Democracy Now! broadcasts from Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest festival for independent cinema. One of this year’s selections that is creating a lot of buzz is a documentary called The Black Power Mixtape. The film features rare archival footage shot between 1967 and 1975 by two Swedish journalists… Read more »
New films
Desert Flower to Debut in U.S. Theaters
Desert Flower staring model Liya Kebede and actor Anthony Mackie will be released in theaters in the United States in early 2011. In 2009 the film went overseas and made its’ round in the film festival circuit. Desert Flower, directed by Sherry Horman, tells the story of Waris Dirie (Kebede), who escaped Somalia at 13… Read more »
The Tempest: An Interview with Djimon Housou by Wilson Morales
Wilson Morales: How exciting and hard was it to do a Shakespeare film? Djimon Hounsou: Well, you can imagine. I guess that people who are born with the English language being their first have a difficult time with it. So you can imagine me after five languages, this is like a foreign language all together…. Read more »
Pumzi: a new film by Wanuri Kahia
Synopsis A 20 min Sc-Fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III “The Water War”. Nature is extinct. The outside is dead. Asha lives and works as a museum curator in one of the indoor communities set up by the Maitu Council. When she receives a box in the mail containing soil,… Read more »
A Rwandan Slumdog Millionaire? Africa United
“Africa United tells the story of three Rwandan children who travel across Africa in the hope of taking part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg, but board the wrong bus and end up in a children’s refugee camp in Congo.” Yet the film’s makers “claim it’s an uplifting tale that… Read more »
For Colored Girls: October 5, 2010
Tyler Perry’s newest film, For Colored Girls, will open on October 5th. Based on Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf, this film boasts a cast of talented actors such as Janet Jackson, Kerry Washington, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise,… Read more »
Will Smith: Men in Black III
Will Smith continues his role as Agent Jay in the upcoming film, Men in Black 3. Men in Black 1 and 2 happened to be two of Columbia Pictures most successful films. Click here to read more about the continuation of the Men in Black saga.
Cherif Keita: New Documentary
Malian-born American filmmaker Chérif Keita announced in February 2010 during a visit to Durban that he is working on a sequel to his debut documentary, Oberlin-Inanda: The Life And Times Of John L Dube. A trilogy in process, Keita takes us through a historical account of Dube, the founder of the Ohlange Institute near Verulam,… Read more »
New Films for April 2010
Here is a list of some films that include Africans or African-Americans as subject matter, part of the cast, or part of the filming crew for April 2010: April 2nd Clash of the Titans Why Did I Get Married Too? 9th La Mission The Human Experience Breaking Upwards Date Night 16th The Cartel Death at… Read more »
New Release – Africa Rising: The Grassroots Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation
Women Make Movies, a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization, announces the release of a new film, Africa Rising: The Grassroots Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation. Directed by Emmy Award® winner Paula Heredia and produced by Equality Now, Africa Rising follows the story of a grassroots movement to end the 5,000 year old practice… Read more »