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Kendra Holloway as Jay in White Knuckle (2018)

Synopsis: A horror-whodunit short film about a serial killer targeting the newcomers of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification.

Written & Directed by Xavier Coleman

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[oldfilmsflicker]

Directors Guild study: First-time TV directors overwhelmingly white

Even as shows such as “Black-ish,” “Empire” and “Cristela” broaden the diversity of characters and stories on television, the opportunities for first-time female and minority directors on TV remain limited.

Women make up only 18% of first-time directors on episodic TV shows, while minorities comprise only 13% of first-time directors, according to a study published this week by the Directors Guild of America. The study charted the five-year period from the 2009-10 season through the 2013-14 season (excluding pilots).

“Every director needs a first shot to break into the business,” said DGA President Paris Barclay in a statement. Barclay, who is African American, has directed episodes of television programs such as Fox’s “Glee,” FX’s “Sons of Anarchy” and “The Good Wife” on CBS.

He added: “What this report reveals is that studios, networks and executive producers need to challenge their own hiring practices and offer talented women and minority directors the same opportunities they are giving white males.”

The study examined the demographics of 479 people in their first television directing jobs. Of these, 87% of first-time television directors were white, while 82% were male. According to the most recent census data, only 63% of the U.S. population is white, while 51% of the U.S. population is female.

This follows another DGA study, released in September, which showed that the representation of women and minorities in prime-time episodic directing jobs has not shown improvement in recent years. Among the findings were that white males had directed 69% of all prime time episodes, with minority men accounting for only 17%, white women for 12% and minority women for a mere 2%.

The new study revealed that 28% of first-time television directors were writers prior to taking the director’s chair. Another 18% were actors and 10% were assistant directors or unit production managers.

See the full study at dga.org.

[thepowerofblackwomen]

HBO’s Insecure has mastered the cinematographic art of properly lighting black faces. Diversity matters!

[jayymars]

I love this can I please get more of this on my dash people

[christel-thoughts]

[adeles]

You are a good man, with a good heart. And it’s hard for a good man to be a king.

Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler

[bluetiefling]

She’s princess of Wakanda, but also she designs all of the new technology there. She has an innovative spirit and an innovative mind, and she wants to take Wakanda to a new place.

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With only a $5 million budget, Jordan Peele’s blockbuster hit Get Out is now the highest-grossing domestic hit ever by a black filmmaker. So far the movie has made a whopping $162.8 million in North America, beating F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton.

i need to celebrate this 

[tribeca]

“You know that feeling when you see someone getting off a bus and their body language as they disembark… you can feel everything about that experience. I think we carry so much and communicate so much through our bodies. And there’s a really kind of guttural connection to that, as simple as seeing someone smile and wanting to smile. We share so much through small gestures that we make everyday and, for me, cinema is a language to express that because it can put you in the point of view of another body like no other medium. There’s traditional dance on film but I’m also interested in this other space, which is focused on just how we communicate, and how to express that through such a vibrant and living art form.”

Read: Tribeca alumnus Anna Rose Holmer talks to Matthew Eng about her gorgeous and psychologically-astute feature directorial debut, The Fits, now back at Metrograph for a limited time only!

[chrissongzzz]

I am here for this✊🏿

Another Black Movie.

LET’S JUST BE FRIENDS – A comedy about the tragedy that dating has become. Click here to help bring this film to theaters: http://kck.st/2k6gGnT

Remember the days of black love stories? Love Jones, Brown Sugar, Love and Basketball… We do too, and we want to make a movie like that for our generation. But we can’t do it without you!

Written and Directed by Damilare Sonoiki Christian Adkins - DP Starring Keith Powers, Pepi Sonuga, Jodie Turner-Smith, Andrea Ellsworth, Khadija Shari, Cottrell Guidry, Brittany Panzer, Millana Snow and Nayriah Teshali

Art - Meryl Natow 1st AC - Josh Schnose 2nd AC - Michael Williams DIT - Kathleen McAuley DIT - Isaiah Smith 1st AD - Sierra Phelps Gaffer - Bob Good Best Boy Electric - Brice Porter Key Grip - Silvester Rios Best Boy Grip - Rapha Bola Sound Mixer - Kyle Jacobsen Sound Mixer - Andrew Pitts Set Decorator - Kyrie Chalmers Production Assistant - Stephen Aderibigbe Production Assistant - Peace Oyetunji Hair & Makeup - Eliven Quiros Andrea Espinosa - Assistant Editor

Guys Signal Boost. 

#Support Black Artist and Movie Directors.

[altonero]

14 Reblogs?????????

Y’all Lame for this . Always on Tumblr talking about support Black Business.

Yo chris , i reblog everything You Post on Your Blog.

You are Lit Asf.

[jas-is-a-babe]

I wanna see this

[blindnboujee]

Son. Really? This doesn’t even have a hundred notes? 

I was just talking to my Dad yesterday about how this generation does not date and we’re as lonely as ever. 

This is a movie I’d want to see, tbh.

[kindacountrynigga]

THIS GONNA BE GOOD AF

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i neeeeeed

[scarletswitch]

I was a wild li'l shorty, man, just like you. Runnin’ around with no shoes on when the moon was out. This one time… I run by this old… this old lady. I was runnin’, hollerin’… cuttin’ a fool, boy. This old lady, she stopped me. She said… “Running around, catching up all that light. In moonlight, black boys look blue. You blue. That’s what I gon’ call you. Blue.”

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

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“Moonlight” Star Ashton Sanders in Talks to Join Denzel Washington in “Inner City”

Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler) is directing Sony’s legal thriller, which will co-star Colin Farrell.

“Fresh off a Best Picture win for Moonlight, up-and-coming actor Ashton Sanders is in negotiations to join Denzel Washington and Colin Farrell in Dan Gilroy’s legal thriller INNER CITY, the Tracking Board has exclusively learned.

Washington will play a lawyer who discovers that his firm hasn’t always acted in accordance with his personal values, leading to an existential crisis that forces him to take extreme action.

Sanders will play an impressionable recent law school graduate who helps Washington with pro bono cases.”

[hackedmotionart]

Finally finished my Hidden Figures print! Another one you can find at ECCC! Which I need to remember to make a map of my location lol

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Barry Jenkins waits for his trophy to be engraved at the 89h Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball in Hollywood, California, on February 26, 2017.

[thepowerofblackwomen]

Viola Davis’ acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress for ‘Fences’ at the 89th Academy Awards 2017

[chrissongzzz]

Mahershala Ali becomes the first Black Muslim actor to win an #Oscars. Watch his beautiful speech.

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Beautiful…just beautiful!!!

[bob-belcher]

Viola Davis: *breathes into the mic* Me:

[buzzfeed]

The first Oscar of the night goes to Mahershala Ali, for Best Supporting Actor in Moonlight!

[audgxo]

AWWWWWWWW YAS