by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act 2019 has seen some historic firsts for Black women on the film festival front. In February, Nigerian-American filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu became the first Black woman to win the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for her U.S....
by Aramide A. Tinubu | Shadow and Act The landscape of cinema has been changing slowly but surely. With more women and people of color behind the camera, genres are stretching and shifting. Different types of stories are finally being showcased to the masses. With her...
by Dino-Ray Ramos | Deadline Hollywood In his feature film debut The Burial of Kojo, Blitz Bazawule tells a story of two brothers through the gaze of a gifted girl who travels between gorgeous lands that exist in life and death. It’s not your ordinary narrative film,...
by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act Us, Jordan Peele's follow up to Get Out, has been the subject of huge critical and commercial acclaim. The film grossed a staggering $70 million in its opening weekend, making it the second-biggest opening of the year behind Captain...
By Will Thorne | Variety When New York & Company approached Gabrielle Union to be their new brand ambassador and the face of her own clothing line, the actress reacted with “disbelief.” “We are not supposed to be getting those offers, I’m not supposed to be having...
by Malik Adán | Shadow and Act Artist. Producer. Director. Writer. Mother. Sister. Community Builder. When Shadow And Act caught up with Numa Perrier in Austin at South By Southwest, these were just a few of the hats we covered. By all accounts, she’s a busy woman....
Charlize Theron and Michael B. Jordan start talking before the cameras are even rolling. They are exchanging secrets about how they both disappear into character, undergoing dramatic physical — and emotional — transformations. That’s certainly been the case this year...
I just read this article by Brooke Obie on Shadow and Act that was posted on December 14, 2018. I didn't post it here because it's really long, but if you are wondering what the Green Book controversy is about, you MUST read it....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-_EysVGlo Wanda Sykes takes a lie detector test. Does she still work for the NSA? Does she think her wife every fake laughs at her jokes? Wanda Sykes is on tour! Upcoming dates include: Punch Line Philadelphia, PA 2/26/2019 Punch Line...
by Shadow and Act Shadow and Act has a special Valentine's Day present for their readers: They put together a video documenting 120 years of #BlackLove. Set to the score of Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk by Nicholas Brittell, it starts with 1898's Something...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOtYPfcSuo "Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" star Tiffany Haddish takes a lie detector test for Vanity Fair. Could Tiffany Haddish tell a joke in Japanese? Does think she could get swindled into joining a cult? What does her dating app...
Mahershala Ali (“Green Book”) and John David Washington (“BlacKkKlansman”) have catapulted into the awards season conversation with two searing films about race in America. Both movies are based on true stories. Ali, who won the supporting actor Oscar in 2017 for...