‘Film’ Archives
Native American Youth to Diane Sawyer: We’re Not Poverty Porn via Colorlines
Last month ABC’s 20/20 aired a special they called “Children of the Plains,” that portrayed the Lakota Indian reservation as a place that only dealt with crime, unemployment, alcoholism, overcrowded trailers and crumbling schools. On Monday, young Native American [Read More]
Melvin Van Peebles Supports The Occupy Wall Street Movement With His 1971 Song From “Watermelon Man”
via Shadow and Act Famed director Melvin Van Peebles, who knows his share of controversy, decided to lend his support to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. His 1971 song “Love That’s America,” from his first Hollywood film Watermelon Man, has been used with [Read More]
Led by Danny Glover, African and Caribbean Filmmakers to Gather in Cuba
Cubasi.cu. September 12,2011. U.S. actor Danny Glover will lead a large delegation of filmmakers from Africa and the Caribbean to participate in a meeting in Havana on audiovisual production in those regions and their cultural ties and identity. Read more [Read More]
Cosby Program Seeking Black Screen Writers | News One
The Cosby Program, established by Drs. Bill and Camille Cosby, is seeking talented African-American screen writers for a 15-week program that begins early 2012. The program is not designed for beginning-level writers, though a degree in cinematic writing or [Read More]
Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself
Disclaimer: Going Deep Alert! Do not bother to listen if you are merely into celebrity worship. Actor Thandie Newton tells the story of finding her “otherness” — first, as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and then as an actor playing with many [Read More]
Winnie Mandela’s take on the movie about her life
“How would they know how I felt? They want to do exactly what the previous enemy did. They always said they knew what we thought…They carved up our country into homelands because the ‘knew’ that we wanted to live on our own as tribes in South Africa. [Read More]
