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African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [58] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
Flag Wars is a 2003 American documentary film about the conflict between two communities during the gentrification of a Columbus, Ohio neighborhood. Filmed in a cinéma vérité style, the film is an account of the tension between the two historically oppressed communities of African-Americans and gays in Columbus' Olde Towne East neighborhood. [1]
Something Good – Negro Kiss is a short silent film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was made.
In making the movie based on humorist Jean Shepherd’s childhood, director Bob Clark used Cleveland as a surrogate for 1940s Indiana – particularly 11th Street in Cleveland’s Tremont ...
The Manson Family (film) The Marksman (2021 film) McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio; Memory Lane (2012 film) Midsummer Rock; The Mighty; Miles Ahead (film) Milk Money (film) Minerva Monster; Monica (2022 film) More than a Game; My Blind Brother; My Friend Dahmer (film) My Summer Story
The "separate cinema" [3] of race films directed for Black audiences used the drama genre to combat the popular, accepted view of African Americans. The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, established in 1915, was the first Black film company to produce films that showed positive qualities in their illustration of African-American lives. [4]
In 2013, five African-American films were released (12 Years a Slave, Fruitvale Station, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Best Man Holiday and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom). [citation needed] The release of such films had a broader impact on the film industry with movie attendance by African Americans growing by thirteen percent compared to 2012. [12]
When Briia Johnson recently came across a video of a Black woman getting her hair cut and styled into a mullet, she felt instantly inspired to start rocking one of her own. "I had a mullet in the ...