jai tiggett

writer. producer.

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Interview: LaKeith Stanfield

“I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don’t even realize that they’re doing it, because it’s deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American… [Read more]

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Photographer Pål Laukli: Oro

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Update! 115 Films By and About Women of Color, and What We Can Learn From Them

The response was overwhelming after we posted the original list of 84 Films By and About Women of Color, which came from a recent Twitter conversation led by director Ava DuVernay. Not only was the list shared far and wide, but lots of readers weighed in with more film suggestions to add.

After tallying up the additional titles, not only has the list grown to 115 women-directed films about women of color, but there are also a number of insights we can draw from the data… (Read more)

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30 Greatest Movies That Take Place In One Day

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no love for nick & norah’s infinite playlist?

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Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene.

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Review: Five Things Missing from ‘Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B’

In many ways the project is a tale of perseverance – not of Aaliyah herself, but of a TV network determined to deliver a movie by any means necessary.

What started as an attempt to cash in on the momentum of VH1’s wildly successful TLC biopic quickly fell apart at the seams, with casting issues, challenges with music rights and opposition from pretty much everyone close to the singer. But the team persisted, beyond any reasonable sign that they should do so, and what we’re left with is a picture that fails to do the singer justice or tell a moving story… [Read more]