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Noted author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was also a filmmaker, most famously of the ethnographic documentary Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 This list of African American documentary films (1930s–present) includes films that were made by African Americans , as well as films on the topic of African Americans.
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 ...
Pages in category "African-American film directors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 337 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The film was released on Netflix in September 2017. [2] In 2020, Lowman released Black Boys, a documentary that addresses the dehumanization of young Black men in America. [6] The film was released on Peacock and won numerous awards, including the Best Feature Length Documentary at the Montreal International Black Film Festival. [7]
Black women filmmakers have made contributions throughout the history of film. According to Nsenga Burton, writer for The Root , "the film industry remains overwhelmingly white and male. [ 1 ] In 2020, 74.6 percent of movie directors of theatrical films were white, showing a small decrease from the previous year. [ 2 ]
The film includes sharp memories and observations from Berry, Alicia Keys (who is one of its producers), Lena Waithe, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline Stewart, Gail Lumet Buckley (who is Lena Horne ...
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...
Ridley Scott’s production company RSA is set to revisit the Battle of Mogadishu in a new Netflix documentary, “Surviving Black Hawk Down.” The documentary, directed by Jack MacInnes ...