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Caste (2021)
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25 Black Artists the Oscars Should’ve Nominated in the Last Decade
Clayton Davis | Variety The celebration of Black cinema should be year-round and the focus on embracing Black creatives in the awards community is ongoing. While the Oscars often receive the brunt of criticism for their lack of diversity among its nominees, they are...
Aggie (2020)
Biography, History
S&A’s Top 10 Filmmakers That Defined The Decade
by Shadow and Act This has been an excellent decade for the progression of Black images on screen and Black people behind the scenes. These Black filmmakers helped usher in a new era of Black cinema and defined the 2010s. 10) Tyler Perry Tyler Perry has left an...
2019 Gotham Awards Nominations
Nominations for the 29th Gotham Awards, the annual indie-heavy honors from the Independent Filmmaker Project, were unveiled Thursday morning, marking the sort of unofficial kickoff to the movie awards season.
December 2, 2019 • New York, New York
Untitled Prince Project
Biography, History, Music
Time Selects Michelle Obama for the 2019 T100
by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter | Time Magazine Loving Michelle Obama wasn’t much of a choice. It was something that came naturally, because of how she carried herself. Because she resembled us and was moving in spaces where, as black Americans, we weren’t exactly meant to...
How Akin Omotoso Brings Empathy & Authenticity To Filmmaking
by Dino-Ray Ramos | Deadline Hollywood Filmmaker Akin Omotoso’s latest film Vaya first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 to critical praise and continued to make its rounds around the festival circuit and earned him the Africa Movie Academy...
Half the Picture (2018)
Biography, History
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Every theater-bound Hollywood studio film directed by black filmmakers set for release in 2018
Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act Film directors are still overwhelmingly white and male, according to a University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report published Thursday, January 5, 2018. Titled Inclusion in the Director’s Chair, the new year...
Barry Jenkins named Film Keynote Speaker for 2018 SXSW
from Shadow & Act After debuting his first feature at SXSW years back, Barry Jenkins will be the keynote speaker at the film portion of the 2018 festival. “We are overjoyed to invite Barry Jenkins back to SXSW as a Film Keynote having presented the world premiere...