#black film

Don’t Miss Our Storytelling Panel at Blackout Music & Film Festival Featuring Actress Tracee Ellis Ross, The Blacklist Founder Franklin Leonard, Actor Mo McRae, Entertainment Tonight Co-Host Kevin Frazier, Director Justin Simien and More. Presented by CBMA, the Panel Will be Moderated by Indiewire Editor-In-Chief Dana Harris. The Panel Will Center on the Importance of Diversity in Media Representation, the Power of Visual Storytelling and the Need to See the World We Live In Reflected on Screen: http://bit.ly/1NviXBK. Join Us Next Saturday at The GRAMMY Museum and Check Out these Insightful and Compelling Articles Below:

• “We need stories for and about black youth. We need stories where they are painted in the same light as their white counterparts. “I turned to books to figure out how to navigate life and relationships,” said I.W. Gregario, a founding member of the We Need Diverse Books campaign. As a result of not seeing her identity as an Asian woman represented in the literature she loved, she says she became self-hating. We live in a society that sees black kids as both less innocent and older than white children. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that “black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when white boys still benefit from the assumption that children are essentially innocent.” The U.S. Department of Education revealed in a report that black children face discrimination as early as pre-school. This systemic dehumanization has life-altering results in the case of, say, Dajerria Beckton who was tackled at a pool party, or the life-ending case of Tamir Rice” Continue Reading For Harriet’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1MHfHWX
  
• “Even before his tragic death at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson, though, Brown’s chances of being seen—or seeing himself—as a hero were already limited. The image of a young black man, prostrate in the street, is one we’re much more accustomed to seeing in Hollywood movies than we are a black man working to save humanity. Marvel Studios, the folks behind Iron Man and The Avengers, recently announced they’d be releasing Black Panther—their first black superhero movie—in 2017. It’ll be the kind of film Michael Brown saw very little of in his lifetime. It’s hardly a surprise that many people of color were thrilled by Marvel’s announcement, or that the Internet recently erupted in jubilant conversation around the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer—which opens on a black man dressed as a stormtrooper. There are huge portions of society, including the more than 50 percent that are women, who are starved for this kind of representation in our grandest forms of entertainment” Continue Reading Bright Ideas Magazine’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1EFp4hU
  
• “I am a storyteller. I write movies, short stories, and poems. I’ve spent years trying to understand the ways that narratives underscore society, how the stories we create, retell, and amplify influence our thinking, our actions, our ways of life. I cannot tell you how many times someone has had a pre-packaged idea of me before I even opened my mouth or entered a room. These people had a “black woman narrative” already constructed and were waiting for me to fulfill it. When I didn’t, they appeared confused. I just breathed and existed. But sometimes, even doing that is cause for violence and brutality. Because narratives of black beasts, black demons, of black criminals are so strong, that just breathing, and existing, might get you killed” Continue Reading Indiewire’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1E8nyKC
  

Outside the world of film and TV, few had probably ever heard the term “painting down” until earlier this month, when Warner Bros. Television apologized for wanting to use a white stuntwoman in dark-skinned makeup in its Fox TV show Gotham. The embarrassed production company said it would hire an African-American stuntwoman instead. Yet any way you color it, “painting down” is just another term for “blackface.” And it’s been happening for decades.

Read: Hollywood’s Dirty Little Secret of Putting White Stunt Doubles in Blackface

“Cause nobody but nobody can make it out here alone”

Late af but check out my first short film - 12 Minutes A Slave!

“Love Scene” Music from the film Things Never Said by Director Charles Murray … Enjoy <3

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Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991)

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Diana Ross in Mahogany (Berry Gordy - 1975)

Ali (2001)

Directed by Michael Mann

Doomsy’s Rating: 81/100

“You only know what it is to win when you’ve got everything to lose…”

Will Smith plays the true rebel of the 20th century as a man unafraid, but just that—a man. The enigma around his legend, his larger-than-life status, it all means nothing without a real human being at its center. Mann’s camera work here is impeccable as always. The opening fight sequence alone is pure, ultra-fluid Mann, creating silence in the air of the roaring crowds and calling immediate attention the galvanizing fight choreography, which is swift, balletic, and brutal, just as it should be. Boxing has never felt so raw and real on film, partly because every punch is more than just a punch but a blow to the establishment. The most important thing about doing Ali’s life justice is to avoid focusing on any one area. An extraordinary life is a series of meaningful vignettes, all filmed like fragmented images in a dream. Mann decides to forgo any narrative or biopic convention for an episodic series of events that shaped not only Ali but the world we live in today. Smith’s performance is staggering, completely disappearing into the role of a lifetime. The rest of the cast is duly committed, especially Jon Voight, giving one of the decade’s most impressive physical transformations as Howard Cosell. It must be said, I’m starting to become fairly convinced this is one of the best biopics of the 2000s and one of Michael Mann’s finest visual achievements.

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Black girl (1966), by Ousmane Sembene

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Teza (2008), directed by Haile Gerima

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Sankofa (1993) directed by Haile Gerima

Feel like watching a black made horror short? Then sit back and enjoy Part I of Blk House Media’s The Master Bedroom.  Don’t forget to share with a friend!

Part II is completely dependant on response and demand!

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and your beloved, courtesy of KiKi LayneandStephan James, as photographed by James LaxtoninBarry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk!