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Steal Away (2020)

Biography, Drama, General Film, History, Never Made

Biography, Drama, History

Black Intimacy @ MoMA

Events, Past Events

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NYC • Through October 16, 2017

Charles Burnett and Others Set for Academy’s Governors Awards

Awards, Events, Past Events

Writer-director Charles Burnett, cinematographer Owen Roizman, actor Donald Sutherland, and director Agnes Varda will receive honorary Oscars this year at the annual Governors Awards ceremony.

November 11, 2017 • Los Angelas, California

Week-Long NYC (Film Society) Run of ‘To Sleep with Anger’

Events, Past Events

Winner of Sundance’s Special Jury Prize and the National Society of Film Critics’ Best Screenplay award, “To Sleep with Anger” played to acclaim at the 28th New York Film Festival, and returns to the Film Society in a digital restoration created from the original negative.

September 9-15, 2016
Film Society of Lincoln Center;

Second showing: unearthing the lost history of African American cinema

Articles

Nearly 500 ‘race films’ were produced in the US between 1915 and 1952 but lost due to a combination of neglect and poor preservation, yet a new project shines spotlight on the early 20th-century films of Oscar Micheaux and others By Ashley Clark | The Guardian...

To Sleep With Anger to Screen at Venice Film Festival

Articles

By Sergio | Shadow and Act Over the past few years, the Venice Film Festival, which celebrates its 72nd anniversary in September, has presented newly restored versions of classic films in the Classics section at the festival. Yesterday their list of restored films to...

The LA rebellion: when black film-makers took on the world – and won

Articles

By Ashley Clark | The Guardian ‘It wasn’t trendy,” says Julie Dash down the line from South Carolina. “We were the broke nerds wearing $2 jelly shoes because we put all our money into film-making.” She chuckles, warm and husky. In the late 60s and early 70s, Dash was...