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Help: I Want To Connect With Black Filmmakers/Actors In Your City; Where Should I Go? What Should I Do?

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 8:03 PM
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Features

For almost as long as I've been running Shadow And Act, a question I'm asked often, whether via email, or when I meet folks in person (mostly black filmmakers and black actors) is whether I can connect them with any "support groups" for black filmmakers/actors/etc in their respective cities (although, most often, the question comes from folks living in so-called *big cities* like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and others).

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 6:29 PM
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Television

A brand new season of TV One's acclaimed series Unsung (maybe one of the best programs in their lineup) debuts tonight with Vesta Williams as its focus.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 4:40 PM
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Features

And we're off... the first month of film releases for the new year 2012, and what can we expect where *black cinema* is concerned?

By Cynthia Reid
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January 2, 2012 3:04 PM
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News

One of the great things about Twitter is when celebrities or public figures get into hot water with their words and/or actions, it affords them the opportunity to quickly, and effectively, clean up any misunderstandings which was the case for Don Cheadle recently.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 1:17 PM
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And I still don't really care for it (I didn't care for the first official poster either). This poster (nor the first one) would not get me in a theater to see the film, so thank goodness for trailers (I loved the trailer).

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 1:00 PM
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News

From a list penned by Richard Corliss, senior writer for Time magazine, highlighting 2011's best big screen performances, I was absolutely shocked to see these 2 names make the short list of 5 on the women's side: Ameena Matthews and Khomotso Manyaka.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 12:10 PM
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News

Brit renaissance man (director, writer, actor, producer, playwright, and who knows what else) Noel Clarke, who we've given a lot of pixels to on this site since it was started in 2009, is one really busy fellow, doing just about everything it seems; and as I noted in a pervious post, I'd say he's maybe the most prominent black British movie talent who's still relatively unknown outside the UK - specifically here in the USA.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 10:50 AM
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News

Well... that's what the trivia section of the IMDB page for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol says. Not banking solely on IMDB, I did some digging and found a few other sites saying the same thing, but most significantly was this quote from Ving Rhames while on the press tour for Death Race 2 in the fall of 2010:

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 9:29 AM
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Festivals

Sheldon Candis' feature film debut, LUV, which stars Common and Michael Rainey Jr, will make its debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, in the dramatic competition section, and it's on my short list of films to see while I'm there, starting in less than 3 weeks.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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January 2, 2012 9:19 AM
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News

The basics: Screenings of the Best Docs Of ADIFF 2011, from January 13 - 15, at Teachers college, Columbia Univesity, 525 West 120th Street – Room 263 Macy (take the 1 Train to 116th Street; FREE PARKING on Saturday and Sunday; Picture ID required to enter the building). Tickets are $11 general; $9 for seniors and students. For more info, call (212) 864-1760 or visits: http://www.NYADIFF.org.

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