CBR News has learned that comic writer, animation producer and respected industry veteran Dwayne McDuffie passed away. The cause of death and specific details are unknown at this time. A native of Detroit, McDuffie officially joined the comics industry as part of Marvel Comics editorial in the late ’80s. While working on special projects for… Read more »
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Researchers Say Slaves Hid African Charms on Colonial Greenhouse in Maryland
“The greenhouse on the Maryland plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by slaves, who hid distinctly African touches within it to ward off bad spirits, researchers said. “A stone pestle to control spirits was concealed in brick ductwork… Read more »
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 4th Talent Campus Durban
Deadline for application: March 15, 2011 The 4th edition of Talent Campus Durban will take place from 22-26 July 2011, during the 32nd Durban International Film Festival (21-31 July). Talent Campus Durban is an intensive 5-day program delivered by film professionals to enhance both theoretical and practical approaches to filmmaking. Themed Africa in Motion, the… Read more »
2010: A Year with Few Blacks in U.S. Films
“Crammed into this year’s field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream detectives and animated toys. It’s a fairly diverse selection in terms of… Read more »
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival: Fellowships for Emerging Scholars of Color
2011 Festival Fellows Program April 14-17, 2011 The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Fellows program brings outstanding graduate students of color enrolled in Ph.D programs to campus during the festival to immerse in screenings, lectures, workshops, master classes, concerts, and events within an engaging, interdisciplinary, think-tank environment. The festival fellows cohort engages with Ithaca College faculty and… Read more »
Third World Newsreel Film & Video Production Workshop
The deadline for applications is Monday, March 14th, 2011. download the application form The TWN Film & Video Production Workshop is a unique “hands-on” program that provides practical skills and resources for emerging film and video makers. The Production Workshop emphasizes on the training and support of people of color who have limited resources and… Read more »
Washington University Libraries Travel Grant Competition
Travel Grant Competition The Department of Special Collections Washington University Libraries St. Louis, Missouri Application Deadline: March 15, 2011. Travel must occur between May 15, 2011 and June 30, 2012. Travel reimbursement grants of up to $1000 are available to faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and independent scholars who would like to use our collections for… Read more »
Memorial for James Spruill: February 12th
The Boston University School of Theatre in the College of Fine Arts is mourning the death of James Spruill, longtime faculty member, actor, director, producer, and activist in the African American theatre movement. Spruill died of pancreatic cancer on December 31 at the age of 73. Public Memorial: Jim, The Official Life Celebration Saturday, February… Read more »
Sundance – Reinventing Coming-Of-Age
“If anything, independent films that train a careful eye on that singular moment when someone begins to first define who they are, who they will become, are a deeply entrenched Sundance tradition. But no more. Oh, the young and troubled are still here in force, but the rules are being rewritten by filmmakers with a… Read more »
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
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 »