gibson. Glover also discusses the influence of his mother and grandmother on his life and how his acting developed in films such as The Colour...
Aramide A. Tinubu | Shadow & Act Though her father was a research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Margot Lee Shetterly knew very little of the Black female engineers, scientists, and mathematicians that helped...
https://youtu.be/4haJD6W136c Director: Justin Kurzel Writer(s): Bill Collage, Adam Cooper Starring: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Kenneth Williams, Denis Ménochet, Ariane Labed, Khalid Abdalla, Essie...
https://youtu.be/esSjfWbDUck Director: Garth Jennings Writer(s): Garth Jennings Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Jennifer Saunders, Jennifer Hudson, Garth Jennings, Peter...
https://youtu.be/mtTAhXuiRTc Director: André Øvredal Writer(s): Ian B. Goldberg, Richard Naing Starring: Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond, Michael McElhatton, Olwen Catherine Kelly, Jane Perry, Parker Sawyers, Mary Duddy, Mark Phoenix, Sydney Synopsis: Cox...
https://youtu.be/yVXQq2u6OP0 Director: Morten Tyldum Writer(s): Jon Spaihts Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Vince Foster, Kara Flowers, Conor Brophy, Julee Cerda, Aurora Perrineau, Lauren Farmer, Emerald Mayne,...
Date: June 14-18, 2017 Venue: Miami, Florida The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) announced today that actress Regina Hall has been selected as its 2017 celebrity ambassador. The ABFF will celebrate its 21st year with a lineup of film screenings and expanded...
Four creative talents , Lin-Manuel Miranda, Donald Glover, Issa Rae, and Damien Chazelle, flaunting the conventions of formula, go back and forth with director Jon Favreau (a onetime wunderkind himself) on success, struggling and staying sane: "The bullshit meter is...
VENUE: Park City,- Utah DATE: January 19 - 29, 2017 Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides and preserves the space for artists in film, theatre and new media to create and thrive. Artist programs offer support...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims A past item worth revisiting in light of this morning’s news (see previous post) that his collection of very early 20th century films are among the 25 titles selection by the Library of Congress for the 2016 National Film Registry of...
Director: Vikram Gandhi Writer(s): Adam Mansbach Starring: Devon Terrell, Jason Mitchell, Ashley Judd, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jenna Elfman, Jeremy Sample, Souleymane Sy Savane, Robert McKay, Markita Prescott, Alexis Nichole Smith, Cherie Danielle, Eric Berryman...