Today marks the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, and the BFC/A is honoring Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez. Gomez made numerous short documentaries and newsreels for ICAIC, the Cuban national film institute, but is primarily known for her feature film De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another). Here… Read more »
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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 »
Brown Bag Talk: Nzingha Kendall
The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies presents: A Brown Bag Talk by Nzingha Kendall “En)visioning Black Female Subjectivity: A close reading of Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND & Sara Gomez’s DE CIERTA MANERA” Nzingha Kendall will provide an illuminating analysis of these important films – don’t miss it! Wednesday, February… Read more »