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The Invisibility of
Black British Film Directors
Ngozi Onwurah
Amma Asante MBE (born 13 September 1969) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, former actress, and Chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts, who was born in London to parents from Ghana. Her love for the film industry started when she received her first role in BBC’s Grange Hill.
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here are only a few Black British Filmmakers in the United Kingdom which is a disgrace in 2021. This issue takes the cloak of invisibility off and celebrates their achievements. They are:
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Maureen Blackwood best known for The Passion of Remembrance Using real and mystical landscapes, Blackwood and Julien create a visual mosaic signifying the black British experience of the 80s. Ngozi Onwurah, despite being the director of the first independent black British feature film to be released, is not a household name. For a long time, her film Welcome II The Terrordome (1995), was the only film by a black woman to have a UK release
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debbie tucker green (she spells her name in lower-case) is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director. She has written a number of plays, including born bad (2003), for which she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004.
Rungano Nyoni is a self-taught Writer / Director. She was born in Lusaka, Zambia and grew up in Wales, UK. Rungano’s first short film THE LIST won a BAFTA Cymru, her subsequent short film MWANSA THE GREAT was selected for over 100 International Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2012.
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Destiny Ekaragha Gone too far!
Clare Anyiam-Osigwe was born as Clare Eluka. She is a producer and director, known for No Shade (2018) and Windrush Stories (2020).
Destiny Ekaragha is a British film director. She is only the third British black woman, following Ngozi Onwurah, and Amma Asante to have directed a feature-length film that was given cinema distribution in the UK Transform your viewing...
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The first Jamaican narrative feature directed by a woman.
Mary Wells is an independent/freelance director, writer and producer presently based in Jamaica. She has almost 20 years experience in TV and film production and continues to do ongoing production work. She has developed, produced and directed documentaries and narratives for mainly the Caribbean region.
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ach week I’ll be inviting you into the world of black video artists. The artists range from the famous and established, to the upcoming, and the avant-garde. An Oscar-winning director, producer, and one of the most well-regarded black filmmakers of all-time. Steve McQueen is mostly known for his feature length narrative works such as 12 Years A Slave (2013) and Small Axe (2020) but few people know his seminal video artworks. Video art is a discipline that aims to experiment with video technology and manipulate viewer experiences to elicit emotion or a more visceral response. With a well coveted Turner prize win in 1999 and representing Great Britain at the 2009 Venice Biennale, McQueen’s reputation within the art world speaks for itself. But where can you start with his video art? I’d like to say you can start from the beginning but you can’t. You can’t really start anywhere as is the case with most video art. There is an air of exclusivity that galleries uphold when it Obliterating the Frame: Steve McQueen on Art and Film
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comes to bodies of work and McQueen’s work is no different. His rep, Maria Goldman Gallery have thwarted any attempts of his art films being released online. I can only leave you with his process for making films. While most filmmakers marvel in the wonder of editing and effects, McQueen revels in the opposite. He keeps us still, via the camera. He keeps the audience situated in realtime, not film time. It’s clear to see the influence of his fine art in his cinema works. Video artists typically create visceral experiences for viewers by not concealing the medium. Suspension of disbelief is not inherently necessary. By not concealing the medium, we become immersed through an uncomfortable stillness. There are many video artists that have managed to cross the boundaries into the film and Steve McQueen is the foremost example. As I try to think of an equal, I fall short. In terms of fame and video art, arguably only Andy Warhol or Yoko Ono have garnered more attention. But neither has come close to McQueen in terms of recognition within film. In a world that is only becoming more virtual, McQueen’s video art is only viewable in the physical realm. His last exhibition was at the Tate in London from August to September 2020. Hopefully, in the near future, his work will be released online and his art will furthermore garner a much larger accessible audience via cyberspace. Until then, we wait. Transform your viewing...
