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As Tambay posted on Friday, Samuel Pollard and Melissa Hazlip have teamed up to direct a new feature-length documentary on Ellis Haizlip, host and producer of PBS’ groundbreaking 1970s talk show series, SOUL!. The film will give a behind-the-scenes look at the show from its conception to its final broadcast, including the very public battle [...]

Continue Reading Livestream ‘Mr. SOUL!: Ellis Haizlip & The Birth of Black Power TV’ Kickstarter Launch Party Tonight

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Legendary performer and activist Harry Belafonte will receive the Montreal International Black Film Festival’s 2012 Humanitarian Prize on its opening night, Wednesday, September 19, at Cinéma Impérial. The MIBFF will grant Belafonte the award for his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and his efforts addressing injustice and inequality. “It is a tremendous honour and [...]

Continue Reading Harry Belafonte to Receive 2012 Humanitarian Award at Montreal International Black Film Festival

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The 2012 Sundance documentary Under African Skies, Joe Berlinger’s Paul Simon/Graceland project, which follows all sides of the complex story behind the artistic, political and commercial divide of Simon’s historic album, is getting a limited theatrical release, opening next week, May 11th, at the Los Angeles Laemmle Royal Theater. On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary [...]

Continue Reading "Under African Skies" (On The Controversy In Making Paul Simon’s "Graceland") Gets Theatrical

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I’ve written about this film before and I figured that it was only a matter of time before it came out on the Warner Home Video DVD-on-demand specialty label Warner Archive and this week it finally did. I’m talking about the 1952 MGM film Bright Road with Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. It was her [...]

Continue Reading "Bright Road" With Dorothy Dandridge And Harry Belafonte Now On Warner Archive DVD

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