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Black filmgoers demand more from post-covid theatres
Guest Writer Sula Douglas Folkes is a Black British writer and aspiring film curator who lives in South London. She has written for titles including Live Black Heritage Today and worked for international Black film festivals to include Animae Caribe Animation &...
Black women’s energy fuels Project Power
Film Reveiw (may contain spoilers) “…is it because I’m white? Are you assuming that me and this beautiful black woman wouldn’t be able to share a happy home?...” In provocative, accusatory tone, these lines are shouted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s ‘Frank‘ in Project...
Generational begins ITV’s Unsaid Stories Series
Generational (dir. Alrick Riley) begins ITV’s Unsaid Stories in the UK broadcaster’s contribution to acknowledging the momentum of change that the Black Lives Matter protests and movement has brought to British shores via the USA.At 16-years-old, Justina (Yasmin Monet...
Have black actresses been squeezed out of the #MeToo movement?
Sylvie Soulet Contributor Sylvie Soulet is a dual American/Canadian citizen living in Toronto, Ontario. She has published with the likes of Midnight and Indigo as well as The Spool. She is currently writing her first YA novel. www.sylviesoul.com T -...
Women Of The Lens Joins The Black Cultural Archives With Love This Valentine’s Day
Extend the love this Valentine’s Day with Women Of The Lens Film Festival, in collaboration with London’s Black Cultural Archives. We bring you another fantastic screening of film director Rebecca Graham’s mesmerizing film, S.O.U.L Of A Black Woman as an open love...
Meet the Filmmakers Ahead of Women Of The lens Festival Launch
Life In My Shoe is a short film written and directed by Wimana Beatrice, a young refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beatrice was featured in NeeNee Productions 2016 film Sauti (Voice). Wimana Beatrice is a young journalist and Congolese refugee who...
Meet the Filmmakers Ahead of Women Of The lens Festival Launch
In the run up to the Festival's launch we spoke with some of the filmmakers with productions in this year's programme about their day-to-day lives. Let's hear from Teniola King, director of Gidi High Life... What gets you up out of bed in the mornings Teniola? "...The...
Blackout In The British Frame: meet the panellists
Come and join us as we open our annual event on Friday 29th November as we start to pick apart some of the vexed challenges about black women’s representation in UK media. Get to know our guest panellists who'll guide our discussion. Myvanwy Evans is the founder...
Black Out In The British Frame: black women’s media images come under scrutiny
It all started with a tweet, such is social media’s power to illicit debate now. Top Boy was the catalyst; that Channel4-come Drake-come-Netflix-rebirth of a certain brand of British black life…British black man’s life. Top...
Angela Bassett: Queen of the Screen provides much variety whatever the choice
It’s difficult to nail down a favourite Angela Bassett film, there’re too many. Bassett’s imdb.com filmography is lengthy. It was always going to be difficult to choose just one film; like gazing into a chocolate box and not knowing what to start gorging on. Yet just...
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