Pete Hammond | Deadline Hollywood The American Film Institute today unveiled its full lineup of galas that will screen at this year’s AFI Fest, and judging from the list it looks like Netflix is conquering yet another fall film festival with no less than three of the...
VENUE: New York’s AMC Empire 25. DATE: September 19-23, 2018 from Shadow and Act The 22nd Annual Urbanworld Film Festival has added Steve McQueen’s Widows starring Viola Davis and the Amandla Stenberg-starring The Hate U Give to its film screening slate....
from the BFI official website The 62nd BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is thrilled to announce that this year’s Opening Night gala will be Academy Award-winner Steve McQueen’s Widows. The international premiere will take place on...
from NYFF56 This year’s Main Slate showcases films from 22 different countries, including new titles from celebrated auteurs, extraordinary work from directors making their first NYFF bows, and captivating features that wowed audiences at international festivals. Five...
Matt Warren | LA Film Festival The 2018 LA Film Festival’s diverse slate also include 41 short films and 10 short episodic works representing 26 countries. Across the competition categories, 42% of the films are directed by women and 39% by people of color. More...
Dino-Ray Ramos | Deadline Hollywood The 14th annual Fantastic Fest pulls from all over the globe to bring audiences the best in horror, sci-fi, cultish, and bizarre when it comes to film. Right out of the gate, the first wave of films impresses with the J.J....
Venezia 75 Competition An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres. (There are 21 this year) The Mountain, dir: Rick Alverson Doubles Vies, dir: Olivier Assayas The Sisters Brothers, dir: Jacques Audiard...
Get ready for the ultimate Blade 20th Anniversary Celebration! Screening Blade and Blade 2 followed by a special Blade panel. Meet cast members from this Marvel cult classic and join fans like yourself for the Ultimate Day Walker Experience! Exeperience Blade like...
by Nancy Tartaglione | Deadline Hollywood The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its roster of Gala and Special Presentations screenings for the 2018 edition which runs September 6-16. Among the world premieres are Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy starring Steve...
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by Trey Mangum | Shadow and Act The Tribeca Film Festival announced its 2018 lineup Wednesday. This year’s festival takes place April 18 – 29. It has a record 44 films directed by women – 46% of the 96 titles – the highest percentage in the Festival’s history....
by Dino-Ray Ramos, Anthony D’Alessandro and Matt Grobar | Deadline Hollywood Get Out took home the top prize of Best Feature tonight at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Peele also took home the trophy for Best Director in what could possibly be one of the...
from Shadow and Act… The lineup has been announced for the 25th SXSW South by Southwest Conference and Festival. The festival runs from March 9 to March 18 in Austin, Texas. Feature films are placed into 12 categories: Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary...
Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act The list continues to get shorter, as new information is revealed, and we are now at the end of the journey with this being the final list, less than a month (Tuesday, January 23, 2018) before the Academy announces the nominees for the...
BAM is proud to screen Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, one of the most anticipated movies of 2018. But the path for Ryan Coogler’s film was laid by an undersung cadre of black screen heroes and heroines who challenged establishment power structures by way of their...
Dave McNary | Variety The Directors Guild of America has nominated Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”), Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”), Martin McDonaugh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), Christopher Nolan (“Dunkirk”), and Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) for its...
The 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award nominees were announced Wednesday, December 13, 2017. It was also announced that Morgan Freeman would be the recipient of the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award. Below is the complete list of the Theatrical Motion Picture...
Trey Mangum | Shadow and Act Sundance Institute announced the feature films that will be screened at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, held in Park City, Salt Lake City at at Sundance Mountain Resort, from January 18–28. For the 2018 Festival, 110 feature-length films...
Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominees were announced earlier today, and, as we expected, Jordan Peele’s Get Out is well represented, with nominations in 5 different categories, including Best Feature, Best Director,...
Peter White | Deadline Hollywood “The Cannes Film Festival will start one day earlier than in previous years but will run for the same length of time, according to the organisers. The 71st Festival de Cannes will begin on Tuesday, May 8 and run until Saturday May 19,...
Patrick Hipes | Deadline Hollywood Sony Pictures Classics’ Call Me By Your Name, A24’s The Disaster Artist and Entertainment Studios’ Hostiles have been set as the Centerpiece Galas for this year’s AFI Fest, which runs November 9-16. The festival also said it is...
