https://youtu.be/7nK2BCMbczY Cooley High and Good Times Creator Eric Monte interviewed by Philadelphia Inquirer's Annette John-Hall at the 2006 Black Film and Media Conference.
Eric Monte – The Unseen Interview
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Am I Typecast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpST8KE3vSI from Shadow and Act In the video below, actor Michael Kenneth Williams headlines the new “Question Your Answers” brand campaign from The Atlantic, in which he plays different versions of himself, interrogating himself about...
A Two-Hour Conversation Kathleen Collins
Shadow and Act | Sergio Mims Watch the 1984 Kathleen Collins interview from Milestone Film & Video below: There’s no need to tell you that there have always been independent black filmmakers, long before Spike Lee burst upon the scene in the mid-1980’s; too many...
Voicing Groot is a Challenge for Vin Diesel
from ScreenRant | by Emily Donn If there is one thing Guardians of the Galaxy did not lack for, it was lovable and funny characters. From the opening moments, where Star-Lord danced to Redbones’ Come and Get Your Love it was clear that this movie would not have...
Making Films Cheap & Appreciating Them: Possible or Taboo?
from Shadow and Act | Tambay Obenson Watch the 40-minute interview with Jason Blum, which actually happened just before “Get Out” opened in USA theaters I watched the below awesome interview with Jason Blum (head of Blumhouse Productions, the company behind the...
Samuel L. Jackson Talks Kong, Racism and Trump…
Sam Jack talks Trump, his truth on American racism & the Difference between Hollywood and British Black actors with Hot97's Ebro Darden and Laura Stylez.
2017 Tribeca Film Festival
Event: 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Date: April 19 - 30, 2017 Location: New York, NY TFF announced the feature films that will screen within the following programs: Competition, including US Narrative, Documentary, and International Narrative categories; Spotlight,...
Jordan Peele Plans to Make ‘Social Thrillers’
from Shadow and Act | Tambay Obenson When it comes to pure horror filmmaking, “black stories” are still woefully under-represented unfortunately, even though it’s a genre whose supernatural or uncanny aspects and narrative structure, lends itself extremely well to...
Interview: Getting Personal with Mariette Monpierre
Shadow and Act | Sergio Mims Filmmaker Mariette Monpierre’s touching and beautiful feature film debut, “Elza,” screens at the Pan African Film Festival tomorrow night, Saturday, February 11 at 7:00p, and again on Monday February 13 at 6:10p. Read Vanessa Martinez’s...
60+ Black Biopics Still In Limbo
from Shadow and Act | Tambay Obenson Updating this list as I do once a year (I forgot to do it last year; so there was a lot to research and catch up on) to keep you all up-to-date on where each project stands going into the new year, including 18 new additions… There...
Billy Dee Speaks on Star Wars and Batman
by Patrick Shanley | The Hollywood Reporter In 1989, Billy Dee Williams starred as Gotham City district attorney Harvey Dent in director Tim Burton's seminal Batman. The plan, as legend goes, was for Williams to return in subsequent Caped Crusader sequels as the...
Conversations: David Oyelowo – A Career Retrospective
Q&A with David Oyelowo. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. A UNITED KINGDOM is the true story of the forbidden love of King Seretse Khama of Botswana (David Oyelowo) and Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), a white woman from London, which caused an international...