by Owen Gleiberman | Variety Do white filmmakers have the right to make a movie like “Detroit”? The moral right, that is? Set during the Detroit riots of 1967, the movie tells an essential true story about the brutalization of African-Americans. The fact that the...
https://youtu.be/zjauUcjAXh0 Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Roger Guenveur Smith Starring: Roger Guenveur Smith Synopsis: An adaptation of Roger Guenveur Smith’s Bessie Award-winning stage production of the same name, a powerful and timely performance using gesture,...
by Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act Launched at New York University (NYU) in 1996, the Black Genius series was conceived by author Walter Mosley, Manthia Diawara (Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs at NYU) and writer, film scholar and emeritus NYU...
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...
Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): N/A Starring: Opal Tometi, Trayvon Martin, Patrisse Cullors, Jamila Lyiscott, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Patrick Gladston Williamson, Storm Ervin, DeShaunya Ware, Berkley Hudson, Bryant Hill, Kierra Otis, Ayanna Poole, Danielle Walker, Herm...
https://youtu.be/tFzb3sz2Vww Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): N/A Starring: Spike Lee, Harry Belafonte, Bernie Sanders, Shaun King, Erica Garner, Erika Andiola, Cesar Vargas, Tessa Thompson, Susan Sarandon, Linda Sarsour, Alan Cumming, Gaby Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Dr....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXVosTPft58 Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): N/A Starring: Michael Jackson, Berry Gordy, Suzanne De Passe, Katherine Jackson, Valerie Simpson, Steven Manning, Joe Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Joe Vogel, Scott Osborn, Lee...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDR13J8fUw Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Kevon Carter Synopsis: Song “We Gotta Do Better” from the motion picture “Chi-Raq“. The footage presents Kevon Carter in a church performing a weepy, John Legend-esque piano...
https://youtu.be/rGTuuj-aTJs Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee Starring: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Jennifer Hudson, David Patrick Kelly, D.B. Sweeney, Dave Chappelle, Steve...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act It continues to be a point of contention, even among black people. Who gets to tell *our* stories? It's a guaranteed debate starter - new film or TV project is announced with black protagonist(s), but non-black creator (writer and...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act It may come as a surprise to some that Spike Lee, despite a 30-year-long career as a filmmaker, and over 20 feature films, has never won an Academy Award (unless you count the Student Academy Award he received in 1983 for his NYU...