Sentences with phrase «black filmmakers»

In fact, in recent memory there has never been two black filmmakers atop the box office at the same time.

In this installment of our series on black film in the»70s, we look at the work of two seminal black filmmakers of the period.

«If we're talking about different films by black filmmakers coming out in a cluster, that's happened again and again in the last 30 years.»

«His father's success helped to pave the way for black filmmakers such as «Spike Lee, John Singleton and the Hudlins,» Mario said, but even more important, «I saw my dad unite behind gender, color lines, everything, before it was fashionable to do so.

Get Out's Jordan Peele is the first black filmmaker ever nominated for directing, writing, and producing in the same year.

I think it's a part of a proud black lineage of black filmmakers who are making films with black heroes... I don't think it's a trendy thing, it's something that is part of kind of a historical continuum.»

He became the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and third to helm a best - picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for Moonlight.

Peele's nods launch him into the annals of Oscars history with poignant distinction: He is only the fifth black filmmaker in 90 years to be nominated for directing.

He becomes the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and third to helm a best - picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for Moonlight.

For its 18th year supporting black filmmakers, the event will feature screenings of «Think Like a Man Too,» the season two premier of Adult Swim's «Black Dynamite» and «A Genius Leaves the Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay - Z.»

That being said, there are still plenty of talented black filmmakers out there, and I hope Marvel hires one of them to take on Black Panther.

She's a wise - cracking, comedically abusive and pot - smoking older lady, which means that Perry is playing her in drag — a fact that some other black filmmakers like Spike Lee have criticized, accusing Perry of being too uncomfortably close to racial stereotypes of the past.

Last year's monumental celebration saw black filmmakers and actors propelled to the forefront as Hollywood began a redemption narrative against #OscarsSoWhite.

Since then, Lee has produced a steady output of films, becoming arguably the most respected black filmmaker in the business.

Car Wash may be the quintessential example of this kind of film, and with a mostly African - American cast, its influence is still felt today among many aspiring Black filmmakers.

An older title brought back into circulation is All Day's expanded DVD release of Ganja and Hess (1983), which features an overly appreciative commentary with the director, co-star, cinematographer, and the film's composer, Sam Waymon, bubbling about a seminal work by independent black filmmakers that's either a lost masterpiece, or an indulgent, narrative mess to some.

After nearly a decade of me - too gangster films seeking to out - depress audiences with tales of misery and despair from life on the streets or some California hood, black filmmakers decided in the late 1990s to lighten up and start showing a black cast that wasn't getting gunned down or complaining about life in the hood with a string of romantic comedies featuring ensemble casts typically drawing from the same pool of 15 young, attractive actors.

BODY AND SOUL By Charles Musser This 1925 film reveals the formal and political radicalism of America's most prolific black filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux.

(He's only the third black filmmaker to be nominated following John Singleton for 1991's «Boyz N the Hood» and Lee Daniels for 2009's «Precious.»)

There have to be things like Blade to go with our Mudbounds, and this balance is more likely to happen when more black filmmakers can have control of their narratives.

The same bias that exists in America at large remains entrenched in both arthouse circles and mainstream Hollywood, more often than not blocking full recognition and appreciation black filmmakers, especially women.

When one asked if he thought the present cultural moment would last, where black filmmakers seem to be getting opportunities, Peele replied by launching into perhaps his most famous impression, of Barack Obama, and quoted the president: «Progress isn't a straight line,» he said.

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Join Midday host Dan Rodricks and film critics Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed — Chair, Film / Video, Stevenson University — as we discuss the current year, and years past, and look at black filmmakers over the course of movie history.

Paga?n has worked extensively as an arts technical assistance provider at Bronx Council on the Arts, IFP Market & Conference, Association of Hispanic Arts, and Black Filmmaker Foundation, and served on the board of directors of the National Association of Latino Independent

A pioneer among black filmmakers, Parks wrote and directed The Learning Tree (1969), which was based on his autobiography, and directed the popular movie Shaft (1971), which exemplified the blaxploitation genre and had an award - winning soundtrack.

This residency for screenwriting offers a two - month residency in Memphis, TN for an emerging or established black filmmaker to work on a feature film screenplay to be produced in Memphis.

Indie Memphis Black Filmmaker Residency for Screenwriting Memphis, Tennessee Deadline: April 4, 2018

It's perhaps a pity that Steve McQueen didn't get to be the first black filmmaker to win a Best Director award, but given his competition came in the form of Mexican master Alfonso Cuarón and his remarkable «Gravity», it's hard to complain.

Surely many would have preferred Detroit had been made by black filmmakers, but no one ever stepped up to tell the story.

With TIFF's influence in the awards race, this clear support of black filmmakers may help negate the overwhelming lack of diversity at the Oscars for this upcoming year.

But when I bring the story up to Coogler — the sad fact that it took three movies for a talented black filmmaker to have the opportunity to direct two white guys — he disagrees with the premise.

Get Out's Jordan Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director, and the first to score the Directing - Writing - Producing nomination hat trick.

DISRUPTION: He has succeeded as a young, black filmmaker in what is often criticized as an old, white industry.

«I'm in a really privileged position as a woman filmmaker, as a black filmmaker because at the current moment there's not a shortage of opportunity to tell the stories and that's not something that I was able to say even two years ago, three years ago,» she says.

He's working in the vein of early Spike Lee, or of Robert Townsend, whose 1987 satire Hollywood Shuffle seemed to herald a new path forward for black filmmakers.

In 1992, her name was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.

John Singleton commented that black filmmakers at major studios are not producing the same type of productions any because studio executives will not let them.

In its first weekend alone, Black Panther slashed its way through records worldwide, becoming both the highest rated superhero film ever made and the top grossing movie directed by a black filmmaker.

But the casually (and incredibly off - putting) candid remarks of an «anonymous» female veteran Academy voter inadvertently revealed that there is an incredible discomfort with praising the work of black filmmakers.

And the first film led by a black cast, directed by a black filmmaker, expected to become a global blockbuster before it even opens.

I'd be careful as well of postulating that the roughness of the piece is some sort of statement about the difficulties encountered by black filmmakers, when that way lies paternalism.

Four of five films vying for Best Documentary were made by black filmmakers, including the poignant 13th from Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to be nominated in this category.

Support this film, women filmmakers, black filmmakers, communities of color.»

I have never heard of this critic, though I think its interesting that someone pointed out that he'll rush to the defense of films made by black filmmakers, regardless of quality, and its probably true.

The forecast: A historical epic about African Americans and racism made by a black filmmaker sells for a lot of money at Sundance — the obvious comparison point is to 2016's «The Birth of a Nation.»

«Woman, Thou Art Loosed,» which opens today nationwide, is the first theatrical film in 13 years from Mr. Schultz, one of the first black filmmakers to penetrate mainstream Hollywood in the heady 1970's.

The strong opening suggests «Black Panther» will easily set a box - office record for films directed by a black filmmaker.