New Orleans native Maya Cade began her mission of curating the Black Film Archive in 2021. Her goal was to challenge the prevailing and inaccurate belief that Black films primarily revolve around slavery and trauma. Instead of shaming those who held this misconception, Cade aimed to present the truth: Black
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The critically acclaimed drama film A Thousand and One is Teyana Taylor’s first major leading role in a film. Taylor, widely known as a singer, is fully committed to taking her acting career to new heights. In A Thousand and One, Taylor stars as Inez de la Paz, a free-spirited
The gifted musician and actor Kid Cudi announced Tuesday that a project he’s been writing since 2013 is finally heading to the big screen. Teddy is Cudi’s feature directorial debut, and it is set to premiere on Netflix. “I always wanted to write my own movie, so I said f***
NEW YORK (AP) — Like many of those involved in the making of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” it’s not easy for Viola Davis to summarize what playwright August Wilson has meant to her except to answer, “Everything.” Davis’ first stage role was in Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” She
Shaun M. Mathis’s emotionally gripping film ColorBlind has been named the first place winner in JARO’s PVIFF Short Film Competition! Winners were announced Sunday, November 1st on pviffatl.com. The 20-minute drama centers on Mark, a white police officer who is plagued by guilt and remorse after he mistakenly kills an
On Monday, the first trailer for Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” was released, which features Chadwick Boseman’s final performance alongside Viola Davis. The drama film, directed by George C. Wolfe, will premiere December 18th on Netflix and in select theaters. Based on the 1982 play by August Wilson, “Ma Rainey’s
NEW YORK (AP) — The Pixar film “Soul” will skip theaters and instead premiere on Disney+ on Christmas, the Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday, sending one of the fall’s last big movies straight to streaming. The move, widely expected after the recent exodus of most major upcoming releases, marks one
Netflix has been granted the rights to Tanya Smith’s forthcoming memoir, The Ghost in the Machine, and Issa Rae will be adapting the unbelievable true story into a feature film for the streaming giant. The memoir tells the story of Smith, a middle-class Black woman from Minneapolis, and how she
A24 has released the first trailer for the Sundance award-winning film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Directed by Joe Talbot, the critically acclaimed drama tells the story of gentrification in the Bay Area, and one man’s fight to hold on to all that he loves in an ever-changing