Gordon Cox | Variety “Get Out,” writer-director Jordan Peele’s surprise smash of a scary movie, led the pack of nominations for the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s annual ceremony honoring indie film. “Get Out” scored a nod for best feature, along...
Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act From Friday, November 10 through Thursday, November 16, BAMcinématek in Brooklyn, NY will present the screening series Strange Victories: Black Soldiers and World War II, a program inspired by the release of Dee Rees’...
VENUE: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NYC DATE & TIME: Through October 16, 2017 (see schedule) DESCRIPTION: Black Intimacy explores the ways in which black familial, romantic, and platonic relationships have been portrayed onscreen, with a particular focus on...
Anita Busch | Deadline Hollywood Filmmaker Walter Hill and comedian/filmmaker Keenen Ivory Wayans are both being honored this year in Austin at the annual Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference. Hill, whose film career goes back decades with such films as The...
Kristopher Tapley | Variety Writer-director Charles Burnett, cinematographer Owen Roizman, actor Donald Sutherland, and director Agnes Varda will receive honorary Oscars this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. The prizes will be...
VENUE: Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street in Brooklyn – Directions DATE & TIME: Saturday, October 7, 2017, 6:30 pm DESCRIPTION: African Voices cordially invites you to join us for a fun and inspiring evening paying tribute to three phenomenal women...
Joe Utichi | Deadline Hollywood The 61st BFI London Film Festival has announced its full lineup for the 2017 festival. Running October 4-16, the festival will screen 242 films with 29 world premieres, 8 international premieres and 34 European premieres. There will be...
Sergio Mims | Shadow and Act The 53rd annual Chicago International Film Festival announced a preview of the first 20 films confirmed out of some 120 feature films and shorts planned for this year’s festival which runs from October 12-26. And of the first 20...
Gordon Cox | Variety The New York Film Festival has announced the full list of films on its tightly curated main slate — and the roster shows just how quickly streaming services have become major players in the film industry, with all three of the previously announced...
By Nick Vivarelli | Variety ROME — Darren Aronofsky’s horror thriller “Mother!” and new films by George Clooney and Guillermo del Toro will world premiere at the 74th Venice Film Festival, along with hotly anticipated titles from directors such as France’s Abdellatif...
from Deadline Hollywood Living up to its stature as the premier international awards-season launch pad, The Toronto Film Festival today unveiled the first part of its slate that is strong, adventurous and chock-full of depictions of adversity and human struggle. TIFF...
from Shadow and Act Event: 2017 Capital City Black Film Festival Date: August 17-20, 2017 Location: Austin, TX The Capital City Black Film Festival (CCBFF) – celebrating its 5th anniversary showing the best in indie black cinema – today announced that...
The Urban Action Showcase and Expo (UASE) is the premier all-action experiential entertainment platform celebrating diversity and honoring the past, present and future multicultural achievements within the blockbuster Action genre including Adventure, Fantasy,...
from Shadow and Act In collaboration with Cultural Services Of The French Embassy, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is presenting the very first North American retrospective of Moustapha Alassane (1942–2015), a pioneer of populist cinema in newly independent Niger in...
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;...
from Variety.com Event: 89th Annual Oscar Awards Date: February 26, 2017 Location: Hollywood, California Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs was joined by Demian Bichir, Dustin Lance Black, Glenn Close, Guillermo del Toro, Marcia Gay Harden, Terrence Howard,...
from Shadow and Act The Fifth Annual Toronto Black Film Festival (#TBFF17) has announced that Isaiah Washington will be the Ambassador of the 2017 installment of the Canadian festival. Washington will kick off the festival as Guest Speaker during its Opening Night...
The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) announced today that Ncredible Entertainment’s KING OF THE DANCEHALL, written and directed by Nick Cannon, will screen as the Opening Night Film at PAFF 25. The film will screen Thursday February 9 at 8pm at the Directors...
from Shadow and Act Actor, musician, activist, and humanitarian Harry Belafonte will turn 90-years-old on March 1, 2017. In celebration, Museum of the Moving Image in NYC will pay tribute to his legendary career as an artist and activist, albeit about a month early,...
by Sergio Mims | Shadow & Act Event: 2nd Annual Black Film, British Cinema Conference Date: May 18-19, 2017 Location: the University of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, London England The two day event, which will run from May 18-19, will discuss and...
from Shadow & Act Event: American Black Film Institute’s New, Next, Now Legend Oscar Week gala Date: February 24, 2017 Location: Hollywood Loews Hotel, Los Angeles, California Angela Bassett will be honored with the “Reel Icon” award by the American Black...
