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A Black Film Festival Undressed - A Conversation w/ African Diaspora International Film Fest Co-Founder Diarah N'daw-Spech

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • December 6, 2011 3:45 PM
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Features
Another new content feature I've long intended to incorporate into the site are profiles of black film festivals and the people at the top who run them. I think it's crucial that we get to know these men and women behind these yearly events, who invest quite a lot of time, energy, and other resources into putting their individual celebrations of black cinema together. Given how long I've been writing about black cinema on the web, I've noticed that we (as audience members, filmmakers and writers) can be rather quick to criticize black film festivals and those who run them, without really, fully understanding what happens behind the curtain, so to speak. And I say it's time to demystify some of that process, and get inside the heads of the folks who manage these sometimes mammoth annual events. 
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First-Look At Common In Sundance 2012 Entry "LUV" + New Images From Ava DuVernay's "Middle Of Nowhere"

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • December 6, 2011 3:05 PM
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  • 9 Comments
Festivals
More publicity materials from films scheduled to make their debuts at Sundance 2012 next month; both I've already profiled.
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More: Festivals, Pics

Herman Cain To Be The Subject Of A BET Documentary This Thursday

  • By Sergio
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  • December 6, 2011 2:35 PM
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  • 4 Comments
Television
It's obvious they're coming kind of late to this, especially now that he's dropped out, but BET will broadcast the documentary The Curious Case of Citizen Cain  this Thursday on the network at 9PM (8PM Central).
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Octavia Spencer Says She Beat Out Queen Latifah, Mo'Nique, Jennifer Hudson For Role In "The Help"

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • December 6, 2011 2:20 PM
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  • 6 Comments
Video
In the below interview, Anderson Cooper chats with Octavia Spencer, co-star of this summers hit The Help, as she and Viola Davis have been thrust once again into the spotlight, campaigning for trophies next year.
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More: Casting

Steven Spielberg Admits That He Softened Lesbian Sex In "The Color Purple"

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • December 6, 2011 1:38 PM
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  • 16 Comments
News
And this should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who's read Alice Walker's original novel... but just in case you haven't... Mr Speilberg says, "yeah, I toned things down, now what?"
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More: Things That Make You Go Hmm...

Halle Berry Will Play "A Jewish Woman In The 1930s" & "An Old Tribal Woman" In Wachowski/Tykwer "Cloud Atlas" Adaptation

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • December 6, 2011 12:49 PM
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  • 3 Comments
News
Some interesting tidbits about the upcoming, highly anticipated film, from a profile in yesterday's New York Times...
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More: Things That Make You Go Hmm..., Casting

The New Steel (The African American Superhero) Debuts... Maybe We'll Get Another (Better) Movie

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • December 6, 2011 11:20 AM
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  • 6 Comments
News
Comic books fans may have something to say about this I'm guessing... from Black Superhero Fan:
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More: Comics

Watch Now: Director David Felix Sutcliffe's "Adama" (Online For Only 1 More Day)

  • By Emmanuel Akitobi
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  • December 6, 2011 11:14 AM
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  • 2 Comments
Features
Producer/Director David Felix Sutcliffe and produer Su Kim's documentary, Adama, about a 16 year-old East Harlem teen suspected of connections to terrorism, premiered on public television networks last month.  For those of you who missed it, there is only 1 day left to catch it online thanks to ITVS and WORLD Compass.
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Pics Of Naomie Harris In Character On "007: Skyfall" Set

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • December 6, 2011 10:44 AM
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News
Ok, so it's not much, and I suspect there'll be more of these on-set shots popping up on the web throughout the film's production, some that will likely include Naomie Harris, but, not to worry, I won't post them all :)
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More: Pics

African Diaspora Film Fest Review - "The Story Of Lovers Rock" Educates And Inspires

  • By Tambay A. Obenson
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  • December 6, 2011 10:25 AM
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  • 0 Comments
Reviews
I'll be posting some quickie reviews of films screening at the ongoing African Diaspora Film Festival here in New York City... starting with Menelik Shabazz's The Story Of Lovers Rock, which opened the festival, but is also currently on a 1-week run at Quad Cinemas in lower Manhattan, though I believe this is its last week, so see it if/while you can. You may not get another opportunity for sometime.
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More: Festivals, Reviews

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