My name is Bre. I have opinions.

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New Online Film Magazine Seeking Writers

Released in 1920, Within Our Gates is a race film written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, the first major African-American director. Within Our Gates has survived till today and is considered the oldest surviving film made by an African-American Director.  We pay homage to this legacy with the title of our site.

Within Our Gaze is a new online magazine looking at film and television from the millennial of color (MOC) point of view. We exist to give MOC a platform to discuss what we consume on screen. We strive to always highlight media made for and by members of our communities.

Set to launch this October we’re looking for staff writers and contributing writers.

Staff Writers

Person of Color

Age 30 and younger

Must be based in New York City area

Required to write at least two post a week

Contributing Writer

Person of Color age 30 and younger

Can be located anywhere

Required to submit at least four pieces a month.

If interested, please send an introductory email to [email protected] for more information on how to apply.

[withinourgaze-blog]

New Online Film Magazine Seeking Writers

Released in 1920, Within Our Gates is a race film written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, the first major African-American director. Within Our Gates has survived till today and is considered the oldest surviving film made by an African-American Director.  We pay homage to this legacy with the title of our site.

Within Our Gaze is a new online magazine looking at film and television from the millennial of color (MOC) point of view. We exist to give MOC a platform to discuss what we consume on screen. We strive to always highlight media made for and by members of our communities.

Set to launch this October we’re looking for staff writers and contributing writers.

Staff Writers

Person of Color

Age 30 and younger

Must be based in New York City area

Required to write at least two post a week

Contributing Writer

Person of Color age 30 and younger

Can be located anywhere

Required to submit at least four pieces a month.

If interested, please send an introductory email to [email protected] for more information on how to apply.

[lonniiii-deactivated20170829]

When will people understand this !!!!

[panafropolitics-deactivated2019]

Can’t help but feel like this is just white code for…“please get these rowdy niggas to shut up & sit down mr black president! Your our buffer zone between them, they’ll listen to you….do something about it!”

[bnsolo]

[nationalfilmsociety]

Oscar Isaac

[akinsman]

oscar isaac is routinely snubbed by the academy. things they really should have nominated him for but didn’t:

drive (2011 - supporting, plays carey mulligan’s recently out of prison husband, aka, the most compelling part of the damned film)

inside llewyn davis (2013 - lead, plays a floundering folk musician in 60s New York during one horrible week in his life)

a most violent year (2014 - lead, plays a latino business man trying to hold his oil company together in the face of theft, fraud etc.)

ex machina (2015 - supporting, plays a charismatic but terrible genius who invents AI)

like honestly, if michael fassbender or eddie redmayne or even bradley cooper had played any of these parts, they would have most certainly got the nomination. 

[lori-oh]

This year’s Miss Golden Globes, Corinne Foxx looks amazing! I love this dress!

[fiftythreecrimes]

Best part of the Golden Globes so far was Jamie’s subtle shade at Tarantino.

[blkcelebrities]

1.10.2016, Beverly Hills–Actors Jamie Foxx, Denzel Washington and Will Smith attend the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel

[fuckyeahsavagesistas-deactivate]

Kimberly Elise as Tisean “T.T.” Williams, Jada Pinkett Smith as Lida “Stony” Newsom and Queen Latifah as Cleopatra “Cleo” Sims in SET IT OFF – 1996

[yv-dark]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat the people who serve them at restaurants

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Man Shoots at Intruders, Turns Out it was a No-Knock Raid. Now He Faces the Death Penalty

On Friday, May 9, 2014, just after 5:30am in Killeen, Texas, Marvin Louis Guy was the target of a no knock raid.

The officers were looking for drugs, yet none were found in the home.  There was some questionable paraphernalia, but nothing indicative of drug dealing- or anything damning enough for a reasonable person to feel the need to take an officers life.

Likely alarmed by the men climbing through his windows at 5:30 in the morning, Guy and his wife sought to protect themselves and their property and fired on the intruders - in self defense.

Dinwiddie, along with three other officers were shot while attempting to breach the windows to the home, according to the department’s press release.

Since the shooting occurred during the break in, a reasonable person would assume they had not yet identified themselves as police officers.  How on earth is this not self defense?

Prosecutors are now seeking the death penalty against Guy. He is charged with capital murder in Dinwiddie’s death, as well as three counts of attempted capital murder for firing on the other officers during the shootout, injuring one other officer. Body armor protected others who were hit.

This is wrong on so many levels… Everything he wanted to do is to save himself, his pregnant woman and their property. That’s what the 2nd amendment was created for. But he’s a black man, and if he had been white NRA supporters would be in the streets protesting his 2nd amendment rights and his right to defend his home.