Date: February 19, 2017 Location: Edison Ballroom, New York, New York and in Los Angeles, California at the Beverly Hilton Host: Lewis Black Description: The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio,...
Date: March 10–19, 2017 Location: Austin, TX Description: For nine days in March, creatives of all stripes gather for the acclaimed SXSW Film Program to celebrate raw innovation and emerging talent both behind and in front of the camera. Now in its 24th year, the 2017...
Date: June 14-18, 2017 Venue: Miami, Florida The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) announced today that actress Regina Hall has been selected as its 2017 celebrity ambassador. The ABFF will celebrate its 21st year with a lineup of film screenings and expanded...
VENUE: Park City,- Utah DATE: January 19 – 29, 2017 Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides and preserves the space for artists in film, theatre and new media to create and thrive. Artist programs offer...
VENUE: BAFTA’s headquarters, 195 Piccadilly in London DATE: January 15, 2017 The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced today that BAFTA-nominated actress Viola Davis will discuss her craft and career at a special ‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures’ event...
VENUE: Karel Doormanstraat 278b, 3012 GP, Rotterdam, The Netherlands DATE: January 25 – February 5, 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) offers a high quality line-up of carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, short films and...
Nominees were announced for the 48th NAACP Image Awards are in. Winners will be announced on February 11, 2017 at a ceremony airing live on TV One. Anthony Anderson will return as host. ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR Beyoncé Knowles Viola Davis Regina King Dwayne “The Rock”...
VENUE: Magnolia Tree Center, 677 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11216 DATE & TIME: December 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m. ADMISSION: Free DESCRIPTION: Beyond the Cut celebrates storytelling perspectives of these creatives, which have included film directors Shaka King...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: November 2, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Shirley Chisholm was the first African American to seek the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1972. Faced with...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims One of the most acclaimed and successful DVD sets of the year was Kino Lorber’s collection “The Pioneers of African American Cinema.” The five disc set curated by historians Prof. Jacqueline Najuma Stewart of the University of Chicago...
from Shadow & Act A slate of groundbreaking Caribbean films along with a line-up of adventurous musicians, artists and DJs will introduce Miami audiences to the cutting edge of the Caribbean at the inaugural Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival, taking place from...
from Shadow & Act Unfortunately this is only for New Yorkers, kicking off tomorrow, September 9, for a 1-week run through the 15th, at Film Society of Lincoln Center; although it may travel. Charles Burnett became known to world cinema when his 1978 UCLA thesis...
VENUE: Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room at the Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens. DATE: Saturday, September 24 at 4:30PM TOTAL RUNNING TIME: approximately 90 minutes New York Women in Film & Television’s (NYWIFT) Women’s Film...
VENUE: AMC Empire 25 in midtown Manhattan, with Opening Night at the SVA Theater in Chelsea in NYC. DATE: September 21 – 25, 2016 The Urbanworld Film Festival, founded in 1997 by Stacy Spikes, is the largest internationally competitive festival of its kind, hosted in...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture – 515 Malcolm X Blvd., New York, NY 10027 – View Map DATE & TIME: Friday, October 14, 6:30 pm Add to Calendar DESCRIPTION: On Friday, Oct. 14, 6:30 pm, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival...
from Shadow & Act The Milwaukee Film Festival Announces Black Lens Program Lineup For our readers in Milwaukee… a program of films at the upcoming Milwaukee Film Festival that should interest you – some of them indie films you may not get to see in a theatrical...
from Shadow & Act The 14th Annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF), presented by Run&Shoot Filmworks, to be held from August 8–13, 2016, will feature a slate of high-caliber films from emergent filmmakers, panels, conversations and...
Celebrating our 4th year, the UASE will continue to celebrate the multicultural achievements in the genre of Heroes! We are excited to be celebrating over 30 years of Martial Arts Cult Clasics and Action Cinema with Big Trouble in Little China and the WMAC Masters...
From August 5 through September 1, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents the 22nd Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, celebrating the best in contemporary independent filmmaking exploring the stories, images, heritage, and history of the black experience in the U.S....
