Today we’re highlighting the Oakland Museum of California’s All of Us or None (AOUON) archive. The archive comprises a collection of over 24,500 political posters from modern American progressive movements dating from 1965 to the present. You can check out a sample of their holdings related to African American political movements HERE. And for more… Read more »
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Call for Submissions: In-Short 2011 (Lagos) – Deadline 9/10/11
For all you aspiring filmmakers, this just in: The International Film and Broadcast Academy, in partnership with Goethe-Institut Nigeria is organizing IN-SHORT 2011.It takes place from 13 – 15 October 2011 in Lagos and will be screening international short films from different genres with a strong focus on Nigerian and German short films. The festival… Read more »
Celebrating Caribbean Music Documentaries
Did you know that June is Caribbean-American Heritage Month as well as Black Music Month? In honor of the occasion, on this last day of June, this post highlights a few recent–and one classic–documentary films featuring Caribbean music. What are your favorite Caribbean music docs? Calypso Dreams (dir: Geoffrey Dunn & Michael Horne, 2004) traces… Read more »
Zanzibar International Film Festival – Award Winners
The 14th annual Zanzibar International Film Festival wrapped up over the weekend. The festival opened on June 18 with the world premiere of Ugandan-Canadian filmmaker Phad Mutumba’s Making the Band. Click HERE for the full film program lineup. The Golden Dhow for best feature film was awarded to Kenyan Bob Nyanja’s The Rugged Priest. The… Read more »
Danny Glover visits Cuba with UNICEF
By: Arsenio Garcia, Published June 20, 2011 HAVANA, Cuba, 20 June 2011 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and internationally acclaimed actor Danny Glover visited Havana last week to attend the opening session of the regional workshop entitled ‘Cuba and the Afro-Descendant Peoples of the Americas’. The UNICEF-supported event was organized by the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute… Read more »
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: PARIAH
Dee Rees’s new film Pariah will be coming to theaters soon. No date has been set yet, but stay posted. Here’s a synopsis from Focus Features, the film’s distributor: A world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the contemporary drama is the feature debut of writer/director Dee Rees. Adepero Oduye portrays Alike (pronounced “ah-lee-kay”),… Read more »
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Hollywood Black Film Festival
The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) is currently accepting submissions for the 2011 festival, to be held October 27-30, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA. Regular submissions will be accepted from June 7 through July 24. The late deadline is August 7. HBFF welcomes narrative features, shorts, student and documentary films for its competitive program. Animation… Read more »
Kenyan Filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu – An Interview
Wanuri Kahiu’s sci-fi short, Pumzi, made a big splash at the 2010 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. Check out this interview conducted by Samantha Burton. Pumzi is available on DVD and digital download as part of Focus Features’ Africa First, Volume One compilation.
Spotlight: Black Martial Arts Films
We recently added the 2009 hit blaxploitation parody Black Dynamite to our collection. One of the trailers on the DVD was for another movie starring Michael Jai White, Blood and Bone. If you live in the New York area, you can check out Blood and Bone at the Museum of the Moving Image this Sunday,… Read more »
Congolese Film VIVA RIVA! Opens Today
Africa Movie Academy Awards winner Viva Riva! begins its U.S. theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York today. Here’s an IFC interview with the film’s director Djo Tunda Wa Munga.