Date: March 10–19, 2017 Location: Austin, TX Description: For nine days in March, creatives of all stripes gather for the acclaimed SXSW Film Program to celebrate raw innovation and emerging talent both behind and in front of the camera. Now in its 24th year, the 2017...
by Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act Launched at New York University (NYU) in 1996, the Black Genius series was conceived by author Walter Mosley, Manthia Diawara (Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs at NYU) and writer, film scholar and emeritus NYU...
from Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson https://youtu.be/9-q_1R9FZc8 The late Sam Greenlee (author of “The Spook Who Sat By The Door”), who died in May 2014, was never one to mince words, especially when it came to dishing on the state of what we call “black cinema,”...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PLAIH3GshI Director: Devin E. Haqq Writer(s): William Shakespeare Starring: Assol Abdullina, Brandt Adams, Michelle Beck, Kathleen Chalfant, Matt Citron, Brian D. Coats, Nathan Darrow, Roberto De Felice, Helton Falavinha, Valeria...
https://vimeo.com/71645767 Director: Angelo Bell Writer(s): Angelo Bell Starring: Tehmina Sunny, Alimi Ballard, Ravi Kapoor, Phil Idrissi, Emayatzy Corinealdi Synopsis: A disgraced US Marshal is reinstated to track down an escaped female prisoner but begins to suspect...
https://youtu.be/m8pGJBgiiDU Director: Jim Jarmusch Writer(s): Jim Jarmusch Starring: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie, Rizwan Manji, Dominic Liriano, Jaden Michael, Barry Shabaka Henley, Trev Parham, Troy T. Parham, Brian McCarthy, Frank Harts, Luis Da Silva...
https://youtu.be/spCxVd9ctFs Director: Denzel Washington Writer(s): August Wilson, Tony Kushner Starring: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, Saniyya Sidney, Christopher Mele, Lesley Boone,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfrDhgUMGI Director: Theodore Melfi Writer(s): Allison Schroeder, Margot Lee Shetterly Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell,...
https://youtu.be/tP5aMa9_7fM Director: John Hamburg Writer(s): Jonah Hill, John Hamburg Starring: Zoey Deutch, James Franco, Tangie Ambrose, Cedric the Entertainer, Bob Stephenson, Bryan Cranston, Megan Mullally, Zack Pearlman, Griffin Gluck, Jee Young Han, Mary Pat...
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...