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Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah, a movie about the betrayal and assassination of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party. Starring GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER 2021 Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield. “You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution.” Credit: Warner Bros
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Fred Hampton Documentary (1990) COINTELPRO Black Panthers William O’Neal Fredrick Allen Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was a black activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in Chicago as chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. In this capacity, he founded the Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots, and the Young Lords, and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. In 1967, Hampton was identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a radical threat. The FBI tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation among black progressive groups and placing a counterintelligence operative in the local Panthers. In December 1969, Hampton was shot and killed in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; during the raid, Panther Mark Clark was also killed and several others were seriously wounded. In January 1970, a coroner’s jury held an inquest and ruled the deaths of Hampton and Clark to be justifiable homicide. Credit: Reelblack Transform your viewing...
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The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
A wealthy, Nigerian-American teen is pulled over by police, shot to death and immediately awakens, reliving the same day over and over, trapped in a terrifying time loop - forced to confront difficult truths about his life and himself. Credit: Wolfe Video
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Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen emerged from the South Side’s drag ball culture in the 1960s to trailblaze a path for transgender youth to follow. With positivity and polish, she overcame prejudice and traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her communit, Credit: Chicago International Film Festival Transform your viewing...
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Tribute To Cicely Tyson late Cicely Tyson OWN honours the legacy of the ore-seen interview from (1924-2021) in this never-bef on with Oprah, the 2012. In an intimate conversati actress explains the Emmy and Tony Award-winning nd her calling, shares surprising story of how she fou her most iconic roles and behind-the-scenes history of s she’s learned. Credit: reveals the biggest life lesson Oprah Winfrey Network - OWN
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Just An Old Sweet Song (1976)
OOriginally telecast September 14, 1976, as a CBS “General Electric Theater” special, Just an Old Sweet Song was the first of three pilots for Down Home, a proposed TV series created by filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Robert Hooks and Cicely Tyson star as Nate and Priscilla Simmons, the patriarch and matriarch of a middle-class Detroit family. Upon learning that their grandmother (Beah Richards) is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla pack up their kids and head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its AfricanAmerican roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings. Robert Hooks’ real-life sons (Kevin and Eric Hooks) appear as his screen sons, Junior and Highpockets. Just an Old Sweet Song was followed by two 60-minute sequels in 1978: Kinfolks (in which Madge Sinclair replaced Cicely Tyson as Priscilla Simmons) and Down Home. Alas, none of the three films yielded a weekly series. Rottentomatoes. Credit: Reelblack
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SOUL Golden Globe Winner Best Soundtrack
Everybody has a soul. Joe Gardner is about to find his. Pixar Animation Studios’ all-new feature film “Soul” introduces Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie Foxx) – a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. But one small misstep takes him from the streets of New York City to The Great Before – a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities, quirks and interests before they go to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22 (voice of Tina Fey), who has never understood the appeal of the human experience. As Joe desperately tries to show 22 what’s great about living, he may just discover the answers to some of life’s most important questions. Credit: Pixar
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Hidden Figures | Featurette: Achieving The Impossible HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big. Credit: 20th Century Studios Belgium Transform your viewing...
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The Actress who became a role model for Black Women
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he was a star of stage, screen and television, a woman who, over seven decades, came to personify the strength and dignity of the African-American woman. Cicely Tyson, who died in January this year at 96, was an inspiration who defied the racial stereotypes of the age. She refused to take parts that demeaned African Americans. “I was determined to do all I could to alter the narrative about Black people – to change the way Black women in particular were perceived, by reflecting our dignity,” she said in her autobiography Just As I Am, published just days before her death. Not only did she break new ground as an actress, garnering awards no black performer had received before, but she did it the hard way. She was born in East Harlem, the daughter of two immigrants from the Caribbean island of Nevis. Her mother was a cleaner, her father a carpenter and painter. Her parents separated when she was 10, leaving Cicely and her brother
and sister to be brought up by her strict Christian mother who wouldn’t allow her to go on dates or even go to the movies. Nevertheless, she got pregnant at 17 and had to marry the child’s father. It was not to last. Neither was it to be her only troubled marriage. What changed her life was an incident when she was 30 in New York City while she was on a lunch break from her job as a secretary. A black businessman tapped her on the shoulder, complimenting her on her good looks. In her autobiography she described the event as “a love note from heaven”, since this stranger launched her on a successful career as a fashion model. It was from there that she got her break as an actress, first in theatre. Her mother, had stopped speaking to her after she had enrolled in acting school, but changed her mind when she saw Cicely on stage. In the 1960s, she was in the original cast of French playwright Jean Genet’s The Blacks along with such other notables as Maya Angelou, James Earl Jones and Godfrey Cambridge. Transform your viewing...
