Sentences with phrase «american film community»

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This film has the potential to inspire not just the African American community, but also the broader black American community — including African, Caribbean, and Afro - Latin American immigrants — and even the African diaspora.

Earlier this month, The Atlantic listed the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown, televangelist Tim Bakker, and evangelical film critic Ted Baehr among Putin's evangelical supporters, particularly for his restrictions on Russia's LGBT community.

I would bet that the gay neighbor in the 1999 film American Beauty, who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more people's views about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Later that year, Hildebrand presented that film at the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, revealing the news to the scientific community for the first time.

Filmed practically and intimately by «Black Panther» cinematographer Rachel Morrison, the images parallel the societal examinations of American documentarians, painters and photographers who previously captured the era's poverty - stricken communities.

Does the film community do a better job than the larger American community at respecting its elder statesmen?

Gone are the days when films like Do the Right Thing and Boyz N the Hood resonate with the public about the realities of the racism and crime that tear apart largely African - American communities.

Chris Weitz, also known for directing «Twilight: New Moon», and «American Pie», stated «Demián gave his heart and soul to give a voice to the voiceless, and I am delighted that the independent film community is recognizing his performance for this film.»

Hal Ashby was one of the greatest American filmmakers of the seventies, and his death was such a loss for the film community.

The movie, which opens Friday but made its Houston debut Saturday night as part of a day - long community event celebrating the film sponsored by the Houston Museum of African American Culture that also included a welcome from Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, actually has its start in «Captain America: Civil War» two years ago.

The movie has also inspired black charities and celebrities, including actress Octavia Spencer and Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Clinton McDonald, to host free screenings of the film in African American communities.

Scott, who's coordinated but also done stunts himself on films like American Beauty and The Shawshank Redemption, got the Community job after running into former collaborators — Community director Adam Davidson and first assistant director Bob Roe — while working on the Paramount studio lot.

Washington, D.C. — In a historic year for African - Americans in films, in front of and behind the camera, the year's biggest winner at the 17th Annual Black Reel Awards was the small and intimate coming - of - age story of a young boy growing up in a tumultuous, yet nurturing community environment, searching for answers about his sexual identity in Barry Jenkins» cinematic masterwork, Moonlight.

Are you saying that if the Irish film community want the standard of Irish film to improve they have to stop viewing them as peculiarly Irish, and view them on an international scale where something like that would be compared to American Pie as opposed to I Went Down?

American actress Alison Brie relied on London - born Emily Blunt to be her «unofficial vocal coach» while filming The Five - year Engagement - because she wanted to sound exactly like the Brit.The Community star struggled to play...

The organization creates a platform for movies with universal appeal to the African - American community, while highlighting films produced, written, directed and starring, persons from the African Diaspora.

Given its African American director, Ryan Coogler, and 10 leading black stars, «Black Panther» has especially been embraced by the African American community, who see the movie's success has a potential bellwether for Hollywood to embrace more films by and featuring people of color.

If you are interested in reactions from the African - American community, there is no shortage of published reports on those who support the film and those who are outraged.

More, it confirms that Bruce Willis was outmatched by the demands of the material; that Tom Hanks was disengaged; that Melanie Griffith was badly miscast; and that Morgan Freeman was inserted as a sop to an African - American community that not only would have to endure multiple comic - effect uses of the word «nigger» during the course of the film, but would likely never go see it in the first place.

The events of the film are much more important to the African - American community, and to America as a country trying to overcome its great racial divide, but somehow Washington manages to make the film much more about the significance of the individual characters first.

Whereas the former film's exploration of the place of paranoia in the American psyche gave it unexpected depth, Mud is comparatively superficial in its treatment of a riverboat community on the Mississippi, and its main achievement was to not make me viscerally hate Matthew McConaughey (as the titular Mud).

She more than confirms buzz that she will be one of film's next major leading women, and she's working with a strong set - up for a thriller, in a community that couldn't be more relevant in the age of Occupy Wall Street, and which has lead to very mixed results on American screens (See: «Battle in Seattle»).

The meeting was hosted by Korean American community leader and film maker Nari Kye who is determined to make this program come to life.

Spanning exhibitions, publications, films, new media, and site - specific installations, funded projects include «Incense Sweaters & Ice,» an immersive installation by Los Angeles - based artist Martine Syms; «Bond: Race and the Modern City,» which is described as the first book - length study of the architect J. Max Bond Jr. (at right, on far left); «Sacred Stoops: Typological Studies of Black Congregational Spaces,» an investigation of the porch and its role in the African American community; and research exploring «emerging paradigms» in architectural education across sub-Saharan Africa.

Starting with the Black List, a documentary film exploring race, identity and achievement in the African - American community.

Kahlil Joseph's installation, m.A.A.d. (2014), remixes a 2012 album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar and sets it as the soundtrack to a dual - screen film that combines newly - shot, inherited and found news footage depicting the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Compton, powerfully conveying the everyday threat of gun violence within the community.

In addition, the exhibitions will feature The Selfish Act of Community (2012), a film that examines the role of «the self» in social dynamics by re-enacting another of Roger's group therapy sessions, in this instance bringing together a cross-section of American citizens in 1968.

Grannan's first feature film, The Nine, is a poetic and emotional study of heartbreak, loss, and euphoria — characteristics of the makeshift community of forgotten and displaced individuals living along the South Nine Street corridor in Modesto, California, where, as Grannan has said, «the American Dream comes to a dead halt.»

He had progressive ambitions — creating «spatial films» in the museum galleries with photographic reproductions of famous African American figures, videos of members of the Harlem community, and recordings of jazz music — but not a single artwork by a black (or white) artist was included.

British / Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara's new project The Humanizer places Roger Casement's extraordinary biography at the core of an imagined new Hollywood biopic, while Irish born artist Duncan Campbell is working on his first film based in the Republic of Ireland, which takes as a starting point a series of American anthropological studies of Gaelic speaking rural communities in Ireland in the 60s and 70s.

Other ongoing programs include a free printmaking workshop that provides artists and amateurs 10 weeks of instruction in basic printmaking techniques; an educational services program offering tours and discussions, led by local work - study students, for school, college and community groups visiting the museum; and poetry readings, film programs, music, dance and dramatic presentations, lectures, workshops and slide discussions on Afro - American art.

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