#black filmmakers

[junior-stargazer-goke91]

Eve's Bayou (1997)

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Cinematographer: Amy Vincent

#fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors #blackactorsdaily #eves bayou #jurnee smollett #megan good #samuel l jackson #lynn whitfield #black films #black filmmakers #black directors #eve's bayou

[blkinfilm]

Crooklyn (1994)

Instagram: blkinfilm

#Crooklyn #black beauty #black culture #black cinema #90s #1994 #spikeleejoint #spike lee #rupaul #rupaul's drag race #zeldaharris #black movies #black films #black directors #black filmmakers

[robotpussy]

Theo Omambala as Maisie Blue in Siren Spirits: White Men Are Cracking Up (1994) dir. Ngozi Onwurah

#tumblr flagged and hid the og post so im reposting without the last gif 🙄 #i dont remember the tags i had on the og post ���� ffs #anyways #white men are cracking up #film #tv #<- because this is from a mini series #directed by women #directed by black women #90s #1994 #i saw this for free on BFI player but idk if ts available outside of the UK ik VPNs exist and all but u know #filmedit #byrobotpussy #gif #ask to tag #black filmmakers #black film #british cinema #women filmmakers #i need more ppl to know about this criminally forgotten miniseries like.... i need more of this #the black feminine mystique used to explore colonialism and fetishisation..... YUPPPPPP #bfi #ngozi onwurah

[theersatzcowboy]

Alma's Rainbow (1994)

Director: Ayoka Chenzira

Cinematographer: Ronald K. Gray

Costume Designer: Sidney Kai Innis

Starring: Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, and Mizan Kirby.

#alma's rainbow #1994 #female directed films #ayoka chenzira #90s films #black cinema #independent film #kim weston-moran #victoria gabrielle platt #mizan kirby #costume design #90s movies #90s aesthetic #cult classic #black films #black women #black history month #black filmmakers #female directors #woman director #black directors #35mm #brooklyn #90s black cinema #criterion channel #restoration

[pineconecowgirl]

If you, like me, wish we spent more time talking about the women of the civil rights movement, here’s a really big moment that often goes unsung: the 1969 Charleston Hospital Strike. 

Protesting discriminatory treatment, the unjust termination of 12 employees, and abysmal wages, more than 60 hospital workers, all Black, most women, went on strike for 2 months. The demonstrations they staged provoked a response of over 1,000 state troopers and members of the national guard. The movement was notably supported by Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., pictured above (front center).

The investigation of the hospital that followed found 37 instances of civil rights violation, and when the state was threatened with a $12 million cut in federal funds, they yielded, rehiring the 12 employees who had been fired and agreeing to a pay increase. 

One of the participants in the demonstrations, Madeline Anderson, since inducted to the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, made a phenomenal 30 minute documentary called “I am Somebody”. If you can find it, watch it. I was able to find a DVD at my local public library. If you’re interested in reading what I had to say about the movie, you can read my letterboxd review here.

#mine #film #documentary #documentary film #civil rights movement #black history #black history month #leftist #union #african american history #black film #black filmmakers #letterboxd #history #american history #US history #politics #wikipedia #informative #feminist #black feminism #womanism #feminism #feminist history

[formyloveoflove]

Nia DaCosta -

director of The Marvels (2023)

#the marvels #mcu #monica rambeau #captain marvel #carol danvers #ms. marvel #kamala khan #black women in film #black filmmakers

[misterallsunday030]

Updated my old letterboxd list, enjoy

Black History Month Films that more people need to see [with links] https://boxd.it/4KvYU

#black history month #black history #afrofuturism #l.a. rebellion #black filmmakers #black films #space is the place #black art #black cinema

[levixwatson]

I've been studying film alot lately and I'm finally ready to start sharing my new art. Make sure you subscribe to my new channel to catch all the new art coming out!!

#film #フィルム #black filmmakers #filmmaker #cinematography #screencaps #french new wave #luca guadagnino #portugal #35mm #canon m50 #canon eos m #sony fx3 #vintage aesthetic #french aesthetic #french riviera #magic lantern #davinci resolve #Youtube

[superselected]

Black Horror Trailer. The Blackening.

