The National Society of Film Critics has announced the winners of their annual awards and Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight" emerged as the Best Picture winner! In the acting categories, Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor for "Creed" while the Best Actress award went to Charlotte Rampling for "45 Years."
Mark Rylance for "Bridge of Spies" took home the Best Supporting Actor trophy while Kristen Stewart for "Clouds of Sils Maria" won the Best Supporting Actress award! Way to go Kristen!
The National Society of Film Critics dedicated their meeting to pick the winners to the "late Richard Corliss, longtime critic at Time magazine, not just a writer of extraordinary intelligence, wit, and energy, but also a generous friend and colleague."
Here are the winners of the National Society of Film Critics awards (winners are bolded and includes the number of votes):
Best Actor:
*1. Michael B. Jordan (Creed) 29 points
Geza Rohrig...
Mark Rylance for "Bridge of Spies" took home the Best Supporting Actor trophy while Kristen Stewart for "Clouds of Sils Maria" won the Best Supporting Actress award! Way to go Kristen!
The National Society of Film Critics dedicated their meeting to pick the winners to the "late Richard Corliss, longtime critic at Time magazine, not just a writer of extraordinary intelligence, wit, and energy, but also a generous friend and colleague."
Here are the winners of the National Society of Film Critics awards (winners are bolded and includes the number of votes):
Best Actor:
*1. Michael B. Jordan (Creed) 29 points
Geza Rohrig...
- 1/5/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The National Society of Film Critics announced its annual cinema superlatives this weekend, and while its selections indicate a strong frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar, its other honorees once again signify the ever-widening pool of potential nominees that could be called when Academy Award nominations are announced on January 14.
"Spotlight" took the Nsfc's top prize of 2015, winning Best Picture as well as Best Screenplay honors. The drama that tells the story of the Boston Globe's unveiling of the Catholic Church abuse scandal has been raking in accolades and nominations since awards season began, and is currently positioned as the favorite to nab the Best Picture trophy at the Oscars -- but based on how this season has unfolded so far, nothing is a sure thing just yet.
In fact, the conflict over the Nsfc's Best Director prize makes that point quite clear: "Spotlight" director Tom McCarthy earned the same...
"Spotlight" took the Nsfc's top prize of 2015, winning Best Picture as well as Best Screenplay honors. The drama that tells the story of the Boston Globe's unveiling of the Catholic Church abuse scandal has been raking in accolades and nominations since awards season began, and is currently positioned as the favorite to nab the Best Picture trophy at the Oscars -- but based on how this season has unfolded so far, nothing is a sure thing just yet.
In fact, the conflict over the Nsfc's Best Director prize makes that point quite clear: "Spotlight" director Tom McCarthy earned the same...
- 1/4/2016
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
The National Society Of Film Critics elected Tom McCarthy’s ensemble drama Best Picture of the Year 2015.
Michael B Jordan won best actor for Creed, Charlotte Rampling was named best actress for 45 Years and Todd Haynes won best director for Carol.
The 53-strong Society membership uses a weighted ballot system and held its 50th annual awards voting meeting on Sunday (Jan 3) at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center as guests of the Film Society Of Lincoln Center.
Full results:
Best Actor
Michael B. Jordan (Creed) 29 pointsGeza Rohrig (Son Of Saul) 18Tom Courtenay (45 Years) 15
Best Actress
Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) 57Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) 30Nina Hoss (Phoenix) 22
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies) 56Michael Shannon (99 Homes) 16Sylvester Stallone (Creed) 14
Best Supporting Actress
Kristen Stewart (Clouds Of Sils Maria) 53Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) 23Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) 17
Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy) 17
Best Screenplay
Spotlight (Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy) 21Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman) 15
The Big Short (Charles Randolph, Adam McKay) 15
Cinematography...
Michael B Jordan won best actor for Creed, Charlotte Rampling was named best actress for 45 Years and Todd Haynes won best director for Carol.
The 53-strong Society membership uses a weighted ballot system and held its 50th annual awards voting meeting on Sunday (Jan 3) at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center as guests of the Film Society Of Lincoln Center.
