The Sundance Film Festival will be held Jan. 18 – 28, both in person in Salt Lake City, Utah and online at festival.sundance.org. Many films at Sundance 2024 feature African American talent and are directed by Black filmmakers.
A.V. Rockwell’s feature film “A Thousand to One” opens March 31 after a successful run at the Sundance Film Festival where it snagged an award. The story is about an African American single mother who’s trying to rebuild her life after a prison stint.
There are twenty one filmmakers that identify as “Black” showcasing their newest projects as directors and producers at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
I can’t stop thinking about what the late, murdered Illinois Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya) said: “Where there are people, there is power.” This is the reason, I think, the United States of America considered him dangerous and their enemy and ordered his killing.
New works by Shaka King, Octavia Butler, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, and more.
The creators of “Black Love” on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Codie and Tommy Oliver are back to share more love as their family grows and their show returns for a third season.
I’ll do my best to try and paint a picture of film, digital and television producer Effie T. Brown, but it’s hard to do with just words. Brown is the reason Podcasts were invented, meaning that her tone often reveals what she’s really saying versus what you just heard her say.
Clemency is the second feature film for writer/director Chukwu, who worked on the clemency campaign for Tyra Patterson. Patterson was wrongly accused of murder and eventually released after serving 23 years in prison.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Michael Jackson estate has sent a letter to the U.K.’s Channel 4 warning that a documentary on two men who accuse the singer of molesting them as boys violates the network’s programming guidelines. The letter written by estate attorney Howard Weitzman and released Monday to The Associated Press states that “Leaving Neverland,” set to air in early March, makes no attempt at getting a response to the accusers from Jackson’s estate, family, friends or others who have defended his reputation as required by the channel’s standards for factual programming and basic journalistic ethics. The letter
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Latest on the documentary “Leaving Neverland” which includes detailed allegations by two men that Michael Jackson sexually molested them when they were boys (all times local): 11:10 p.m. Michael Jackson’s estate is blasting a documentary that tells the stories of two men who accuse Michael Jackson of sexually molesting them when they were young boys, calling the film “tabloid character assassination.” A statement released by Jackson’s estate late Friday calls the men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, “two perjurers” — a reference to sworn statements the men gave when Jackson was alive that he
“…in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp, America’s embrace of “I believe the victims” has intensified. However, Michael Jackson’s family and ultra-loyal fan base, are having none of it.”