#the blackening #Black Film #Black Filmmakers

[junior-stargazer-goke91]

Rye Lane (2023)

Director: Raine Allen-Miller

Cinematographer: Olan Collardy

#fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors #rye lane #raine allen miller #david jonsson #vivian oparah #black films #black filmmakers #black directors

[alleannaharris]

Today's Black History Month illustration is of Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951), the first major Black filmmaker and the most successful Black filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century.

He wrote, produced and directed 44 films between 1919 and 1948. His films featured contemporary Black life, complex characters, and he sought to counter the negative on-screen portrayal of Black people on screen.

In 1913, he released his first novel, The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer, loosely based on his own life as a homesteader. It attracted attention from a film production company in LA, which wanted to adapt the book into a film. The deal fell through, and he decided to produce and shoot the film himself in Chicago.

Micheaux set up his own film and book publishing company, then released the film, “The Homesteader” in 1919. The silent film featured a Black man who entered a rocky marriage with a Black woman, played by actress Evelyn Preer, despite being in love with a white woman. It garnered praise from critics, and one of them called it a “historic breakthrough, a creditable, dignified achievement.”

Here’s a clip of Micheaux’s second film, “Within Our Gates” (1920), the earliest known surviving feature film directed by an African American. (Shout out to the Library of Congress website!) Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation and showed the reality of Dixie racism in 1920.

Micheaux wanted to offer audience a Black version of Hollywood movies, but because he operated under financial and technical restraints, his films were poorly lit and edited. He used non-professional actors and scenes were shot in one take, often filled with flubs.

Even though Black critics and audiences rejected his later films as racially ambivalent due to bourgeois ideologies, his films brought diverse images of Black life and social issues to the screen for the first time. His prolific career was truly groundbreaking, especially for the time he lived in.

I’ll be back on Monday with another illustration and story!

#oscar micheaux #black history month #black history month 2023 #black history facts #black filmmakers #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr

[robotpussy]

Ngozi Onwurah's White Men Are Cracking Up uses a murder mystery to explore the legacies of British colonialism and the exoticization of Black women [x]

White Men Are Cracking Up (1994) dir. Ngozi Onwurah

#film #tv #white men are cracking up #directed by black women #directed by women #black filmmakers #black film #british cinema #90s #1994 #the link to the film is in the post! hopefully it works for ppl who want to see the film :) #murder mystery #suicide mention #byrobotpussy #gif #yea i ended up using the same gifs from #my last post i got lazy! #bfi #had to add the little.... what do they call it? synopsis or whatever #ngozi onwurah

[blackqueernotables]

Raven Jackson: award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer.

#raven jackson #lgbt #black lgbt #black queer notables #lgbt filmmaker #queer filmmakers #black filmmakers

[accras]

Hot off the box office success of “Candyman” and ahead of her upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe debut with “The Marvels,” DaCosta will present her fresh take on the fabled story. “Hedda Gabler” has seen numerous adaptations on stage and screen, and in several languages, since its 1891 debut, including 1975’s “Hedda,” which earned Glenda Jackson a best actress nomination at the Academy Awards.

Produced by Gabrielle Nadig, who also produced DaCosta’s debut feature “Little Woods,” and Plan B, “Hedda Gabler” follows its titular character as she navigates a house she does not want, a marriage she feels trapped in and an ex-lover who has reappeared in her life.

#hedda gabler #Nia DaCosta #women directors #black filmmakers

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Thread of movies and tv shows by Black and POC filmmakers.

#Black filmmakers #POC filmmakers #Twitter thread

[nocticola]

BJ Britt as RJ Angel (angel of Robert Holiday) in The Holiday Stocking trailer & sneak peek (2022) 2/ 2

Directed by Roger M. Bobb; Written by Cas Sigers-Beedles

#bj britt #aos cast #the holiday stocking #nocticola art #rj angel #black filmmakers