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- Harpo Productions. Harpo Productions comes from media icon Oprah Winfrey. The production company is responsible for several television programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil, and Rachael Ray- the company also had a hand in films such as Selma and Precious.
- SpringHill Entertainment. Basketball superstar LeBron James has been slowly entering the entertainment industry in recent years. James and Maverick Carter created SpringHill Entertainmentand focus on projects across television and film.
- Monkeypaw Productions. Jordan Peele founded this Black owned-production company in 2012. The first project under the Monkeypaw Productionswas Comedy Central’s Key & Peele.
- Array. Arrayis a product company ran by female filmmaker Ava Duvernay. Beginning in 2010, the independent film studio champions people of color and female filmmakers to share their voice through film.
Mar 19, 2021 · Black people are significantly under-represented in the film and TV industry, according to a McKinsey report. Increasing opportunities for Black people in film and TV could improve equality and also generate over $10 billion in annual revenues across the industry.
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- Overbrook Entertainment. Established in 1998 by Will Smith and James Lassiter, Overbrook Entertainment has produced a variety of successful films across different genres, including "Ali," "Hitch," and "The Pursuit of Happyness."
- Alcon Entertainment. Alcon Entertainment, co-founded by Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove in 1997, has produced various critically and commercially successful films.
- Will Packer Productions and Rainforest Films. Will Packer's production companies have been behind some of the most successful films in the past few years, grossing over $1.255 billion worldwide?
- Eddie Murphy Productions. Eddie Murphy, a comedic legend, established his production company to blend humor and heartfelt storytelling. His company has grossed over $1B worldwide, with films like "Coming to America" and "Harlem Nights" under its belt.
- Haley Elizabeth Anderson
- Blitz Bazawule
- Radha Blank
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- Stefon Bristol
- Chinonye Chukwu
- JD Dillard
- Rashaad Ernesto Green
- Shaka King
- Julius Onah
Pillars, If There Is A Light (shorts) To find a brand-new voice already so fully formed is rare. While Haley Elizabeth Anderson (above left), a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch program, first generated waves at Tribeca 2019 – Queen Latifah and Dee Rees singled out her short filmIf There Is a Light there – it was at Sundance 2020 that her coming-of-ag...
94% Black Is King (2020) (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images) Before Queen Bey anointed him to direct her visual album Black is King, Ghanaian-born and New York-based hip-hop artist Blitz Bazawule’s spellbinding ghost story The Burial of Kojo caught the eye of in-the-know film fans and critics. Distributed by Ava DuVernay’s Array on Netflix, the imp...
99% The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020) Not since Spike Lee’s similarly shot black-and-white first film, She’s Gotta Have It,has a Black filmmaker’s directorial-writing-starring debut astounded audiences as much as Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old Version. Her sharp, hilarious satire, concerning a once-ascendant Black playwright now shifting gears to...
88% Zola (2020) (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) Janicza Bravo’s past credits include episodes of the acclaimed TV shows Atlanta and Dear White People, and her offbeat feature debut, Lemon, but it’s the 2020 Sundance favorite Zolathat’s soon to make her a household name. The film is an adaptation of an infamous – and viral – 148-tweet Twitter ...
93% See You Yesterday (2019) (Photo by Cara Howe / © Netflix / courtesy Everett Collection) When Spike Lee produces your film you better deliver. Stefon Bristol, in his ambitious feature debut See You Yesterday, indeed delivered with an ingenious sci-fi time-travel romp that explores police brutality just as nimbly as it plays with theories of rela...
92% Clemency (2019) (Photo by Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection) Though the prison industrial complex adversely affects Black people, it feels like the bulk of prison films – from Kiss of the Spider Woman to Dead Man Walking – feature white protagonists. With her sophomore film, Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu crafted a ruminative character study of pri...
80% Sleight (2016) (Photo by Leon Bennett/WireImage) JD Dillard is so well-known among cinephiles and genre fans, it’s odd to call him up-and-coming. His subversive first feature Sleight vividly reimagined the superhero genre through the eyes of a Black street magician. His follow-up Sweetheart, a spine-tingling creature feature set on a deserted i...
93% Premature (2019) (Photo by Araya Diaz/Getty Images) More than a couple films struggled to break through in the early crazy days of the pandemic: Released in February 2020 on Video On Demand, Rashaad Ernesto Green’s swooning slow-burn summer romance Premature was one of them. This patient love story sees Harlem teen Ayanna (Zora Howard) dating t...
97% Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) To evoke the words of Black Panther Fred Hampton, one of the central figures of Shaka King’s upcoming Judas and the Black Messiah: this director is a revolutionary. After bouncing from the acclaimed TBS comedy People of Earth to the equally heralded Hulu sitcom Shrill, he...
90% Luce (2019) (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) Often when Black filmmakers release a dud, they struggle to find a second chance. Julius Onah bucked that trend. He first directed the critically derided The Cloverfield Paradox, only to follow-up that disaster with the critically heralded Luce. The thought-provoking latter film interrogates rac...
Aug 22, 2023 · Emerging Black Production Companies: The Future of Filmmaking. In the vast realm of cinema, while established Black production companies have made their mark, there's a new wave of filmmakers and storytellers poised to shape the industry's future.
Dec 21, 2021 · Notable Black production companies such as Overbrook Entertainment, Array, 40 Acres and a Mule, Tyler Perry Studios, CubeVision, Oprah’s Harpo Productions, among others, have produced...
Oct 9, 2019 · It’s exciting that Tyler Perry has launched a multi-million dollar studio in Atlanta creating more opportunities for Black filmmakers, but let’s be clear, he’s not the first. This editorial, by all means, is not meant to rain on Tyler Perry’s parade.
