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Jan 24, 2017 · Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Sundance 2017. Sundance Film Review: ‘Crown Heights’. Reviewed at CAA, Century City, Jan. 12, 2017. (In Sundance Film Festival — competing.) Running time: 96...
Feb 16, 2015 · The Blood of Jesus. A 1941 “race film” written and directed by Spencer Williams (the Andy of Amos ‘n Andy, the TV show), who also starred, The Blood of Jesus is a passion play from an ...
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...
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On August 6, 2015, it was announced that Matt Ruskin would direct a biographical film about wrongfully convicted prisoner Colin Warner based on his own script, which Lila Yacoub would produce along with Black Maple Films and iAm21 Entertainment.
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- This American Life: Colin Warner
- Matt Ruskin
- Mark De Gli Antoni
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 instructions...
1.8 cubic feet [4 boxes] 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.
Jun 4, 2023 · Jessie Maple, a pioneer in the film industry and civil rights movement, passed away at 76 on May 30. Her death was confirmed by her loved ones in a statement released by the Black Film...