Full results:
Best Actor
Michael B. Jordan (Creed) 29 pointsGeza Rohrig (Son Of Saul) 18Tom Courtenay (45 Years) 15
Best Actress
Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) 57Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) 30Nina Hoss (Phoenix) 22
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies) 56Michael Shannon (99 Homes) 16Sylvester Stallone (Creed) 14
Best Supporting Actress
Kristen Stewart (Clouds Of Sils Maria) 53Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) 23Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) 17
Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy) 17
Best Screenplay
Spotlight (Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy) 21Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman) 15
The Big Short (Charles Randolph, Adam McKay) 15
Cinematography...
- 1/3/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The American Film Festival is building families. The 6th edition (October 20-25, 2015) of the Wroclaw, Poland film fest was better than any of the previous four I have attended as a jury member for the Us in Progress section. Networking with the USiP filmmakers, past participants Matt Sobel (“Take Me to the River”),Leah Meyerhoff (“I Believe in Unicorns”),Reza Sixo Safai (“A Girl Walks Home at Night Alone”) and whose present project “ The Loner” (he produced and stars in it, Daniel Grove directed) won at USiP, etc. mingled with Indie Star Awardees David Gordon Green and Hal Hartley and other filmmakers like Jenner Furst ("Welcome to Leith") invited to present their films and to eat and party together over five days and four nights which lasted until the wee hours of the morning.
African American Women's classics also showed for the first time ever to appreciative Polish audiences. Though luckily for them, but a sad miss for the audiences, every one of the filmmakers was too busy with other work to attend. The selected films brought rarely before scenes of life in America to a new public.
You can be sure Ava DuVernay was invited, and you can be equally certain that she was very busy with multiple projects.
When I was in Trinidad, I heard from the film's distributor, Michelle Materre, a well known lecturer and film curator whose film series and discussion group, Creatively Speaking, takes place at the N.Y. Film Society’s Lincoln Center and in L.A. that Julie Dash was busy working on a TV series or a doc. I hope one of you reading this will email me a more news of her, because since her film “Daughters of the Dust” premiered at Sundance in 1991, her fan base has grown and eagerly awaits more stories from her. For those who missed her instant classic at Sundance, "Daughters of the Dust" presents a transgenerational saga set on the fictitious island of Ibo's Landing in 1902 about a young woman's quest for identity. Guichees, or Gullahs, aka the Georgia Sea Islanders are U.S.'s most African community still living today off the Georgia and South Carolina coast. The film was presented to the audience as a radical feminist manifesto and landmark of independent American cinema.
Other films included in the series, curated by Ula Sniegowsk and a young film academic Ewa Drygalska, included Katherine Collins' (who tragically died of cancer at age 46) 1982 film "Losing Ground", Tanya Hamilton's "Night Catches Us", the popular and fabulous " The Secret Life of Bees" another Sundance premiering film, by Gina Prince-Blythewood (2008), Dee Rees' 2012 Sundance film "Pariah" and her recent HBO (who incidentally is an important sponsor of the festival with a showcase of its own films) fictional doc "Bessie" starring the one and only Queen Latifah, and Ava DuVernay's "Middle of Nowhere" and "Selma".
While we're on the subject of African American movies, the Spike Lee mentored new talent Michael Larnell, was here with my favorite "Next" generation film " Cronies".
Us in Progress had two out of six selected films about African Americans, the Four Award winning "Alaska Is a Drag" directed by former L.A. and Sundance Festival worker, debuting director Shaz Bennett, produced by Melanie Miller and Diane Becker; and "The Alchemist Cookbook" written and directed by Joel Potrykus. Other films included "Dope", documentarians' Albert Maysles' " In Transit", Nick Broomfield's "Tales of the Grim Sleeper" and Frederick Wiseman's "In Jackson Heights", Mark Silver's "3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets", sleeper hit "Tangerine" by Sean Baker, "Field Niggas" a nocturnal portrait of Harlem by Khalik Allah, David Gordon Green's “George Washington", and last, but by no means least, Clint Eastwood's "Bird" as part of his extensive retrospective.
