#hailegerima

[usfolks20-blog]

#Sankofa #HaileGerima https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FO3TZhban/?igshid=qlyh8dxtbs5

[rempress]

Never have you heard me romanticizing cinema. Cinema, for me, is a weapon. Any filmmaker who wants to go into filmmaking in this white supremacist industry is declaring war. The funny part is that Black people declare war by wanting to be a filmmaker and then play flimsy with that war.

Haile Gerima

[godardfanforever]

#tbt #sankofa #hailegerima #africandispora https://www.instagram.com/p/Br5SSzTnBki/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lw0s1xad0q15

[creativemedicinehtw]

One of the greatest Black filmmakers alive, Mr. #HaileGerima owner of @sankofadc https://www.instagram.com/p/BqV9N_pAQrt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=79ya1t2qxu9b

[negression]

(via Bush Mamas: A Black Film Gives Birth to Sociohorror)

Professor, Writer and Director Haile Gerima’s 1975 student thesis film Bush Mama premiered on the independent and student film circuit a year before I was born. I was born in the small-town Midwest: Kankakee, Illinois, a town most people have not heard of and can barely pronounce when they do. Once I was born, I was sheltered within a small-town American context where segregated, working class Blacks had license to freely indict country “honkies” for their devilish ways and country “niggers” for their shiftlessness. The worst thing was to attack or judge others who could be lower, to not work a job but to take handouts, or to leave your children behind. These were all equal sins.

To be a poor Black woman with children was not necessarily in equal category.

[darrenwysenu]

Black Filmmakers. Thank you

[kayprism]

Congrats to #BradfordYoung for his historymaking #DP #oscar nomination He is also a #howarduniversity alum. I remember our talks on campus in undergrad..He was so focused and driven. I have not seen him since that time and am not at all surprised by his success. From #selma to #arrival and the next #starwars movie. It's crazy that he's a pioneer in #2017 another student of the legendary #hailegerima

[mydearestlola]

Great night! Film screening of #AshesAndEmbers and spirited discussion with Haile Gerima and Bradford Young!!! #BlackIndependentFilm #HaileGerima #BradfordYoung #Sankofa #NMAAHC #ARRAY #AvaDuvernay #howardfilmmakers #BHM #BH365 (at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History)