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Lots of TV roles and a handful of Emmys later, her big break came with the film Sounder in 1972. In it she played the role of Rebecca Morgan, the wife of a sharecropper. When he gets imprisoned for a minor theft, she has to take on his role as well as hers - ploughing the fields, cleaning the house and raising her children, all with immense strength and dignity. She told the New York Times, “The story in Sounder is part of our history. The black woman has never been shown on the screen this way before.” The casting directors had originally told her that she was too pretty for the part yet when she was eventually offered it, she was not fazed. “I knew she was mine all along,”she said, “I was just waiting for them to find out.” 24 Transform your viewing...
Cicely Tyson became a household name on TV in 1974 with an Emmy Award-winning portrayal of a former slave in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. In the meantime, she was involved in a tempestuous relationship with the legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. She met him while he was in the process of divorcing dancer Frances Davis. Cicely thought he was going to marry her but he married someone else instead. But they got together again in 1978 and were wed three years at Bill Cosby’s house, with the ceremony conducted by Atlanta mayor Andrew Young. Tyson helped Davis to overcome his cocaine addiction but eventually tired of his philandering. In her autobiography, she recounts a tussle after discovering evidence of his infidelity. During the argument, she grabbed his hair weave. “By the time he struggled free, I was holding a whole bushel of his weave in my right hand. I hurled it onto the ground, marched out the door, and slammed it shut.” The couple divorced in 1989, two years before he died. In 1977, Cicely Tyson embraced black history again by playing Binta, the wife of Kunta Kinte in the popular mini-series Roots. Kunta Kinte was captured into slavery in west Africa and transported to America. It provided an impetus for many African Americans to research their ancestry. In other TV series she played the parts of Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman whose Underground Railroad carried many a slave to freedom.
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In 1983 Tyson successfully sued Elizabeth Taylor for loss of earnings after Taylor’s production company fired her from the Broadway revival of The Corn Is Green. In her autobiography she tells of how she later bumped into Taylor in a Beverly Hills restaurant. When Taylor asked her how much money she got, Tyson said “I raised my shoulders, thrust my nose heavenward, and announced loudly enough for the room to hear, ‘I was awarded more than a half-million dollars’.” Later films included Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café and in the critically-acclaimed period drama, The Help. In all, Cicely Tyson won three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Black Reel Awards, one Screen Guild Award, one Tony award, an honorary Academy Award and a Peabody Award. Transform your viewing...
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She received yet another honour in 2016, when Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. When his aide rang her to inform her, she thought it was a joke and hung up on him. The medal was the crowning achievement of a life and career that embodied the story of black women in America - struggling to achieve success in the face of prejudice and institutional racism. Her story has been an inspiration to many from one who cherished her legacy. She wrote, “I want to be recalled as one who squared my shoulders in the service of Black women, as one who made us walk taller and envision greater for ourselves.”
