Reel Sisters is pleased to announce that veteran producer and NBPC Broadcast Manager will serve as our 2016 curator! She will lead our curatorial team in selecting exclusive films for Reel Sisters! LISA DURDEN, Award Winning Producer Content Creator + Pop-Culture...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: This film chronicles the life of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a one of a kind musician, personality, satirist and...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 2 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band is a documentary about a brilliant outlier, a woman who dared to live...
By: African Voices Magazine Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series will present a screening of ALTHEA, a documentary on Althea Gibson, the first African-American tennis player to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1950s. In honor of...
Career Conversations with Uzo Aduba. Moderated by Stuart Webber, President, The Oxford Union. Uzoamaka "Uzo" Aduba is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black...
https://youtu.be/vNl0nQ_ChsM Director: Russell Brown Writer(s): Russell Brown Starring: Joely Fisher, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Grace Folsom, Nicole Carmela, Michael Muhney, Ayumi Iizuka, Jonathan Slavin, Philipp Karner, Nick Court, Daphne Zuniga, Connie Stevens, Devon...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act AFI Silver's 2016 New African Films Festival kicks off later this month, running from March 11-18, at the historic AFI Silver Theatre, in Silver Spring, Maryland, showcasing the year’s best in African filmmaking. This year’s...
https://vimeo.com/171082857 Director: Danny Albury, David Bispham Writer(s): Danny Albury, David Bispham, Niall Kenny Starring: Dan Richardson, Cengiz Dervis, Hugh Quarshie, Amanda Mealing, Andrew Harwood Mills, Olivia Popica, Sean Cronin, Guy Henry, Bob Barrett,...
https://youtu.be/-lE9sImhnLw Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Writer(s): Robert Carlock, Kim Barker Starring: Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, Christopher Abbott, Billy Bob Thornton, Nicholas Braun, Stephen Peacocke, Sheila Vand, Evan...
https://youtu.be/yJaVR3ZXJjs Director: Babak Najafi Writer(s): Christian Gudegast, Chad St. John Starring: Alon Aboutboul, Waleed Zuaiter, Adel Bencherif, Mehdi Dehbi, Shivani Ghai, Martin Petrushev, Owen Davis, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Wildman, Radha...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Will Smith will reteam with his "Suicide Squad" director David Ayer, to tackle a new project titled “Bright,” which Joel Edgerton is also attached to co-star in, with Max Landis penning the script. Full details on "Bright" are...
https://youtu.be/mOp4szS2lsw Director: Byron Howard, Rich Moore Writer(s): Jared Bush, Phil Johnston Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Tommy Chong, J.K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk,...