Rounding out our talks with the Black filmmakers of "Rising Voices" at Tribeca this year, Winter Dunn showed us what 'Play Hard' is all about.
The convos with "Rising Voices" in Black filmmaking continue as director Wes Andre Goodrich discusses his festival-fave short, 'Meal Ticket.'
Continuing the conversation with "Rising Voices" in Black filmmaking, director Anndi Jinelle Liggett breaks down her 'Tender Thoughts.'
We spoke to the Black filmmakers in this year's "Rising Voices" competition at Tribeca, starting with 'Bitter Leaf' director Omar S. Kamara.
Winner of 2023's AT&T Untold Stories competition at TriBeCa Festival, David Fortune spoke with us before the debut of 'Color Book' this year.
Five filmmakers from Ghetto Film School tell us what it means representing for creators of color in Red Bull's 'Establishing Shot' initiative.
Filmmaker Nick Brooks has reached a seven-figure deal for his young adult thriller 'Promise Boys,' in which three boys at a Washington, D.C., charter school investigate the murder of their principal, and learn hard truths about their education and community.
‘In West Philadelphia born and raised’ and with that a classic TV show was launched, an entertainment icon was born and the memories of 90’s kids were made forever. Now a filmmaker has taken the classic show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air starring Will Smith, James Avery, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Alfonso Ribiero, Tatyana Ali, Karyn […]
Veteran journalist, author and publicist Gil Robertson IV founded the AAFCA in 2003, well before the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and before the explosion of Black films and TV shows with Black talent in front of and behind the scenes. His vision was that Black film, and now TV, critics would have the opportunity to share their […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2016 “Moonlight” won best picture and “Hidden Figures” was the 14th highest grossing film of the year, but popular Hollywood films remained as white and male-dominated as ever. A new report from the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker Spike Lee and his companies are being sued by the directors of three union benefit plans who contend he didn’t make sufficient health and pension contributions. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Lee, Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks and Black Butterfly Productions. It claims an audit found nearly $45,000 […]
Thomas Carter has become a successful film and television director after beginning his career in front of the camera. Carter’s most notable screen role was the part of James “Hollywood” Hayward on CBS’ The White Shadow, and it was there when Carter also learned the craft of directing. Carter was born July 17, 1953 in […]