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black presence has been recorded in the ancient Greek empire from as early as the Minoans, a civilisation in Bronze Age Crete three thousand years before Christ. The Minoans established trade routes with Egypt, and there are paintings of SubSaharan Africans and Aegean people inside the tomb of Rekhmire, dating to the 14th century BC. The Ancient Greeks referred to all Black Africans as Ethiopians, from the Greek word ‘Ethiop’. This was the combination of two Greek words: aitho (αἴθω) meaning burn and ops (ὤψ) meaning face. So yes, the etymology of the word ‘Ethiopia’ literally means ‘burnt face’, referring to the darker complexion of pigmented African skin. In Greek mythology there us a man named Memnon who is an Ethiopian king, considered to be almost as skilled as the great Greek warrior Achilles. He is depicted as being a noble man, beloved by the gods, and an excellent fighter. During the Trojan War, Memnon brings his army to help defend Troy and is ultimately killed by Achilles. From the mid-15th century until 1821, Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire, a dynast of Turkish origin which spanned across south-east Europe, western and north Africa. This lasted until the Greek War of Independence in 1821, which was followed by the proclamation of the First Hellenic Republic 1822. One special remnant of Ottoman rule in Greece is the significant AfroGreek presence in the
town of Avato, in the North-East of Greece, 25 kilometres away from the city of Xanthi. The black inhabitants of the town of Avato are thought to be descended from Sudanese slaves who were brought to Greece during Ottoman rule. On the whole however, the African diaspora in Greece today stems from more recent waves of immigration. Already contending with an economic recession and high levels of unemployment, Greece has proven a complicated destination for undocumented African asylum seekers, and Greece’s struggle with the widely-named ‘migrant crisis’ has been well documented. For many migrants passing through the Mediterranean on their way to other European destinations, their journey is cut short in Greece where they remain undocumented, either in the wider populations or in migrant camps such as those on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos. In spite of the racial tensions, there are events and organisations celebrating the black, African population in Greece, particularly in the capital city of Athens. Athens has a significant African presence in the neighbourhoods of Patissia and Kypseli. The city is home to the annual event Watoto Africa, a two-day festival celebrating African culture in Athens.
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Saint Lucia is an Eastern Caribbean island nation with a pair of dramatically tapered mountains, the Pitons, on its west coast. Its coast is home to volcanic beaches, reef-diving sites, luxury resorts and fishing villages. Trails in the interior rainforest lead to waterfalls like the 15m-high Toraille, which pours over a cliff into a garden. The capital, Castries, is a popular cruise port.
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Gaslighting Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where a person or group makes someone question their sanity, perception of reality, or memories. People experiencing gaslighting often feel confused, anxious, and unable to trust themselves. The term gaslighting derives from the 1938 play and 1944 film Gaslight, in which a husband manipulates his wife into thinking she has a mental illness by dimming their gas-fueled lights and telling her she is hallucinating.
Gaslight Gaslight is a 1940 British film directed by Thorold Dickinson which stars Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton’s Gas Light (1938) – than the better-known 1944 MGM adaptation. The play had been shown on Broadway as Angel Street, so when the film was released in the United States it was given the same name. Credit The Smoking Hat 32 Transform your viewing...
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Susan Randall Randall has spent time developing products such as Oatmeal Facial Soap, Pure Jamaican Black Castor Oil, Facial Scrub and Hair Flyaway Wax Stick. Building wasn’t easy, but Randall who shares her faith anywhere she goes, said it is the foundation on which she does all things. If the business wasn’t as brisk as she wanted them to be, she said that’s when she dug deeper in the Word and reminded God of His promises to prosper His children. “I’m not one who gets discouraged easily, because I know the God I serve and I don’t believe He gave me the skill and talent to abandon me with it,” are her firm words of affirmation on her faith. Fast forward to 2021 and Randall is now shipping to a growing list of Spanish markets, all over the States and in the Caribbean. Randall, says her ultimate dream is to hit the shelves all over the world as she spreads the benefits of the Jamaican black castor.