This festival is held in the largest Arthouse multiplex in Europe, built and owned (as is the festival itself, along with New Horizons Film Festival in July and several others) by arthouse film distributor and entrepreneur Roman Gutek.
Fabulous. Written by Sydney Levine in her hotel room at The Monopole where an opera rehearsal wafts through the morning air of a sunny, dry 50*F metropolis mixing with the sound of the streetcar. This has been a fabulous experience topped off by a fabulous tour of the city and today a visit to Europe's most fabulous zoo and aquarium.
African American Women's classics also showed for the first time ever to appreciative Polish audiences. Though luckily for them, but a sad miss for the audiences, every one of the filmmakers was too busy with other work to attend. The selected films brought rarely before scenes of life in America to a new public.
You can be sure Ava DuVernay was invited, and you can be equally certain that she was very busy with multiple projects.
When I was in Trinidad, I heard from the film's distributor, Michelle Materre, a well known lecturer and film curator whose film series and discussion group, Creatively Speaking, takes place at the N.Y. Film Society’s Lincoln Center and in L.A. that Julie Dash was busy working on a TV series or a doc. I hope one of you reading this will email me a more news of her, because since her film “Daughters of the Dust” premiered at Sundance in 1991, her fan base has grown and eagerly awaits more stories from her. For those who missed her instant classic at Sundance, "Daughters of the Dust" presents a transgenerational saga set on the fictitious island of Ibo's Landing in 1902 about a young woman's quest for identity. Guichees, or Gullahs, aka the Georgia Sea Islanders are U.S.'s most African community still living today off the Georgia and South Carolina coast. The film was presented to the audience as a radical feminist manifesto and landmark of independent American cinema.
Other films included in the series, curated by Ula Sniegowsk and a young film academic Ewa Drygalska, included Katherine Collins' (who tragically died of cancer at age 46) 1982 film "Losing Ground", Tanya Hamilton's "Night Catches Us", the popular and fabulous " The Secret Life of Bees" another Sundance premiering film, by Gina Prince-Blythewood (2008), Dee Rees' 2012 Sundance film "Pariah" and her recent HBO (who incidentally is an important sponsor of the festival with a showcase of its own films) fictional doc "Bessie" starring the one and only Queen Latifah, and Ava DuVernay's "Middle of Nowhere" and "Selma".
While we're on the subject of African American movies, the Spike Lee mentored new talent Michael Larnell, was here with my favorite "Next" generation film " Cronies".
Us in Progress had two out of six selected films about African Americans, the Four Award winning "Alaska Is a Drag" directed by former L.A. and Sundance Festival worker, debuting director Shaz Bennett, produced by Melanie Miller and Diane Becker; and "The Alchemist Cookbook" written and directed by Joel Potrykus. Other films included "Dope", documentarians' Albert Maysles' " In Transit", Nick Broomfield's "Tales of the Grim Sleeper" and Frederick Wiseman's "In Jackson Heights", Mark Silver's "3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets", sleeper hit "Tangerine" by Sean Baker, "Field Niggas" a nocturnal portrait of Harlem by Khalik Allah, David Gordon Green's “George Washington", and last, but by no means least, Clint Eastwood's "Bird" as part of his extensive retrospective.
This festival is held in the largest Arthouse multiplex in Europe, built and owned (as is the festival itself, along with New Horizons Film Festival in July and several others) by arthouse film distributor and entrepreneur Roman Gutek.
Fabulous. Written by Sydney Levine in her hotel room at The Monopole where an opera rehearsal wafts through the morning air of a sunny, dry 50*F metropolis mixing with the sound of the streetcar. This has been a fabulous experience topped off by a fabulous tour of the city and today a visit to Europe's most fabulous zoo and aquarium.
- 10/28/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
It screened as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's "Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968–1986" series - a program of major (and mostly unseen) works by some of the great filmmakers of this (or any) era in cinema, programmed by Michelle Materre and Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer at Large Jake Perlin, co-presented by Creatively Speaking. The rarely-screened, groundbreaking film was restored by the New York Women in Film and Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund, who count it as part of its library. As an Fyi, Jessie Maple is considered to be the first African American woman to direct an independent...
