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In film, Afrofuturism is the incorporation of black people's history and culture in science fiction film and related genres. The Guardian ' s Ashley Clark said the term Afrofuturism has "an amorphous nature" but that Afrofuturist films are "united by one key theme: the centering of the international black experience in alternate and imagined realities, whether fiction or documentary; past or ...
The L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to several dozen young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at UCLA Film School for the 20-year span between the late 1960s to the late 1980s, who went on to create independent Black art house film to ...
The term "miseducation" was coined by Carter G. Woodson to describe the process of systematically depriving African Americans of their knowledge of self. Woodson believed that miseducation was the root of the problems of the masses of the African-American community and that if the masses of the African-American community were given the correct knowledge and education from the beginning, they ...
The Affair (1995 film) Affirmations (film) Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison; Alex Cross (film) Ali (film) All About the Benjamins; All Eyez on Me (film) Almost Christmas (film) Alpha Man: The Brotherhood of MLK; American Gangster (film) Anna Lucasta (1958 film) Annie (2014 film) Antebellum (film) Anthem (film) Antwone Fisher (film ...
The most famous film with an African-American lead in 2011 was The Help. [citation needed] In the Academy Awards ceremony the following year, the film was nominated for four categories: Best Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer, along with Jessica Chastain), Best Actress (Viola Davis), and Best Picture.
Lower Learning is a 2008 American black comedy film starring Jason Biggs, Eva Longoria, Rob Corddry, Ryan Newman, Monica Potter, and Andy Pessoa. It was directed by Mark Lafferty, and written by Lafferty and Shahin Chandrasoma. The film's original score was composed by Ryan Shore.
Los Angeles non-profit The Film Collaborative has boarded Swedish director Tove Pils’ debut feature “Labor,” which is competing in the Nordic:Dox section at the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary ...
Midas Chanawe outlined in his historical survey of the development of Afrocentricity how experiences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, and legal prohibition of literacy, shared by enslaved African-Americans, followed by the experience of dual cultures (e.g., Africanisms, Americanisms), resulted in some African-Americans re-exploring their African cultural heritage rather than ...