Project Your Voice

A Space for Aspiring Filmmakers and Movie Enthusiasts

[blackfilmmakers]

🎬Blog Introduction🎬

This is just a space I created for aspiring Black filmmakers or media enthusiasts where we can all interact and learn from one another. Even if you aren’t an aspiring filmmaker, you can still learn more about the field and hold discussions here

The purpose for this blog is to provide a space for Black people to share insight in the movie/tv industry, vent out frustrations with how media handles the image of the Black people, and share some filmmaking tips for those who may be interested to start out

Rules:

You don’t need to be Black as a requirement to interact with this blog but if I see any nonBlack people clown around I will call you out and block

DNI: Terfs/(Neo)nazis/MAPs/noMAPs/Anti-Antis/Pro-shippers/Anti-Sjw/Exclusionists

No hate speech of marginalized groups(I shouldn’t have to point this out but a lot of y’all are bold)

Don't go derailing some of these posts made by Black people talking specifically about Black-related issues. I'll call that out too

“nb ppl don’t interact”=non black ppl don’t interact. Sometimes I’ll forget to include this in the tags, but generally if a post contains slurs pertaining to Black people, or if it’s a serious discussion only for Black people to talk about amongst each other, don’t interact with the post if you aren’t Black

Extra Notes:

My main blog is @afrophunk so if I do reply to your comment under a post, it may be through this account

I might also make a separate post all together just to display and reply to your comment

Yes, we discuss about fandom spaces here as well. If it’s a way to interact with media, we’ll most likely cover it

Expect there to be arguments and hate thrown at this blog(yall know why)

Expect me to clown on White folks a lot here

Expect me to call out antiblackness from any group in general

No, you being Black/Black-mixed will not stop me from calling out the antiblackness and bigotry you set out(you know who you are)

Now if I mess up on something myself, feel free to correct me but don't be rude about it

Donation Status:

Made it to my goal! 🎉

[blackcharacterpolls]

Its not even the matter of finding a good tutorial online I feel is the issue with some of these responses. If you are someone on your art journey and overall have difficulty drawing EVERYONE'S hair, that's one thing. But even if you don't have a tutorial per say to show you can draw Black hair, its odd you don't apply your knowledge of drawing straight hair and apply that logic onto afro-textured hair. And I mean this in a way where, we all have a hairline, we all part our hair to certain degrees, you know what a braid is, you know how to SHAPE hair. What's so difficult of adding textures? Often I see people say it takes too long to get the curls in. That's silly considering most of yall don't draw every strand of straight hair either. So what's not clicking?

EXACTLYYYY THANK YOU

This idea that drawing textured hair somehow takes more time or is uniquely more difficult is way too engrained in the art community, when its really just a matter of drawing shapes in different sizes, lengths and patterns, like it's not hard at all and seeing all of these responses to "No black characters aren't harder, BUT-"

Is just like, come on yall, it doesn't matter what skill level your at, textured hair is very easy to draw.

[blackfilmmakers]

The other day, I had to tell a Winx Club fan that they gave Aisha straight hair in a fan-made transformation sequence they made of her. I was respectful; I just needed to remind everyone that Aisha has curly, afro-textured hair; it’s just very stylized to match the cartoon.

Got a response from OP saying they are aware Aisha doesn’t have straight hair, but they just didn’t know how to “do that”. 😒

While I did my best to give them the benefit of the doubt and explain how they can go about it, it’s still exhausting to hear how folks can’t just make a simple wave pattern. Like, take the wavy line you made for your straight-haired characters… and just add more of them bunched up together.

What’s so hard about this?

Animators literally gave y’all an easy way to draw Black hair for the series. How are y’all still having a hard time? Cuz now I have to assume this is a form of weaponized incompetence.

[bahnloopi]

big Rulah

[creatingblackcharacters]

Why do you guys keep focusing on argentina and its racism, like yes we know our country has and has had a culture and history of a lot of racism, specially with the current political climate and it fucking sucks, i live that day to day and it sucks, but you keep talking as if your government hasnt done things in larger scale, and isnt doing genocides and cultural erasure all over the world, i just really dont get the focus on just argentina the past month like there is so many other countries that also do and did that

I think what makes these statements so wild is again, it's implying that I DON'T talk about other countries acts of antiblackness and white supremacy.

Y'all are arguing with a person that does this... Every day. I have been running a book club for the past half year discussing white supremacy, antiblackness, and violence and genocide in America (and for a time there, globally)... Every day.

I have fought with people on here and their antiblackness from around the world, white and nonwhite. I know plenty of Black people who have had to do this. Of nonblack allies who have joined us in this fight. Who discuss these things... Every day. We talk about the antiblackness of the Dominican Republic about Haiti, we talk about Cuba, we talk about so many things within my community that may or may not be about Latin America, y'all just don't see it because you aren't around us... Almost Every day.

The only reason we've been so focused on Argentina this week has been because the response to being told "wow we saw your fans call a Black American a nigger and a monkey on live TV during a WORLD VIEWED event, I wonder what sort of culture leads to that being such a comfortable act" has been the world's largest tantrum.