Philly’s own BlackStar Film Festival has announced its full slate of films and events for the 2016 edition. Now celebrating its fifth anniversary, the pre-eminent showcase of independent black cinema takes place Thursday, August 4 through Sunday, August 7. The 2016...
The British Urban Film Festival Awards brings together over 350 major players from film, TV, theatre, business and entertainment to celebrate the best in urban independent film Sunday 18 September, Hilton Tower Bridge, Tooley Street, London. 4.00pm – 1.00am See full...
The BronzeLens Film Festival of Atlanta, Georgia is a non-profit organization, founded in 2009, that is dedicated to bringing national and worldwide attention to Atlanta as a center for film and film production for people of color. In fact, the mission of the...
July 13, 2016 | shadowandact Today, the BFI (British Film Institute) announced a new initiative titled “Black Star,” an exhaustive program described as the UK’s largest ever season of film and television that will be dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and...
Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson BronzeLens Film Festival producers have announced the 5 distinguished women who will receive the coveted BronzeLens Women Superstars Award this year, in honor of their contributions to the film and television industry. The 5 women...
Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson Attention filmmakers from across the English-speaking Caribbean diaspora, here’s a wonderful opportunity to have your films screened at one of the higher profile film festivals in South America and the Caribbean – the trinidad+tobago...
Since its launch in 2012, the PBS Online Film Festival has featured diverse films from PBS member stations and ITVS and POV. Starting July 11, viewers can once again watch, vote and share their favorites. This year’s festival includes collaborations with a wide...
VENUE: Film Society Lincoln Center – Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St, north side, upper level DATE & TIME: Sunday, June 12, 2016 5:00PM ABOUT THE FILM: After serving eight years in prison, reformed gang leader S. Lance Ingram re-enters society and...
June 10 – 18, 2016 The 27th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival includes inspiring, topical, and provocative feature documentaries and dramas, as well as special interactive programs that grapple with the challenges of defending human rights around...
Shadow and Act | Tambay Obenson The 5th Dominican Film Festival in New York (DFFNY) announced today its official program. More than 20 films will participate in what has become the biggest celebration to the Dominican film industry outside of the Dominican Republic....
Shadow and Act | Tambay Obenson The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) announced today the lineup of over 25 narrative features, web originals, short films and documentaries that will be showcased at the Olympia Theater, Colony Theatre and Regal Cinemas in Miami...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: May 26, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Sembene! tells the story of the self-taught novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, who fought–against enormous odds–a 50-year...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: April 6, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Back in 1989, the 16mm version of James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket received stellar reviews and awards. Honored at...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: April 5, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Jackie Robinson, a two-part, four-hour film directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon, tells the story of an...
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...
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...
A little-known chapter of film history, the “race film” – funded, written, produced, directed, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color – flourished from the 1920s into the 1940s. Previously circulated only in poor-quality 16mm prints, these newly...
UPDATE: Winners marked in red Lauded by critics for its style, simplicity and genuine warmth, the Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented by SAG-AFTRA, which made its debut in 1995, has become one of the industry’s most prized honors. The only televised awards shows to...
Be Apart of the Action! Saturday, November 7, 2015 AMC Empire 25 Theaters 42nd street NYC Festival & Expo Passes Sale! *Celebrity Autographs must be purchased separately at their booth! *Note Entry to the UASE and participation in the Film Festival and Action Expo...
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is hosting the film PRIDE & GENDER: A FILM CONVERSATION On Thursday, JUNE 4, 2015 (6pm – 8pm) @ Kumble Theater / LIU Brooklyn Flatbush Ave. between DeKalb Ave. & Willoughby St. Brooklyn, NY...
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is hosting the film Losing Ground Directed by Kathleen Collins, 86 min., USA On Saturday, March 28th at 5pm @ ImageNation’s RAW SPACE 2031 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. (121st & 122nd) New...
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is seeking films directed, written or produced by women of color. Film shorts, animation, works-in-progress, narratives, features, documentaries and experimental works are eligible. Filmmakers will have...
Film festival directors create fair and balanced programs for their festivals. Notwithstanding the quality of the films, a festival with all Black films is not necessarily that interesting as a mainstream festival, but opens up the doorway of opportunity for niche...
