Feb 22, 2011

New York's longest running film festival is back - mark your calendars and submit your films now!

Dec 1, 2010

Sundance USA, brings Sundance films to a theatre near you. Chicago, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Nashville, San Francisco are just a few of the cities listed.

Nov 15, 2010

Pulkit Datta New York’s oldest South Asian film festival offers a diverse array of films, panels and special features in its 10th year. Anyone looking for access to a spectrum of Indian cinema in New York City can’t complain. There are now a handful of film festivals promising a good dose of Indian filmdom in the Big Apple. The oldest of these festivals...

Sep 26, 2010

Reagan Gomez is the executive producer and star of this short film, currently being shown at a film festival near you! Romantic story about a soldier who returns home, to find everything has changed, including the woman he...

Sep 23, 2010

“I have been a fan of Yuen Woo Ping since I was young. I had a chance to meet him on the set of KILL BILL along with his team. I have always admired him as a fan and once I met him I admired him as a man too. He has directed many of my favorite movies of all time and it will be a great honor to present him with such a prestigious award.” – RZA As...

Sep 23, 2010

Set in 1844 Japan, the violent action epic is a remake of the 1963 film of the same title and stars Koji Yakusho (Tokyo Sonata, Babel) as a samurai who assembles a team of thirteen killers to assassinate the brother of a sadistic young Shogun. I hear that the 45-minute climactic battle is astonishing: Magnolia chief Eamonn Bowles was raving about the film in...

Sep 20, 2010

The 14th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET Networks, has announced the winners of the narrative feature, documentary feature, narrative short, documentary short, screenplay, teleplay and audience award categories. The five-day festival was held September 15-19 and concluded yesterday with an awards brunch at Tribeca Grill Loft. Urbanworld,...

May 13, 2010

Yolonda Brinkley, friend of The Black Box Office, is not only AT Cannes, she's bringing folks together!

Nov 12, 2009

In America, a kid drops out of school every 9 seconds. What if they didn’t? This is the compelling question behind award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio’s newest project TEN9EIGHT, a thought provoking film which tells the inspirational stories of several inner city teens (of differing race, religion, and ethnicity) from Harlem to Compton and all points...

Oct 9, 2009

Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe the new breakout star of “Precious” isn’t done yet! She is about to start shooting Yelling to the Sky, a Sundance Lab film with Don Cheadle, where she is NOT the victim this time! Instead she will play a bit of a bully herself, opposite another young actor I can’t wait to see flourish Zoe Kravitz. Gabourey is...

Sep 17, 2009

It looks like The Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group is in final negotiations to pick up “Defendor,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. “Defendor” , directed by Peter Stebbings, stars Woody Harrelson as a man who is under the delusion that he is a superhero, his psychiatrist, played by Sandrah...

Sep 3, 2009

NEW YORK, NY (September 3, 2009) – The 13th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET Networks, today announced the opening night selection of Overture Films’ dramatic thriller LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, starring Gerard Butler, Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx and Academy Award nominee Viola Davis under the direction of F. Gary Gray. The star-studded...

Jul 18, 2009

A marriage of convenience turns into something much deeper after an Ethiopian man agrees to marry a woman so that she can obtain her green card and gain U.S. citizenship. Solomon has always dreamed of opening an authentic Ethiopian coffee house, so when Hannah’s parents agree to pay him $20,000 to marry their daughter he jumps at the opportunity. Over the...

Jul 6, 2009

The 1960s were in full heat. The Vietnam War, campus unrest, political assassinations and a defiant counterculture were remaking the country. For African Americans, nonviolent protest was giving way to “black power” as the traditional civil rights movement was seen as failing the aspirations of poor blacks in decaying urban centers. There had been...

Jul 6, 2009

A MAN NAMED PEARL tells the inspiring story of self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar, whose unlikely journey to national prominence began with a bigoted remark. In 1976, Pearl took a job in a can factory in Bishopville, South Carolina. New to this rural southern town, he and his wife Metra looked at a house for sale in an all-white neighborhood. The...

Jun 29, 2009

“Wah Do Dem” brings back an interesting style of filmmaking that we don’t see much any more, a true guerilla style. And for that reason, it’s a standout from the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Also, it’s got an interesting cast. Norah Jones and Sean Bones are great casting choices, and for that incredible touch of authenticity in...

Check out this trailer for “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love”, directed by by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a world-renowned musician and the iconic representative “voice of Africa”. At the height of his career, Youssou, became frustrated by the...

Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee – and it’s a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of...

May 14, 2009

For the third year, Nigeria has maintained a pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival. The 62nd Cannes Film Festival, which will run till May 24 2009, will have over 200,000 stakeholders in attendance. Without a film to screen for the third time, Nigeria is heading to the world largest and most glamorous film fiesta as the second largest film producer after...

New York, NY — Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) celebrates its tenth anniversary with premieres of highly anticipated and influential films from and about Latin America and Latinos in the U.S. Programs for all ages will be shown throughout various locations in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. Quad Cinema (34 W. 13 St) will show films from April 17 to...

BIG WINNER at the 2009 AAMAs!! PLAYING AT THE NY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL at Lincoln Center Here’s the trailer to one of the most talked about films in African cinema. “From A Whisper” is a film by Wanuri Kahiu, based on real events surrounding the US Embassy bombing in Kenya on August 7, 1998.

PLAYING THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 9PM part of the NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL Having grown up in a world where corruption and greed over-ride all else, life-long friends Bode and Obi decide to repent from their way of life when they encounter a near death experience following a botched scam. They cut their ties with megalomaniacal boss (Dele) and his domineering...

PLAYING as part of the NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2008, 6:15PM In five days the first South African democratic elections will take place, after which there will be majority rule under a Black government. Tensions are high thoughout the land, and no less so in Triomf, the poor white suburb of Johannesburg that was built on the ruins of...

The 2009 New York African Film Festival, presented under the banner “Africa in Transition,” takes an introspective journey across the African continent with films that create a vision of Africa’s future through a deconstruction of its past. It has been 15 years since South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections. In mid-April of this year, South...