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Santiago Zannou, a Spanish filmmaker of African descent (his father is from Benin, the West African country), will see his second feature film, titled Scorpion In Love, picked up by Wild Bunch, who plans to shop the film at the upcoming American Film Market at the end of this month. Scorpion in Love is an [...]

Continue Reading Santiago Zannou’s ‘Scorpion In Love’ (Nazi Falls For Mixed-Race Girl) Picked Up By Wild Bunch

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Well I figured that it wouldn’t take long. Yesterday, I reported that there was a film version of Shay Youngblood’s novel, Black Girl In Paris, currently in production, starring Tracey Heggins from Medicine for Melancholy, and British actress Zaraah Abrahams. I even posted a short video interview with Ms. Abrahams in which she confirmed that she was currently working [...]

Continue Reading Take A Peek At Production Set Photos From ‘Black Girl In Paris’

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Last week, we found out about un under-the-radar film project currently in production titled Black Girl in Paris, based on the book by Shay Youngblood that supposedly stars Tracy Heggins from Medicine for Melancholy, LUV and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. We searched and couldn’t cornfirm it. There’s not even a listing for the [...]

Continue Reading ‘Black Girl In Paris’ Currently In Production With Tracey Heggins

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In what will be her next released project after this fall’s education reform drama Won’t Back Down, Viola Davis co-stars in the upcoming adaptation of Beautiful Creatures, the first of three novels by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl about Ethan, a mortal boy living in the South, and Lena, the girl he loves with enigmatic powers she’s [...]

Continue Reading Watch Viola Davis As Clairvoyant Amma In First Trailer For ‘Beautiful Creatures’

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Watch season 2, episode 4 of Awkward Black Girl starring Issa Rae below, which debuted yesterday; it’s titled The Search, in which J finally decides to search for a new job, but just when things are looking up, White Jay throws a curveball. By the way, Issa Rae was a guest on FX’s Totally Biased last night. Article source: http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/watch-the-search-season-2-episode-4-of-awkward-black-girl

Continue Reading Watch ‘The Search’ (Season 2, Episode 4 Of ‘Awkward Black Girl’)

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Here’s a film I’d like to see; City of God and Besouro (especially the “capoeira” fighting style clips) come to mind after watching the trailer. Glad to see a woman of the African Diaspora at the helm. Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Cecilia Amado (1999′s Maua – The Emperor and the King), the action/adventure romantic coming [...]

Continue Reading TTFF ’12 Preview: Orphan Girl Joins Boys’ Gang In Brazilian Coming Of Age Tale ‘Captains of the Sand’

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Release Year: 2012 Story, Screenplay Director – Afe OlumoweProducer – Tom Oviawe Starring: Yvonne Okoro Artus Frank Vivianne Achor Vivian Bijou Amegashie Themes: Cancer Prostitution Terminal Illness NollywoodForever.Com Rating – 41% Movie Story: Everyone is looking for Sasha, played by Yvonne Okoro who has cancer and not long to live. She has disappeared after being [...]

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Here comes a new web series created by the Black Sexy TV team (aka Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier), and executive produced by Issa Rae (aka Awkward Black Girl) via her Issa Rae Productions.  I’m sure everyone who reads this site is familiar with all those names and brands by now; at least I hope so. They’ve all worked [...]

Continue Reading ‘Awkward Black Girl’ Teams Up w/ Black & Sexy TV Crew For New Series ‘Roomieloverfriends’ (Preview)

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This is great! Unlike Vol 1, which you had to purchase to watch, Focus Features has decided to made Vol 2 of its Africa First Shorts Program films available on Hulu, for *free* (of course, you have to still watch Hulu’s expected commercial interruptions; but I think most of you would prefer that to having to actually [...]

Continue Reading Watch All 5 Focus Features Africa First Shorts Vol 2 Films Right Now!

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In light of Al Freeman Jr.’s death (please see the post immediately underneath this one)… Made in 1967, Dutchman is the filmed version of Amiri Baraka’s (he was LeRoi Jones when he wrote it) controversial one-act stage play. It won the Obie Award for best off-Broadway play, thrusting Baraka into the limelight. It stars Al Freeman [...]

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