- 2/20/2015
- by Alece Oxendine
- ShadowAndAct
Considering conversations we've long had on this blog about efforts to collect the lot of "black films" from yesteryear (especially those considered *lost* to history, unseen or rarely screened publicly) and making them widely-accessible in one complete set, digitally restored (HD) and remastered, this is one message, one campaign that S&A certainly approves of. Coincidentally, starting this Friday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, kicks off its own groundbreaking series, "Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968 – 1986," programmed by Michelle Materre and Jake Perlin, and co-presented by Creatively...
- 2/4/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: New Yorkers should take advantage of a retrospective of the filmmaker, at Maysles Cinema, which kicked off last night, January 22nd, and runs through January 25th, 2015 - a series curated by Michelle Materre and the Creatively Speaking Film Series, co-sponsored by the Haiti Cultural Exchange and The Ddpa (Durban Declaration & Programme of Action) Watch Group. Titled "Raoul Peck: Après the Earthquake," the filmmaker himself will be present for part of the series, to participate in post-screening chats. "Fatal Assistance" screens tonight, at 7:30 Pm. There will be a Q&A with director Peck and Michelle Materre,...
- 1/23/2015
- by Karina Griffith
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: New Yorkers should take advantage of a retrospective of the filmmaker, set to run at Maysles Cinema, starting today, January 22nd to January 25th, 2015 - a series curated by Michelle Materre and the Creatively Speaking Film Series, co-sponsored by the Haiti Cultural Exchange and The Ddpa (Durban Declaration & Programme of Action) Watch Group. Titled "Raoul Peck: Après the Earthquake," the filmmaker himself will be present for part of the series, to participate in post-screening chats. "Moloch Tropical" opens the series tonight, screening at 7:30 Pm. It's a film I first saw about 4 years ago, and one that I...
- 1/22/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
As Executive Director of ttff, the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival which he started eight years ago, Bruce Paddington saw it develop from showing 36 movies to showing more than 100. They use 2 main venues and several smaller ones. The caliber of films has improved as more filmmakers are applying and because the ttff team works twelve months a year, they can curate better films. They have shown "Beasts of the Southern Wild" with Benh Zeitlin and his sister attending along with his parents who are cultural activists and are in fact now making a documentary on the music of the Caribbean, the African film "La Pirogue" from Senegal, and other notable films.
The films have reached the level of “No" from Chile and "Gloria" which showed there before it opened the Havana Film Festival. "Half of the Yellow Sun" from Nigeria opened their festival last year just weeks after it played in the Toronto International Film Festival. Producer Andrea Calderwood attended, introduced the film and ran a workshop. The Panorama section is becoming more international and yet the festival itself prides itself on the Caribbean character of the films and of their heritage which includes African, Indian, Latino and Anglo citizens. It is the Number One Festival of the Caribbean. Next year it will launch the first Caribbean Film Market.
Bruce is also a filmmaker in his own right as well.
When he produced and directed " Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution", a film about the Grenada Revolution and the circumstances surrounding the execution of Maurice Bishop and his colleagues, he was acting on a burning desire to create a comprehensive record of the key events of the revolution, having been impressed with what he saw on his visit to the island during the revolutionary period. But he hadn’t catered for the overwhelming response that the film has received to date. Having been screened in ten countries in only nine months, "Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution", which is often followed by a post-screening discussion, has generated a buzz of activity worldwide, among analysts of the Grenada revolution, filmmakers and of course the Grenadian diaspora.
The fact that the documentary feature was made and released almost exactly thirty years after the revolution might also have something to do with it; there is the distance of historical perspective, but there are also still enough people around who lived it and who remember the raw details of those events that had such an impact on the region’s politics.
And those who are old enough to remember are not the only ones who flock to "Forward Ever”. “What I also find compelling is the interest that young people – people who might not have even been born when the revolution took place – have in the film,” said Paddington. “Some of them had older relatives involved, others are just curious about Caribbean history. Either way, it’s extremely gratifying to see that level of interest all around; it means that we did something very right with the production.”