Hell if he had been white they never would have considered pressing charges.

Justice for Martin Louis Guy!

Bust it.

Here’s the petition “Please drop the Capital Murder and Attempted Murder charges against Marvin Louis Guy for the shooting death of Officer during a No-Knock Raid at his Home”.

[beautifulblackworld]

What the fuck is a no-knock raid??? They shouldn’t be allowed to do that!

[nahfamicant-deactivated20200217]

A No-Knock Raid was practice that was implemented during the War On Drugs. There are “legal” parameters for it. General speaking it is ineffective and has a strong likelihood of civilians getting shot. Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow explains it better than I can

[silent--souls]

1,913 more signatures needed

[pinkcookiedimples-deactivated20]

Teach little black girls and boys to love their hair and skin before they learn to hate it

[racialicious]

If you’re not a horror buff, you might not have realized this, but: Night of The Living Dead, the movie credited with bringing the zombie genre to life (heh) starred a Black man. In 1968.

The splendid documentary Year Of The Living Dead covers, with somewhat surprising depth, the significance of Duane Jones (above) playing Ben, who steps up as the marauding undead approach the farmhouse in which he and several white people take shelter.

It’s also observed that the film’s script does not provide for a “We need to put aside our differences” moment, though director George Romero says that was a coincidence; he just didn’t make any changes to Ben’s dialogue after casting Jones. 

The film also shows the eerie resonance of several of the movie’s scenes with the social climate of the time; to put it bluntly, the sight of a white “posse” using dogs and firearms to pursue the zombies becomes more chilling when viewed through that framework. 

Birth also chronicles the film’s rough ride from filming to production (part of the film’s post-production work was made possible by a crew member winning a chess match!) to distribution. The second photo shows the triple bill Night eventually topped in New York. How’s that for a geeky golden age?

[communistcoppola-deactivated201]

my fav lil piece of movie trivia is that george romero (director) threw the film in the truck of his car and drove to new york for a potential screening and heard on the radio that martin luther king jr was shot. 

understanding that this era was a bottle keg of political discourse adds to the historical significance and cultural impact of having a black male lead.

romero’s zombies are meant to be political. this movie is incredibly political. 

[ethanhawke]

film meme (3/10 films) // Frances Ha (2012), Dir. Noah Baumbach

I’m so embarrassed. I’m not a real person yet.

[lumierefactory-blog]

Last week I attended Lady Boss' event "Female Empowerment in the Media." As someone who is currently pursuing a career within the film industry, I was incredibly interested and excited for this event. I went with my friend Janel who is pursuing a career as a writer. I found out about this event from the website The Skint where the word feminism was never mentioned in the description. Instead it was simply described as being "a conversation about the current state of female empowerment in the media." If I had read the description on the website when I RSVP'd, I would have seen feminism riddled throughout it, so it is my fault that I went into this event not prepared for the strong feminist message.

[withinourgaze-blog]

#MCM: Crooklyn (1994)

Every Monday we’ll highlight a film set in New York that’s related to the Black film industry. Our inagural crush is dedicated to Spike Lee’s Crooklyn (1994). Zelda Harris stars as Troy in this coming of age film that takes place in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn during the summer of 1973. The film is a semi-autobiographical story co-written by Lee, his brother Cinque and his sister Joie. If you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend that you add it to you “to watch” list immediately. 

[withinourgaze-blog]

Set it Off: LA Hip-Hop on Film

Starting September 4th and running through September 8th , West Coast meets East Coast at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. BAM will be showcasing a retrospective of films that feature the music and acting talents of music visionaries from the LA scene.

The Schedule: Friday- September 4th (2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm and 9:30pm) Boyz n the Hood- September 5th (2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm and 9:30pm) Set it Off- September 6th (2pm, 6:50pm) Menace II Society- September 6th (4:40pm, 9:40pm) Poetic Justice- September 7th (2pm, 6:45pm) South Central- September 7th (4:30pm, 9:15pm) The Glass Shield- September 8th (4:30pm, 7pm and 9:30pm)

Tickets are $14 or $7 with a BAM membership (which you can score for free thanks to the IDNYC card). Students 29 and younger with a valid ID can get tickets for $10 Monday-Thursday.

For more information or to purchase tickets check out BAM’s website. 

And if you haven’t seen Straight Outta Compton yet, it’s playing at BAM as well. 

All showings are at the BAM Rose Cinemas in the Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217. Get to BAM by taking the 2,3,4,5,B,D,N,Q,R to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center, the C to Lafayette or the G to Fulton St. The B25, B26, B41, B45, B52, B63, B67 all stop within three blocks of BAM.