Celebrating Black Artists and Films
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The Black Audio Film Collective is a pioneering arts initiative founded in 1982 whose groundbreaking experimental works engaged with black popular and political culture in Britain and the black / Asian Diasporas. Black Audio Film Collective was formed by seven undergraduates in Portsmouth in 1982, and was based in Dalston, East London from 1983 to 1998.
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Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker, director, producer, writer, marketer and film distributor. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award.
American television and theatre director and Artistic Director of the renowned .
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An Afro-Latinx filmmaker, DJ, producer and director, known for . Loira also serves as the at , a premier destination for non-fiction cinema by and about communities of color. Firelight films have garnered multiple , , and awards and they provide mentorship and support programs for emerging filmmakers of color.
Seith Mann is a director and producer, known for , and .
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Writer, Director, and Producer. The first African-American to produce a feature-length film () and a sound feature-length film (), is not only a major figure in American film for these milestones, but because his oeuvre is a window into the American history and psyche regarding race and its deleterious effects on individuals and society.
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A two-time winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. She is also at .
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Born in Haiti and raised in small town USA, Numa Perrier is an actress, writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. She produces and develops TV and film projects under her production banner House of Numa. She trained in acting under Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and Polina Klimovitskaya in NYC.
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Gina won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Humanitas Prize for her work on the film .
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Dee Rees is an alumna of New York University's graduate film program and a Sundance Screenwriting & Directing Lab Fellow. In 2018, Dee became the first Black woman nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for her highly acclaimed film .
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Sankofa Film and Video was set up in the summer of 1983 by five aspiring filmmakers: , , , and . Graduates from various art colleges and polytechnics in London, they were part of a wave of black independent filmmakers who emerged in the 1980s, determined to tell their own stories in their own way.
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Christine has developed, written and/or directed movie projects for various companies including HBO Films, Magnolia Pictures, State Street Pictures, TV One and Faith Filmworks, her own independent film company.
A graduate of UCLA, Camille launched her filmmaking career with the short film "Sweet Potato Ride," executive produced by Bill Duke. She has sold screenplays to Sony, Universal, New Line, Fox TV and Disney studios and has worked with several prolific producers including Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Marc Platt, Stacey Snider, Todd Garner, Kevin Misher, Debra Chase and John Singleton.
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