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The L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to several dozen young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at UCLA Film School for the 20-year span between the late 1960s to the late 1980s, who went on to create independent Black art house film to ...
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...
Monica J. Freeman (born 1947) is an independent Black feminist filmmaker and arts administrator.. Freeman earned her MFA from Columbia University.According to one article, "In the early '70s, Monica Freeman's documentaries heralded a new generation of Black women producing independent films about Black women."
If you’ve seen any Black drama films from the 1990s, you’ve almost certainly run into this LA-born filmmaker. He also created “Poetic Justice” (1993) and “Baby Boy” (2001).
Ahead of her new movie, "The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat," director Tina Mabry reflected on the Black film canon, Hollywood's failure to support complex, independent cinema and her early ...
The series features the range of work from Black filmmakers today, from major blockbusters like Coogler’s “Black Panther” to Ava Duvernay’s poignant historical film “Selma” and Barry ...
The L.A. Rebellion film movement, sometimes referred to as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to the new generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late-1960s to the late-1980s and have created a black cinema that provides an alternative to classical Hollywood cinema.
The Times interviewed nearly two dozen Black entertainment industry voices, spanning directors, producers, writers, designers, agents and executives. They discussed racism in Hollywood, what needs ...