"Grandma's going, so I am going too"
Short video piece on Jelani Gibson, a 16-year-old protester who traveled with his grandmother from Pontiac, Michigan
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Muslim American Slave
Islam first came to North America with slavery, yet no major studio film has centered on the life of a Muslim American slave. Ibn Said's remarkable life could be a start.
Weekend Special, August 5
The famine in the Horn of Africa has revived the debate about “starvation photography.” The blog
The new auteur in South African cinema
An Interview with film director Oliver Hermanus, who has made "Skoonheid," a film about homophobia, sexual violence and white Afrikaner masculinity. Hermanus is a coloured and black director.
The Bang Bang Club
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, "The Bang Bang Club," treats some of the Bang Bang Club's black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.
Spinning in Gauteng
Journalist/photographer Chris Parkinson, who lives in Johannesburg, has shot this short film about car spinning in
Mandela's heirs
The documentary “Dear Mandela,” about three young leaders of a shack dwellers movement in Durban, South
Hillywood
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2ZHiGmws8&w=600&h=373] The program of selected films and documentaries for this year’s Rwanda Film Festival going down
'The last photo before leaving'
Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe doing
The Redemption of General Butt-Naked
A film about former Liberian child soldier, Joshua Milton Blahyi, adds to his celebrity and his reputation as a skilled manipulator.
Pretty in Pink
One in ten young people on Cape Town's Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career - and sometime their lives - is prom, known as the matric ball.
The Russian connection
Soviet cinema had a major impact on the narratives, styles, and tone of African filmmakers.
The Best African Movie
The Congolese film, Viva Riva, is no high-minded, French-funded "cinema" — it’s a gritty gangster film.
Sierra Leone’s Own TV
An interview with the founders of a media center providing technical, artistic and vocational support to filmmakers in Freetown.
'Short Cut'
The trailer for the feature film “Short Cut” (to be directed by Norman Maake) about the
Andrew Dosunmu's 'Restless City'
I recently missed out on seeing a special screening (at BAM in Brooklyn) of “Restless City,”
Out of Africa
Vanity Fair’s June issue has a profile. of Hillary Clinton. It contains tons of information about
The first Afrikaans film at Cannes
Finally a teaser for the film “Skoonheid,” by Cape Town director, Oliver Hermanus, is now online.
The Belgian Color Bar
The filmmaker hopes Congolese in Belgium can be given a stage to offer their own history and projections of Congo.