The film has also gained critical acclaim. In St. Lucia, the veteran journalist Earl Bousquet praised the film as a work of art that "allows images to tell stories, accompanying still photos with explanatory narratives while allowing those who were there to tell their unvarnished stories." Les Slater of Caribbean Life News believes "a huge debt is owed to the filmmaker Bruce Paddington for the very important document he assembled for the Caribbean archives." While John Green of the Morning Star newspaper in the United Kingdom argues, "Paddington's documentary is a gripping and revealing account of the Grenada revolution as never seen before."
This year, the film has been screened in London at the prestigious British Library and at the British Film Institute on Southbank as part of its African Odysseys program. It made its New York City debut in June, with former head of the Transport Workers Union, Roger Toussaint, a Trinidadian, with the Caribbean Awareness group, as a collaborator. Also supporting the film was Michelle Materre, the director of Creatively Speaking, an organization which highlights important films which feature people of colour and their histories. It was screened at the Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, The Maysles Theatre Harlem and Dctvny in Soho, and then went on to the Baobab Center in Rochester. These screenings were sandwiched in between sold out screenings in Jamaica, St. Kitts, St Lucia and Barbados that were organized by the Uwi Open Campus network; so the film’s busy schedule continues. The film has now been released on DVD for the Us market at grenadamarket.com and is due to be released by the Third World Newsreel distribution company. The DVD will soon be released in Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
The film received funding from - The University of the West Indies (funding for the research), Fondashon Bon Intenshon in Curacao, Flow (Columbus Communications) Trinidad, and the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company (for the marketing and distribution).
For further information: Website: forwardeverfilm.com FaceBook: forwardeverfilm...
The films have reached the level of “No" from Chile and "Gloria" which showed there before it opened the Havana Film Festival. "Half of the Yellow Sun" from Nigeria opened their festival last year just weeks after it played in the Toronto International Film Festival. Producer Andrea Calderwood attended, introduced the film and ran a workshop. The Panorama section is becoming more international and yet the festival itself prides itself on the Caribbean character of the films and of their heritage which includes African, Indian, Latino and Anglo citizens. It is the Number One Festival of the Caribbean. Next year it will launch the first Caribbean Film Market.
Bruce is also a filmmaker in his own right as well.
When he produced and directed " Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution", a film about the Grenada Revolution and the circumstances surrounding the execution of Maurice Bishop and his colleagues, he was acting on a burning desire to create a comprehensive record of the key events of the revolution, having been impressed with what he saw on his visit to the island during the revolutionary period. But he hadn’t catered for the overwhelming response that the film has received to date. Having been screened in ten countries in only nine months, "Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution", which is often followed by a post-screening discussion, has generated a buzz of activity worldwide, among analysts of the Grenada revolution, filmmakers and of course the Grenadian diaspora.
The fact that the documentary feature was made and released almost exactly thirty years after the revolution might also have something to do with it; there is the distance of historical perspective, but there are also still enough people around who lived it and who remember the raw details of those events that had such an impact on the region’s politics.
And those who are old enough to remember are not the only ones who flock to "Forward Ever”. “What I also find compelling is the interest that young people – people who might not have even been born when the revolution took place – have in the film,” said Paddington. “Some of them had older relatives involved, others are just curious about Caribbean history. Either way, it’s extremely gratifying to see that level of interest all around; it means that we did something very right with the production.”
The film has also gained critical acclaim. In St. Lucia, the veteran journalist Earl Bousquet praised the film as a work of art that "allows images to tell stories, accompanying still photos with explanatory narratives while allowing those who were there to tell their unvarnished stories." Les Slater of Caribbean Life News believes "a huge debt is owed to the filmmaker Bruce Paddington for the very important document he assembled for the Caribbean archives." While John Green of the Morning Star newspaper in the United Kingdom argues, "Paddington's documentary is a gripping and revealing account of the Grenada revolution as never seen before."
