African American Cinema

African American Cinema and Diversity Speaks Series for The Los Angeles Film Festival

Lapacazo Sandoval Contributor WriterJune 8, 2017

For these extremely tall Haitian teenagers, the stakes involved in coming to the United States for a basketball scholarship are higher than the possibility of a slim shot at the pros.

Entertainment Movies

Coogler’s Creed!

Kam Williams, Staff WriterDecember 23, 2015

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler hails from the East Bay Area of Northern California. In 2011, his student film, “Fig”, which followed a young street prostitute’s fight to keep her daughter safe, won the Director’s Guild of America’s Student Filmmaker Award, as well as the HBO Short Filmmaker Award. He earned his MFA in Film and Television Production at the University of Southern California in May 2011.