Founder Cassa Pancho: “All through ballet school I was really aware of the lack of black people around me. So for my dissertation I thought I would interview black women working in ballet and see what they had to say – but I couldn’t find a single black woman working in ballet, and that really stunned me. When I graduated, I decided, very naively, to do something about it myself.”
The “Frankie and Alice” trailer has been released.
The film which stars Halle Berry, Chandra Wilson, Phylicia Rashaad, and Stellan Skarsgård follows Frankie (Berry), a woman suffering with multiple personality disorder in the early 1970s.
“Frankie and Alice” opens at the Landmark Nuart Theater on December 10 and opens nationwide on Feburary 4, 2011.
Click here to view the trailer.
“Digital media have not only created a world starkly different from the world of a mere 15 years ago, they have changed the way people who live in the world think, behave, create and consume. They have facilitated a generation gap that makes the divide between Boomers and their parents narrow by comparison.”
“In an unusual move that may alter the contemporary dance landscape in New York, the boards of Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company voted unanimously Wednesday to merge their organizations, forming a combination producing and presenting entity to be called New York Live Arts.”
“England’s nine screen agencies are to be merged to create a single body called Creative England. Culture minister Ed Vaizey announced the plans today, saying the new body will be chaired by John Newbigin, and will consist of three hubs, based in the north, the Midlands and the south.”
CINEMATIQ Magazine, a new resource magazine with a distinct perspective in Black Cinema and beyond from Indie to Mainstream, is a quarterly printed publication founded and created by Angel L. Brown. CINEMATIQ will launch and be available for purchase exclusively on www.cinematiqmag.com 01-01-11.
In each issue you will find interviews, commentary, movie & film equipment reviews and how-to pieces focusing on topics from development to distribution and more.
“The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) will honor the special achievements of iconic filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, film legend Lena Horne and veteran film journalist Roger Ebert, with 2010 AAFCA Awards at its’ 2nd live ceremony on Monday, December 13, 2010, at the legendary Ebony Repertory Theatre (www.ebonyrep.org) in Los Angeles. AAFCA is the film industry’s premier African-American film critics group.”
African-American Film Critics Association
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“Carlos Moore, [Fela Kuti’s] only official biographer, claims the producers of Fela! breached his copyright by failing to credit his book, Fela: This Bitch Of A Life, as a source for the production.” Moore is asking for $5 million in damages.”
The Guardian (UK) 11/09/10
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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, she plants an old seed in it and the seed starts to germinate instantly. Asha appeals to the Council to grant her permission to investigate the possibility of life on the outside but the Council denies her exit visa. Asha breaks out of the inside community to go into the dead and derelict outside to plant the growing seedling and possibly find life on the outside.
Watch the trailer
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