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NICKEL BOYS – (Middleburg FF 2024) – Review by Leslie Combemale

October 23, 2024October 22, 2024 Leslie Combemale aunjanue ellis-taylor, black lives matter, Brandon Wilson, Daveed Diggs, Dozier School, Ethan Herisse, Hamish Linklater, Middleburg FF 2024, Middleburg Film Festival, Nickel Academy, ramell ross

The narrative feature of the same name was shown at Middleburg Film Festival as the closing film, and what a way to go out. An Oscar nominee for his evocative and visually compelling 2018 documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross uses the same subjective and artistic lens for this new film, his first narrative feature. Nickel Boys is shown entirely from the perspectives of Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), which creates not only a very artistic vision of their experiences, but also demands the audience live their journeys with them, in all their hopeful or horrific detail.

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JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE – Brandy McDonnell reviews

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments black lives matter, dawn porter, documentaries, John Lewis: Good Trouble

Serving his 17th term as a member of Congress, the Georgia Democrat, 80, has spent more than six decades fighting for equality for Black Americans, from marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, where he was badly injured by police officers, to getting on the bus as one of the original “Freedom Riders” who protested against segregation in transportation.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: dream hampton & Salima Koroma to helm Tulsa Race Massacre docs – Brandy McDonnell reports

June 10, 2020June 14, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments black lives matter, documentaries, dream hampton, salima koroma, the week in women, tulsa race massacre, twiw

At least three high-profile documentary projects are planned about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and two of them are slated to be produced and directed by African American women filmmakers.

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SELMA – Review by Sharronda Williams

June 3, 2020June 8, 2020 Sharronda Williams 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, black lives matter, black movies matter, dr martin luther king, George Floyd, Oyelowo, Selma

Ava DuVernay’s Selma, focusing on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s heroic fight for voting equality in Alabama, never shies away from showing the inherent dangers of being Black in the South. DuVernay embraces terrifying moments to honor the spirit of Dr. King and all those whose struggle, and sometimes death, became a catalyst for change. Selma is still relevant today because the fight for equality still rages on.