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Feb 16, 2015 · 50 Essential African-American Independent Films. By Alison Nastasi. Feb. 16, 2015. Share: While there are still too few African-American voices being recognized in Hollywood, recent films like...
May 31, 2023 · Film. News. May 31, 2023 3:37pm PT. Jessie Maple, Pioneering Black Filmmaker, Dies at 86. By McKinley Franklin. Variety. Jessie Maple Patton, who broke barriers for Black women in...
In 1982, Maple founded 20 West, Home of Black Cinema in Harlem as a showplace for independent black films. Maple’s work, in the genre of urban cinema, was a forerunner of the independent, minority filmmaking that would cultivate directors like Spike Lee, Charles Burnett, Leslie Harris and Lee Daniels. Director Jessie Maple.
Jun 11, 2023 · June 11, 2023. Jessie Maple, who built careers as a camerawoman and an independent filmmaker when Black women were almost nonexistent in those fields, and who then left meticulous...
100 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Boyz n the Hood. 1991 1h 52m R. 7.8 (155K) Rate. 76 Metascore. Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects. Director John Singleton Stars Cuba Gooding Jr. Laurence Fishburne Hudhail Al-Amir. 2.
14 cans of film. Jessie Maple is a pioneering independent African American filmmaker. After serving as an apprentice film editor on the studio features Shaft’s Big Score (1972) and The Super Cops (1974), Maple became the first Black woman to join the International Photographers of Motion Picture & Television Union in 1975.
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