By Jazz Tangcay | Variety Effie T. Brown joined film financing fund Gamechanger as CEO earlier this year because she wanted to make a difference in the industry. After “Parasite’s” historic win at the 92nd Academy Awards, she finally feels hopeful. “It was that...
By Stella Meghie | Variety “The Photograph” is about to enter its third week in theaters. My head’s still spinning from the reviews and Twitter response — but let’s pretend I don’t read those. Folks have been kind to the film and I’m grateful. There’s unbearable...
By Robin Thede | Variety From “The Queen Latifah Show,” “The Nightly Show,” “The Rundown with Robin Thede” and “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” my career has been dedicated in large part to the representation, advancement and celebration of black people year-round. And I...
by Kasi Lemmons | Variety My influences were literary initially. I was a big reader of books so my influences were Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and southern novelists. In terms of film, I liked Bergman a lot and Hitchcock, but there were a lot of different...
by Scott Feinberg | The Hollywood Reporter Ashley Boone Jr., the first black president of a major Hollywood studio, helped make George Lucas' quirky space opera a hit in the 1970's — yet chances are you've never heard of him: "He was way ahead of his time."...
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act In celebration of Black History Month, Shadow And Act has put together a list of five documentaries that definitely need to be on your watchlist to view before the month is over! 1. Uppity (2020) Executive producers Nic Maye and Van...
By Nathaniel G. Nesmith | American Theatre With Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway...
By Dino-Ray Ramos | Deadline After nine days of films, episodics, events, premieres and snow, Sundance is winding down and its ending with huge news as the Park City fest has announced Tabitha Jackson as the new Director of the Sundance Film Festival. Jackson, who...
By Marc Malkin | Variety To say Cynthia Erivo’s last few months have been nothing like she has ever experienced before would be an understatement. Let’s just get to the obvious: the British actor and singer is not only a first-time Oscar nominee, but she’s up for two...
By Marc Malkin | Variety Issa Rae says she had every reason to think she could be a filmmaker when she was growing up. “The ’90s had lots of black television and film … a lot of the shows were helmed by black people,” she recalls. “That’s what inspired me to at least...
By Elsa Keslassy | Variety Director and activist Spike Lee will serve as jury president of the 73rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Lee succeeds Alejandro G. Iñárritu, whose 2019 jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” which won...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peO7GpiShaA Laura Dern revealed that her mother didn't want her to be an actress and Sterling K. Brown talked about the importance of having a person of color in "Frozen II" during their Actors on Actors conversation.