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BLK DOCS, New Monthly Series Dedicated to Black Documentarians, Begins Online This Month with “Wilmington on Fire”.
Started by Speller Street Films and The Luminal Theater, BLK Docs is an initiative to help build an authentic documentary film culture within the African-American community through film screenings, webinars, and more interactive film
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Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Acquires Rights To Sammy Davis, Jr. Bio
Entertainment Studios, Inc., which produces and distributes 38 television programs worldwide, making it one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations and owner of eight 24-hour HD cable networks, proudly
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Hollywood’s Movie Review: Miss Juneteenth
Miss Juneteenth is a labor of love for first-time director and Fort Worth native, Channing Godfrey
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‘Fatsani’ nominated for award in Zambia - Malawi 24 - Malawi news
Malawian movie, 'Fatsani: A Tale of Survival', has been nominated for an award at the Sotambe Film Festival in Zambia. The nomination was announced today during a virtual press conference held by organizers of the festival, Sotambe Film Institute. Fatsani has been nominated in the feature film
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Kenya: I Love Both Medicine and Acting
Gloria Kawira, 21, is a fourth year medicine and surgery student at Egerton
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Zim actress strikes gold
A ZIMBABWEAN actress based in Lagos, Nigeria, Caroline Chipwanyira has clinched a deal that will see her playing a role in two Nollywood movies in a development that she has described as “a miracle”. BY FREEMAN MAKOPA Popularly known as April Parry in the Nigerian film industry, the 20-year-old
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The New York Times Magazine and Pulitzer Prize Winner Nikole Hannah-Jones’ “1619 Project” to Become Docuseries at Hulu
According to Variety.com, a collaboration between Lionsgate Television, The New York Times, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films will create a docuseries for streaming platform Hulu based on The 1619 Pr…
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Ice Cube and Warner Bros. Fight over ‘Friday’ Franchise - Voice and Viewpoint
By Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris Ice Cube‘s Friday series is in the middle of a tug-of-war between the rapper and Warner Bros. studios. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ice Cube wants Warner Bros. to relinquish the rights to the Friday series as well as All About The Benjamins and The Players Club
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Phylicia Pearl Mpasi Says Writing Helped With Her Big Screen Debut In ‘The Color Purple’
CassiusLife spoke with Mpasi about stepping from behind the computer screen in the writer's room to in front of the camera and more. The post Phylicia Pearl Mpasi Says Writing Helped With Her Big Screen Debut In ‘The Color Purple’ appeared first on Black America Web.
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Indian Cinemas Reopen With Old Releases – The Wilmington Journal
After seven months of being shuttered, cinemas across India reopened on Oct. 15 and will screen re-releases for the first few weeks of operations. A handful of films has been announced, but most, like 'Thappad,' [...]
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Is Jay-Z Looking To Start His Own Film Production Company?
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#FreeFriday ?: Ice Cube Accuses Warner Bros. Of Halting ‘Friday’ Franchise
According to Cube, production studio Warner Bros. is pumping the breaks on the success of his Friday franchise by refusing to produce any further content bearing the cult classic's name. On Friday (Feb 26), the "Good Day" rapper took to Instagram to air out the production house for "hi-jacking the
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Free Screening & Panel of Atlanta Black Tech Mecca Film Continues to Spotlight Excellence of Emerging Filmmakers in 2020 BHERC TV Virtual Film Festival - Los Angeles Sentinel
One of the best short film festivals featuring emerging and veteran filmmakers continues through November
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DMX’s Final Film ‘Doggmen’ Will Be Completed Using CGI
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Fred McKinley Jones is certainly one of the most important Black inventors ever based on the sheer number of inventions he formulated as well as their
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Katherine Stockett’s excellent novel, The Help, is about the African American maids who worked in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. Stockett reflects the brutal realties of 20th Century slavery being carried out in pretentious southern white households that continued from
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"We will be honoring films produced after June 2019, 2020 and 2021 in order to make up for those that will not be able to be recognized this year." LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, November 30, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Following the …
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Hero now on cineplex and Amazon Prime Video - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Director Frances-Anne Solomon's award-winning feature film, Hero started streaming in Canada, the US and the UK on May 21. The film inspired by the extraordinary life of Caribbean-born Ulric Cross, will be available exclusively in Canada on Premium VOD in the Cineplex Store and Prime Video in
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Bringing Hollywood to St. Pete
Cranstan Cumberbatch on location for the filming of ‘AX2 – Quarantine.’ BY MARK PARKER, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - Local filmmaking duo Jabaar Edmond and Cranstan Cumberbatch are at it again, putting the finishing touches on their latest full-length feature, Agent X 2 - Quarantine. AX2 is the
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'Ada Omo Daddy': ‘Wedding Party’ copy that falls short in several ways
The two-hour runtime feels misused, “Ada Omo Daddy" had the potential to offer a fresh perspective on family-centric narratives but ultimately succumbs to a forced plot and lack of clarity. The post 'Ada Omo Daddy': ‘Wedding Party’ copy that falls short in several ways appeared first on Premium
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ESSENCE's 2021 Summer Screen Kings
Summer is synonymous with Blockbuster films, but with streaming platforms increasingly offering new premium content, the buzz around movie premieres this season isn't quite the same as it used to […] The post ESSENCE's 2021 Summer Screen Kings appeared first on Essence.
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Trini-born filmmaker Horace Ové knighted - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidadian filmmaker Horace Ové was knighted in the UK's annual New Year Honours on Friday becoming a knight for services to media. Ové, 82, is credited by Guinness World Records as being the first black British filmmaker to direct a feature-length film, Pressure, in 1976. It told the story
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Issa Rae To Voice Spider-Woman In ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ | MadameNoire
Issa Rae is lending her voice to the sequel of the Oscar-winning film, "Into the Spider-Verse."
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Twitter Didn't Know Whether To Be Confused Or Excited By Kirk Franklin And Lil Baby's New Song - Blavity
The announcement of a new Kirk Franklin and Lil Baby song had the internet both confused and excited on Thursday.  Moviegoers of all ages are anticipating the upcoming release of Malcolm D. Lee’s Space Jam: A New Legacy . After NBA legend Michael Jordan helped make the original 1996 film into
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Black Life Film Fest winners set to receive $5K towards film career | Atlanta Daily World
SWIRL FILMS AND MANSA PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS OF THE INAUGURAL BLACK LIFE FILM FEST Each Winner Awarded $5,000 Towards Their Journeys into the Film Industry Hundreds of Submissions Received … Continued
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