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usan Randall grew up hearing her grandmother talking about the benefits of the Jamaican black castor oil, and she too has had the experience of seeing it do wonders for her own hair. Randall, who was born in Jamaica, but now resides in New Jersey, recalls massaging the much sought-after natural ingredient in her grandmother’s hair and watching it shine and radiate a healthy glow with each application. The Jamaican castor oil is useful for treating dandruff, moisturizing hair and treating acne among other things. In a one on one with Butterfly Magazine, Randall said it was during her childhood years that she developed an affinity for creating magic with the product and it ignited a passion to expose its many benefits to others. That desire, however, was put on pause as she shifted gears somewhat working in a Fortune 500 company for almost 20 years until it closed. Her passion for beauty came back to the forefront, and with it, the decision to start her own business. Already armed with the skills of a logistics manager, she opened Bersubriz Hair Studio in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and shortly after she started her line of the NBI (No Bootlegged Ingredients) Jamaican castor oil-based products as an effective, affordable high quality hair care and skincare product line for men, women and children. Commenting on her quest to take the product to the frontline, Randall said her major challenge was using the castor oil in a form that would have customers gravitating to it. “You and I know that the scent is horrible, and just like most of the good remedies in Jamaica, they are great but have issues…think Guinea hen weed and other great herbs,” she teased. Randall said she got creative and developed an effective, inviting and mildly fragrant product line with enhancements to bring out healthy, beautiful, magnificent hair and skin. Her products have an aroma that has consistently been described as yummy.
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Black Girl Magic is a movement founded in 2013 by blogger CaShawn Thompson. However this movement was shown worldwide in 2016 by prominent celebrities such as Ryan Destiny, Yara Shahidi, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o and Laura Harrier. This movement was created to celebrate the power and beauty of black women. 38 Transform your viewing...
Black Panther “Ryan Coogler delivered the best black superhero film of all time with Shakespearean twists, epic chase scenes, and a palpable love between the characters. It’s no wonder it had one of the biggest opening weekends ever.” Complex
Bulletproof 2 (2020) “Hilarious comedy. On screen bromance is extremely entertaining! Expect the unexpected.” - Newsproof Bulletproof 2 brings back Jack Carter and Archie Moses in this fantastic action comedy. Hilarious, charming and witty Special Agent team up together assigned to take down a powerful South African crime family. As Carter and Moses face hard tasks and enemies they must fight to stay alive. While figuring out an international multi million dollar laundering scheme.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) Black Panther is an astounding film. I believe it was very crucial for young people to see. I loved the creative use of visuals and the unpredictable storyline. Black Panther takes you to a new world of Wakanda. The film allows you to feel a part of the film and the superheros gives you a feeling of pride showing beautiful representation of strong women and men. This year we lost the incredible, talented Chadwick Boseman. After a four-year-long battle with colon cancer. A real life superhero who’s work we shall remember forever.
But it feels more than anything else to be destined for junior-high science classrooms — which, if the film reinforces anything, is a noble venue in its own right. - Vulture This film is one of my personal favourites. Heartfelt and pure. Chiwetel Ejiofor beautifully depicted the life of a 13 year old boy who deals with poverty and a difficult family life. He chases and is determined to fulfill his dream. William Kamkwamba (Maxwell Simba) does not allow his lack of education stop him from gaining wisdom from life. This film portrays love and loss and faith.
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Measure of
Faith
(2011)
Lark Voorhies | Glenn Plummer | Tiara Ashleigh Faith Donahue seems to have the picture perfect life: a great job in the church, a handsome, successful husband and wonderful friends. But Faith’s world is about to unravel in ways she never imagined. After the sudden death of her beloved grandmother, Faith receives an unexpected guest - her broke and unemployed brother. The two estranged siblings must try and mend their troubled relationship forcing each to come to terms with deeper seeded secrets and lies that will change their lives forever 40 Transform your viewing...
Father Albert 60 Minutes
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One Night with
The King (Esther The Bible Movie)
Kevin Hart
– Mum I need my rent money
Bajan Gospel
on Steel Pan Homeschooling with the Holy Ghost or not! Transform your viewing...
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Laughter
Good For The Soul
No Visitors
I know what I mean 42 Transform your viewing...
Teal Dance Hall
Following Instructions
In The Jungle
Say it loud- I’m Black and I’m Proud
The Boy
Life without the Internet
You are not going home tonight
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Last Word
The Real McCoy
Woman is the multiplier