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BlackStar Film Festival Coverage 2017 (Aug 3-6)
Tinsel & Tine’s Coverage of the 6th Annual BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The 6th Annual BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL 2017 #BSFF17 – Showcasing films by black people from around the world. Screening more than 60 films from 16 countries. This year’s theme is RESISTANCE – examining political and social uprisings around the world and in the U.S. Check out our Festival Coverage below: Post update 8/4/17 Shorts Program 5 Q&A with the filmmakers The trick to a good short is how soon you are invested in the characters, and at the end you wanna feel like you saw a feature length movie. These 5 short films shown…
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The Importance of SELMA: Interview with director Ava DuVernay in Philadelphia
T&T: On the days when you filmed the massacre on the bridge, what was the set like between white and black cast members? Was there a lot of tension? And if so, did you try to dispel it or use it to heighten the scene? AVA: That's interesting. It's the last day of my 2 week press tour and no one else has asked me that question. So that's pretty cool.
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Highlight: American Promise
Have you heard about this doc – AMERICAN PROMISE ? It’s an emotional tale about race, class and the exclusive struggles that black boys in America must endure when attempting to achieve academically. The film intimately chronicles the lives of Idris Brewster and Seun Summers, a pair of middle-class African-American male students trying to navigate one of the nation’s most prestigious schools from kindergarten to graduation. Storytellers (parents) Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, both first generation college graduates, have been traveling the country speaking about the labor of love that won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award in 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival. “We both have come to understand…
