Reviews for the Oscar-shortlisted short docs A Love Song for Latasha, Speed Cubers, Call Center Blues, and Do Not Split.
Keep ReadingWhen so many media images favour images of Black death and trauma, films like Becoming and Hale County, This Morning, This Evening illustrate the complexities of portraying Black lives onscreen.
Keep ReadingAshley O’Shay’s Unapologetic is an inspiring ode to Black women activists. Screening at the TIFF Next Wave Festival, it's sure to motivate a new generation of voices to join the fight.
Keep Reading"It felt like I was watching freedom on the stage—these beautiful diverse bodies in motion. It felt like an opening, like I was leaning in the whole evening and it just stayed
Keep ReadingOften podcasting networks would relegate racialized stories to their race podcast, simultaneously profiting off of appearing “woke” while limiting the scope of stories that could be told and who would hear them.
Keep ReadingSpike Lee's American Utopia is a concert film of and for the moment with its documentation of David Byrne's exhilarating live, shoe-free performance.
Keep ReadingIn this time of turbulence, with cries of “defund the police” echoing throughout North America while the coronavirus rages, surely we need comedy. That’s one thing television has always done well, starting with I Love
Keep ReadingCriterion Channel's collections of films about Black experiences have a number of docs and hybrids worth exploring, including Symbiopsychtaxiplasm and Urban Rashomon.
Keep ReadingPahokee (USA, 112 min.) Dir. Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas Every now and then comes a documentary that feels like an American landmark. Pahokee is one of those films. This outstanding documentary from Patrick Bresnan
Keep ReadingSami Khan discusses his Oscar nominated short film about Ferguson activist turned politician, Bruce Franks, Jr,, capturing a powerful story from the Black Lives Matter movement on screen, and putting Franks at
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