50 years later… ‘Passing Through’ gets its due. Mighty, weighty, fulfilling, perfect and Amazing. The soundtrack by Horace Tapscott, I get chills thinking of it. This film is the most Afrofuturist, a tale creative free black music, grounded in the everyday struggle of the exploited black worker/musician, a musical Battle of Algiers, a font of […]
Black World Cinema. Now called the Blacknuss Network, the organization itself has evolved from regular in-person events to a full-fledged alternative media syndicate, complete with an online streaming channel called blacknuss.tv. The channel goes outside the bounds of mainstream cinema, focusing on films that viewers likely haven’t seen. The organization has expanded behind the scenes […]
Young Black filmmakers are invited to apply to take part in a national project that aims to address the issue of social integration of people from Black communities in their cities. By Toronto.com The program, called Being Black in Canada, is put on by Montreal-based Fabienne Colas Foundation and is open to Black filmmakers aged […]
It took decades for Black directors to break into the industry and alter how Hollywood operated behind and in front of the camera and how it viewed Black content. Oscar Micheaux led the charge, launching his own studio in 1919. Directors such as Melvin van Peebles and Gordon Parks put Black narratives at the forefront […]
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