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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 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 ...
Foxy Brown is a 1974 American blaxploitation action film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character who takes on a gang of drug dealers who killed her boyfriend. [3] The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Truck Turner. The film uses Afrocentric references in clothing ...
In 2013, five African-American films were released (12 Years a Slave, Fruitvale Station, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Best Man Holiday and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom). [citation needed] The release of such films had a broader impact on the film industry with movie attendance by African Americans growing by thirteen percent compared to 2012. [12]
The film explores the complex legacy of Kevin Smith‘s 1997 cult classic movie “Chasing Amy” on LGBTQ people and its life-saving impact on Sav Rodgers, who makes his feature-length directing ...
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 ...
Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and history that explores the intersection of the African diaspora culture with science and technology. It addresses themes and concerns of the African diaspora through technoculture and speculative fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared interest in envisioning black futures that stem from Afro-diasporic ...