Tag: black experience
Family Name
What does a name signify, exactly? Growing up in Durham, North Carolina, white filmmaker Macky Alston never questioned why all of the other Alstons at his elementary school were black. Twenty-five years later, Alston decides [...]
Colors Straight Up
Vibrantly engrossing and powerful, Academy Award® nominee COLORS STRAIGHT UP offers a wholly inspiring and penetrating look at the lives of inner-city children who are beating the odds through music, acting and dancing. An in-depth [...]
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Acclaimed director Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z Boys) helms this powerful history of two of America’s deadliest gangs, offering insight into the ongoing tragedy of South Central, as well as hope for its future.
BaadAsssss Cinema
In this groundbreaking documentary from the Independent Film Channel, filmmaker Isaac Julien takes us back to the early 70s and the explosion of blaxploitation films, today one of American cinema’s most beloved cult genres. Featuring [...]
Black Is.. Black Ain't
BLACK IS… BLACK AIN’T is an unabashedly frank and honest- and at times humorous- look at black identity in America. In his final project before losing his battle with AIDS, acclaimed director Marlon Riggs challenges [...]
A Man Named Pearl
Balanced gracefully on a ladder, deftly carving with his electric hedge trimmer, Pearl Fryar has the elegance and strength of a dancer. He is, by contrast, a topiary sculptor, an artist whose medium is discarded [...]
Adam Clayton Powell
This Academy Award® (1990) nominee for Best Documentary charts the rise and fall of the man known as “Mr. Civil Rights,” one of the most powerful—and controversial—politicians in American history.