This year, the film has been screened in London at the prestigious British Library and at the British Film Institute on Southbank as part of its African Odysseys program. It made its New York City debut in June, with former head of the Transport Workers Union, Roger Toussaint, a Trinidadian, with the Caribbean Awareness group, as a collaborator. Also supporting the film was Michelle Materre, the director of Creatively Speaking, an organization which highlights important films which feature people of colour and their histories. It was screened at the Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, The Maysles Theatre Harlem and Dctvny in Soho, and then went on to the Baobab Center in Rochester. These screenings were sandwiched in between sold out screenings in Jamaica, St. Kitts, St Lucia and Barbados that were organized by the Uwi Open Campus network; so the film’s busy schedule continues. The film has now been released on DVD for the Us market at grenadamarket.com and is due to be released by the Third World Newsreel distribution company. The DVD will soon be released in Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
The film received funding from - The University of the West Indies (funding for the research), Fondashon Bon Intenshon in Curacao, Flow (Columbus Communications) Trinidad, and the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company (for the marketing and distribution).
For further information: Website: forwardeverfilm.com FaceBook: forwardeverfilm...
- 8/11/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The wait is over! Writer/director/actor Ka'ramuu Kush's short film And Then..., winner of the 3rd Shadow And Act Black Filmmaker Screenwriting Challenge, made its World Premiere at locations in both Los Angeles and New York City, a month ago. In La, the screening, presented by Hollywood Shorts, and hosted by Kimberley Browning, will take place at Dim Mak Studios (formerly CineSpace), 6356 Hollywood Blvd. In New York, the screening, presented by Creatively Speaking, which is spearheaded by New School faculty member Michelle Materre, will take place at The New School Theresa Lang Student...
- 9/5/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The wait is over! Ka'ramuu Kush's short film And Then..., winner of the 3rd Shadow And Act Black Filmmaker Challenge, is set to make its World Premiere in both Los Angeles And New York City, Tonight, Wednesday, August 7th, both at 7pm local time (Pst and Est). In La, the screening, presented by Hollywood Shorts, and hosted by Kimberley Browning, will take place at Dim Mak Studios (formerly CineSpace), 6356 Hollywood Blvd. In New York, the screening, presented by Creatively Speaking, which is spearheaded by New School faculty member Michelle Materre, will take place at The New School Theresa Lang...
- 8/7/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Ka'ramuu Kush's Shadow & Act Filmmaker Challenge winning short film And Then..., which will World Premiere in Los Angeles on August 7th, at Dim Mak Studios (formerly CineSpace), will make its East Coast premiere - in New York City - at The New School Theresa Lang Student Center (55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor), and it happens next Wednesday, August 7th at 7pm. Presented by Creatively Speaking, which is spearheaded by New School faculty member Michelle Materre, the Free screening will be followed by a Skype interview with director Kush, while the film's producer Sean O'Halloran and film's cast will be present for a...
- 7/31/2013
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
Mist (My Image Studios) in Harlem (46 West 116th Street, New York, New York) will hold a special screening of the documentary Venus & Serena, followed by a Q&A with its editor Sam Pollard tomorrow June 5. Creatively Speaking, spearheaded by Michelle Materre, will host the event. Tambay saw the film last month and reviewed it positively. If you haven't yet, you can read that review Here. By the way, If you are in New York tomorrow, you can buy your ticket online Here. Event details below: Q&A with Editor, Sam Pollard on the Black Whole Radio Network Simultaneous Live Broadcast Creatively Speaking on the Air Q&A with Editor, Sam Pollard on the Black Whole Radio...
- 6/5/2013
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
If you live in New York or have travel plans to the city April 19-21...... The folks at Creatively Speaking, spearheaded by Michelle Materre, are hosting the film event Urban and Green: Stories of Environmental Injustice this month at Mist (My Image Studios) in Harlem, NY (46 W 116th Street). The event, which includes a few of our film favorites, will feature Byron Hurt's Soul Food Junkies, Kelly Anderson's Brooklyn gentrification documentary My Brooklyn, Luisa Danta's New Orleans-set documentary Land of Opportunity and Heidi Ewing/Rachel Grady's documentary on Detroit's ills titled Detropia. See more information below, along with links to purchase tickets: "The End of Poverty by...
