https://youtu.be/yxLByThNvWU Director: Kasper Collin Writer(s): Kasper Collin Starring: Helen Morgan, Lee Morgan Synopsis: A documentary about the turbulent relationship between the great jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife, Helen Morgan that led to her...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims One of the most acclaimed and successful DVD sets of the year was Kino Lorber’s collection “The Pioneers of African American Cinema.” The five disc set curated by historians Prof. Jacqueline Najuma Stewart of the University of Chicago...
https://youtu.be/QVsOm42XUUo Director: Blayne Weaver Writer(s): Blayne Weaver Starring: Blayne Weaver, Lyndie Greenwood, Erin Cahill, Patrick Day, Lance Henriksen, Patrick Kirton, Brandon Barrera, Curtis Jackson, Richard Folmer, John Tillman, Tim J. Smith, Luke...
https://youtu.be/rNUYdgIyaPM Director: Raoul Peck Writer(s): Raoul Peck, James Baldwin Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Robert F. Kennedy, Harry Belafonte, Paul Weiss, Dick Cavett, H. Rap Brown, Bob Dylan,...
https://youtu.be/RWOxNagFcEY Director: Michael Caton-Jones Writer(s): Nick Moorcroft Starring: Shirley Henderson, Letitia Wright, Isabella Laughland, Ian Hart, Steven Mackintosh, Caroline O’Neill, Shaun Parkes, Matthew Steer, Jack McMullen, Jamie Taylor, Athena...
https://youtu.be/z4l3-_yub5A Director: Mira Nair Writer(s): William Wheeler, Tim Crothers Starring: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Kabanza, Taryn Kyaze, Ivan Jacobo, Nicolas Levesque, Ronald Ssemaganda, Ethan Nazario Lubega, Nikita Waligwa,...
https://youtu.be/EOQx2K5RKmE Director: Mick Jackson Writer(s): David Hare, Deborah Lipstadt Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden, Caren Pistorius, Alex Jennings, Harriet Walter, Mark Gatiss, John Sessions, Nikki Amuka-Bird,...
https://vimeo.com/182799776 Director: Eva Contis Writer(s): Eva Contis Starring: Reginal Varice, Kanesha Washington, Cameron Zeigler, Emily Mwakitawa, Zhailon Levingston, Kebron Woodfin, Curtis R. Joseph Jr., Milton L. Crosby, Kermit C. Burns III Synopsis: When...
from Shadow & Act Vivica A. Fox has been cast to play the President of the United States in the sci-fi film “Crossbreed,” which is being directed by Brandon Slagle. In the upcoming movie, Ms. Fox plays a USA president who sends war veterans on a mission to...
from Shadow & Act Expanding his media empire, Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay Z, has inked a two-year production deal with The Weinstein Company (TWC) that will give TWC an exclusive first-look at any film or television projects produced by Carter. The release adds that...
https://youtu.be/tV_IhWE4LP0 Director: Tim Burton Writer(s): Jane Goldman, Ransom Riggs Starring: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Allison Janney, Chris O’Dowd, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Finlay MacMillan, Lauren McCrostie,...
Ava DuVernay discusses the making of her new documentary 13TH at a press conference during the 54th New York Film Festival.