Bill Duke’s documentary “Dark Girls” will premiere on @oprah ‘s television network OWN in June.
fina-fucking-ly!!! Ive been waiting for like a year, June. Mark your calendars!!!
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Speaking of documentaries, friend of the R Dr. Mark Anthony Neal interviews Shola Lynch, the director of Free Angela Davis And Other Political Prisoners, about the flick and what documentarians face in trying to get their stories on film.
Colorlines’ Jamilah King and Jorge Rivas run down six facts about basketball in Native American communities, including the fact that Louisville Cardinal Shoni Schimmel is the subject of the documentary Off The Rez, on her struggle to become the first person from her community to go to college on an athletic scholarship.
Check out the new compilation album featuring Alabama Shakes, Bad Brains, Childish Gambino, Gary Clark Jr,Saul Williams, Van Hunt, OXYMORRONS, The Skins, The White Mandingos, & Cerebral Ballzy presented by AFROPUNK here.
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/SMACKGuide/app_354691784589640.
PS. you can now watch the AFROPUNK documentary that started it all just by liking AFROPUNK on facebook here.
“Not your typical Black History Month documentary”
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From the website:
Even Me confronts the overwhelming crisis of HIV/AIDS among older adults 50+. Defying the myth that HIV/AIDS is a gay or young person’s disease, this revealing documentary depicts the devastating impact of this epidemic on the heterosexual, older adult population and communities of color.
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(**TRIGGER WARNING: Anti-Mexican racism**)
You’ve probably seen her art—or even used at a rally! Meet artist/activist Favianna Rodriguez, co-founder of Presente.org who, among other campaigns, help oust Lou Dobbs from CNN. Part 2 of her story and the larger story of migration is here, and part 3 is here.
Negro: Finding Identity—Alex
U.S. expat Alex talks about living and finding his roots in Panama amid colorism, racism and discrimination in Panama. He expounds on the subtle but harmful ways racism manifests and its influence.
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The R And Maysles Cinema Present ‘The Loving Story’
This collaboration has been a minute in the works but, considering the cumulative—and sometimes contentious—conversations we have about the subject on the main website, we at the R couldn’t think of a more appropriate film to co-promote with Maysles Cinema.
A summary of The Loving Story, from the Maysles Institute’s website:
This Oscar-shortlisted film is the definitive account of the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage: Loving v. Virginia. Married in Washington, D.C. on June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter returned home to Virginia where their marriage was declared illegal—he was white, and she was black and Native American. Hope Ryden’s luminous, newly discovered home movie footage of the Lovings and their feisty young lawyers and rare photography by Grey Villet are stitched together in the debut feature by Full Frame Documentary Film Festival founder Nancy Buirski in a film that takes viewers behind the scenes of a pair of unlikely civil rights pioneers and their real-life love story.
The R’s Associate Editor Andrea Plaid will moderate the post-showing discussion this Sunday, December 16. The movie starts at 7:30PM, and the chat will start about 8:45PM.
Check out the R’s main site for what the critics are saying and the chance to win two free tickets to Sunday’s showing and discussion, and check here for more info. See you Sunday!
Village Voice On ‘The Loving Story’
Well-timed and well crafted in equal measures, The Loving Story is a thoughtful, terrifically intimate account of the case that dismantled this country’s anti-miscegenation laws 100 years after the abolition of slavery. The story of Virginia couple Mildred and Richard Loving’s efforts to live and love each other freely captures a critical moment in a civil rights movement whose most recent strides—for same-sex marriage—are just a few weeks old. First-time director Nancy Buirski’s focus on the constitutional tangles that brought Loving v. Virginia before the Supreme Court in 1967 also complementLincoln’s warm, wonky embrace of the democratic procedural. A wealth of archival footage gives The Loving Story an oddly modern quality.
—Michelle Orange, “The Loving Story,” 12/5/12
Maysles Cinema is pleased to be the theater to premiere Nancy Buirski’s documentary. The movie runs from now until Sunday, 12/16.
Those who will attend tomorrow’s showing will get the extra treat of talking with Buirski after the film. For more details, check here.
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Up Heartbreak Hill
Thomas and Tamara are track stars at their rural New Mexico high school. Like many teenagers, they are torn between the lure of brighter futures elsewhere and the ties that bind them to home. For these teens, however, home is an impoverished town on the Navajo reservation, and leaving means separating from family, tradition and the land that has been theirs for generations. Erica Scharf’s Up Heartbreak Hill is a moving look at a new generation of Americans struggling to be both Native and modern.
A co-production of Long Distance Films, Native American Public Telecommunications, ITVS, POV’s Diverse Voices Project and New Mexico PBS, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A co-presentation with Native American Public Telecommunications.
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