- 4/5/2013
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
New Yorkers! Launching at the new Mist Harlem Cinemas in Harlem, New York this upcoming weekend, Friday, February 22nd through Monday, February 25th, is the Creatively Speaking film series event In Living Color: Love Stories in Black, White & Brown. Curated by Michelle Materre, In Living Color will feature two New York City premieres: Obama in Ghana by Tony Regusters and the Sara Blecher documentary Surfing Soweto. Read the rest of the press release below for details on features and shorts. Join Creatively Speaking on Facebook for film descriptions and schedule. Harlem, New York, February 1, 2013 - Creatively SpeakingTM , the curated film series with a seventeen year...
- 2/21/2013
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
Mist (My Image Studios) CEO Roland Laird and his team - Director of Programming Alexa Birdsong; Cinema Programming and Marketing Director/Co-Owner of Autonomous Entertainment Cedric Beasley; Media Consulting/Autonomous Entertainment, Inc.'s Michelle Materre - intend for Mist, located on 40 West 116th Street, to become the lifeblood of a neighborhood, a much needed 2nd renaissance for Harlem after its gentrification. The state-of-the-art entertainment center - which holds two 91-seat film theaters and a third theater with 162 seats - will exhibit mostly independent films of the African and Latino diasporas, and will include a restaurant, live music performances five-nights-a-week...
- 9/27/2012
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
I've known Michelle Materre for about 6 years now, and I can say that this is definitely well-deserved (with hopefully even more to come): Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival Honors Film Pioneer Film Distributor/Curator Michelle Materre Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series will celebrate its 15th Anniversary by honoring four outstanding film leaders who have opened the doors for many filmmakers and actors. The Reel Sisters Film Festival will be held on Oct. 13 & 14, 2012 at the Kumble Theater, Liu Brooklyn Campus. On Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, from 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm, Reel...
- 9/24/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Located in W 116th Street in Harlem, the African and Latino Diaspora theater and entertainment center Mist (My Image Studios), will have its official opening late September. We'll be covering Mist as its grand opening nears. Mist's CEO Roland Laird, Director of Programming Alexa Birdsong, Cinema Programming and Marketing Director Cedric Beasley and Media Consulting's Michelle Materre spoke to S&A exclusively about the ambitious $21 million investment, which aside from treating patrons to its restaurant, will showcase films, theater, live music and poetry slams. Look out for that interview feature in the next few days. As previously announced, the South...
- 8/10/2012
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
I will be a panelist on today’s 1Pm panel titled Who gets to tell the story? Representation, appropriation and distribution of the Black Image. And I’ll be joined by… scholars Tracyann Williams (moderator), Pearl Bowser, Fabio Parasecoli, and Raquel Gates, as well as director, producer and writer Frances Anne Solomon.
All part of a conference here in NYC, taking place on April 8th and 9th, presented by the New School Media Studies and Film faculty, organized by New School faculty and media distribution consultant, Michelle Materre, titled Remixed And Remastered: Defining And Distributing the Black Image In An Era Of Globalization.
Other notables include author and cultural critic Jill Nelson; filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Charles Officer, Thomas Allen Harris, and Regi Allen; scholars Sean Jacobs, and key industry notables including Focus Features’ Africa First Shorts’ Kisha Cameron-Dingle, HBO’s Greg Rhem and National Black Programming Consortium’s Leslie Fields Cruz.
All part of a conference here in NYC, taking place on April 8th and 9th, presented by the New School Media Studies and Film faculty, organized by New School faculty and media distribution consultant, Michelle Materre, titled Remixed And Remastered: Defining And Distributing the Black Image In An Era Of Globalization.
Other notables include author and cultural critic Jill Nelson; filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Charles Officer, Thomas Allen Harris, and Regi Allen; scholars Sean Jacobs, and key industry notables including Focus Features’ Africa First Shorts’ Kisha Cameron-Dingle, HBO’s Greg Rhem and National Black Programming Consortium’s Leslie Fields Cruz.
- 4/9/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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