Because the idea that the person they were responding to might actually DISCUSS this, has BEEN discussing this for quite some time and therefore may have intentions that were not "singling out Argentina", just... Wasn't there? The idea that this Gringa Negra just... Didn't know shit about anything and therefore MUST be an ignorant threat that is UNFAIRLY attacking JUST ARGENTINA! Like really, this woulda blew over by now otherwise. But y'all keep acting like I specifically put belt to ass for y'all, like I don't put belt to ass for anybody antiblack. So now we're gonna do some more reading about it.

[ryebreadgf]

zendaya wearing real 3000-year old ancient iranian earrings with no known track of provenance to the odyssey premiere. nasty work. even worse than the kim kardashian marilyn dress to me. they could have promoted modern greek jewelry designers but chose to do this instead. very tacky at best. especially in this geopolitical climate

[dapurinthos]

encyclopaedia iranica entry on 'ziwiye', covering the alleged discovery of the site and the subsequent plunder of it.

[eclecticopposition]

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

[black-sasuke]

Very relevant for the tumblr leftist crowd

[9nabaca]

keep this direct, because i have another post, which i honestly prefer that you reblógged instead but i don't think it's clear how important this actually is to me

i need folks to keep my game in the radar

every single month, i need to sell at least 17 copies on steam, so it makes 100 USD total, that steam will send back to me by the end of the month

VizuL is really the only source of income i have on my own, my dream is to be on the gravy train with my games, since it's all i can afford to work on

if you like narrative driven bullet hell games with different difficulty modes, or know people who do, please consider purchasing my game and future installments, you won't regret it;

if it's not your thing, please circulate the post,

if you'll talk about my game and future ones, please tag your content as #vizul, help my craft break through the noise, obrigada 💙

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Honestly gotta say I don’t respect many of you for buying into Argentina’s victimhood narrative over being called racist for having no Black football players. It’s not racist to point out it was state policy to replace Black and Indigenous peoples with European immigrants. It’s not a “yankee opinion,” I first heard this criticism from my Latin American wife. I recently heard it in a room of Latin American and Afro Latina feminists

[blackfilmmakers]

Well Jasmine wasn't dark skin but the style was saturated. Are you a fan of the original comics? Was the comics' writing better than the show to you?

She wasn't, but she was noticeably a lot darker in the pilot. And cuter. They all looked better in the pilot.

I've only read some of the comic strips, so I don't have a full idea of how they compare

From what I remember, they acted more as political cartoons. Since they don't need to make a whole plot of these subjects to fit the tv airing time, they went straight to the point as political cartoons go

[blackfilmmakers]

You DO NOT need to give every Black character you draw laid edges/baby hairs. Especially if they are children. Just because "baby" is in the name, do not assume that means children MUST have them. Learn how to draw a hairline. Learn to be okay AND NORMAL about foreheads and bald people. Learn why laid edges became a thing in the first place. Stop only ever drawing the ONE Black cultural hairstyle you saw on Pinterest, and running it to the ground like y'all did with the Killmonger locs.

[blackfilmmakers]

I couldn't stand this

It was one thing when it was at least on dolls with braids. But yeah, why were they always on the Black dolls that only had wavy hair at best 😭

It's giving, "I don't want to advertise dolls with curly/afro-textured hair, but to show we care about diversity, we'll slap on painted laid edges instead. That way these dolls can still have straight hair, and we don't have to show foreheads"

It's also ugly

[perfectday1972]

[vithcy]

Can anyone stop being an anti black racist for a moment? I want a chance at enjoying things again

[vithcy]

I'm not even kidding it's so clear that everyone sees black people and especially black women as some sort of alternate species. I'm getting into doll collection & customization videos because I've been getting into collecting myself and toys and art are supposed to bring me happiness and even there I can't escape the anti blackness. Like... you're lucky if you find a character or doll that's consistently brown skinned and carefully designed in popular brands. Collectors will always favor light skin or fantasy colors anyways. I had to watch a white creator call a custom Garnet doll "dummy thicc" and describe her in progress proportions as "female rappery" why couldn't just have said curvy? You're not funny or cool and I'm very tired

[lagtrainzzz]

i think transfems should be allowed to be good at sports.

sometimes a trans woman wins against a cis woman. sometimes a cis woman wins against another cis woman too. yet only one of them is allowed to win without facing consequences.

it's not enough to support transfems in sports if your support hinges on us being bad at them.

[ubernegro]

Every country says Transatlantic slavery is the gravest crime in humanity…except US, Israel, and Argentina

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity'

The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

Every country in Europe abstained from voting.

And you could say the Holocaust but then you’d be wrong and really need to read your history of the Transatlantic slave trade and the sheer scope of it all.

[blackfilmmakers]

Once again, (gestures)

[creatingblackcharacters]

Yeah I think I WILL tap out of that one, though. Has anyone considered being racist on live TV might have caused a problem? No? Just people pointing it out? Okay. Reblogs off lmao.

[blackfilmmakers]

It's always "support people of color from other countries, not everything is about the US!" right up until you actually hold discussions about antiblackness found worldwide

Now it's, "keep your US imperialist thoughts to yourself, we do things differently here, the US is far from perfect" like I'm aware, hence why we keep on talking about it. But apparently, if we talk about the antiblackness in our own country, we disregard everyone else. So we still have to give everyone else attention, and help spread the word from Black people of other nations, but that's also apparently wrong

And it's amazing how this happens every few months with various countries