Shadow & Act | Jean Camara Picking up on Tambay’s “Notes on Working Towards a Fanboy/FanGirl Culture in Black Independent Cinema” piece published on this blog in May, since reading that piece, I’ve been pondering how I could contribute to the idea of creating a...
Shadow & Act | Martine Jean Festival de Cannes 2013: for the first time in its history, the festival hosted a Caribbean extravaganza on the beach. Caribbean Zouk music filled the air. The band played on even as rain drops fell. Euzhan Palcy emerged from the crowd,...
Career retrospective with Nia Long. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Since making her film debut in John Singleton’s Oscar-nominated film, “Boyz In The Hood,” Nia Long continues to cultivate a versatile resume in both film and television. On the big screen, Long...
Q&A with Jayne Atkinson, Donna Lynne Champlin, Colman Domingo, Michel Gil, and LaTanya Richardson Jackson. Moderated by Lori Hammel. Join us for an evening with five esteemed New York actors with substantial resumes and stories to share. They'll cover how they got...
The Tony-Nominated Actress Talks Theater, Music, and Enjoying the Ride Shadow & Act | George Kevin Jordan Saycon Sengbloh is giving you a master class in pitch and dialect. “Every accent has a different kind of pitch,” she explains, “there is a coloring and melody...
Michael Mann | Variety One of Muhammad Ali’s biggest struggles culminated in 1974’s Rumble in the Jungle, where it seemed that the spirit of the progressive forces in the world was about to battle the spirit of the repressive status quo. Early on, Cassius Clay related...
Shadow & Act | Robyn Batts After all, can one show a Black woman, our thickness in thighs, our bushy hair, our dulcet tones and not have it explode the encased construct of White female sexuality? Starz’s “The Girlfriend Experience” is directed by a woman and a...
“Black-ish” star Tracee Ellis Ross recently sat down with “The People v. O.J. Simpson” actor Courtney B. Vance for Variety and PBS’ “Actors on Actors” where they discussed race and the intensity of working in television. Watch the full interview.
...Sundance/Kickstarter Panel on Strategies for Reaching & Engaging Black Audiences from Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson Taped earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, Kickstarter hosted a panel that included speakers I’m sure many of you are familiar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2UxWltbejM 'Every Industry Is So White,' Not Just Hollywood Lamarco McClendon | Variety.com Kerry Washington and Aziz Ansari sat down for the fourth season of Variety’s and PBS’ Actors on Actors series and the two actors struggled to...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims Perhaps… just perhaps. No need to tell you that the distribution game has radically changed in just a few short years. I recall it wasn’t that long ago when you would ask an independent filmmaker what their plans were for their film, and...
Career Conversations with Danielle Brooks currently starring in The Color Purple. Moderated by BroadwayWorld.com's Richard Ridge of "Backstage with Richard Ridge!" Danielle Brooks can currently be seen onstage in the moving revival of The Color Purple, starring...