#african director

[noosphe-re]

Ousmane Sembène, Caméra d'Afrique (African Cinema: Filming Against All Odds)

[yourdailyqueer]

Tourmaline

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 20 July 1983

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Activist, artist, screenwriter, director, producer

[artfilmfan]

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson, 2023)

cinematography: Jomo Fray

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2025: [3/52] Animalia, dir. Sofia Alaoui (France/Morocco/Qatar, 2023)

The physical world is based on a more complex one. Like fish, who don’t see the water they’re in, we’re immersed in something we don’t see, either.

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𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀🍿🎬🎥 🎞️Richard Roundtree starred alongside Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Jim Kelly in the 1977 film One Down, Two to Go. This action-packed movie brought together these iconic actors from the Blaxploitation era, who were famous for their individual roles in popular 1970s films.

𝗟𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁:

𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲, Richard Arnold Roundtree (July 9, 1942 – October 24, 2023) 🕯️🕊️

𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆, James (Jim) Milton Kelly (May 5, 1946 – June 29, 2013) 🕯️🕊️

𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝘀𝗼𝗻, Frederick Robert Williamson (born March 5, 1938) - 86 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗹𝗱. 💐

𝗮𝗻𝗱

𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻, James Nathaniel Brown (Jim Brown ) (February 17, 1936 – May 18, 2023) 🕯️🕊️

[justinsaadiq]

jordan.

[unladyboss]

EMMANUEL ADAMU. ROBERT TOWNSEND. SYDNEY ADAMU AYO EDEBIRI. CHRISTOPHER STORER AND THE DIRECTOR'S GUILD ASSOCIATION. THE BEAR

The African American Steering Committee of the DGA held an appreciation night for Robert Townsend in August

Ayo/ Sydney was in England and had to send message via zoom.

However Christopher Storer who doesn't like to attend things in general showed up.

I'm proud of him. By this time he knew about everyone thinking Season 3 was trash and he'd probably been talked to about it. By this time he knew they'd make him attend the Emmys

He didn't stay for the group picture but I'm proud of him for putting aside anxiety and showing up

So many people honored him and his work

He talked and gave insight on some of his experiences in Hollywood including viewing hindrances as potential opportunities

This was phenomenal.

Ayo is gonna win for directing Napkins

[the-actual-ocean]

Psst

Mufasa dies

Spoilers!!!! Spoilers!!!! Spoiler alert!!!! AAAAA

[tllgrrl]

Adepero Oduye supporting and celebrating her friend, playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s work JA JA’s African Hair Braiding on its opening night on Broadway!

Black women Creatives out there supporting each other on stage and on the picket lines!

Love to see it!

[peachiyyy]

I don’t give a fuck about pronouncing European names correctly. I don’t know why bipoc are expected to be so well-versed in European culture or do ‘white people shit’ to be respected and taken seriously when our own cultures are rich, elegant, and beautiful. These people don’t even take two seconds out of their day to pronounce the easiest ethnic names but I have to know how to say every single Russian or French name properly or else I’ll be deemed as ‘unintelligent’? Don’t piss me off.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Eva Jessye

Singer, composer, and choral director Eva Jessye was born in 1895 in Coffeyville, Kansas. In 1926, Jessye founded the Dixie Jubilee Choir, which would later be renamed the Eva Jessye Choir. The choir recorded for major record labels and performed at the 1963 March on Washington. In 1935, George Gershwin selected Jessye as choral director for Porgy and Bess, and she would be involved with nearly every production of the show for the next thirty years. During her career, she also published a collection of traditional songs and composed three oratorios.

Eva Jessye died in 1992 at the age of 97.

Image source: New York Public Library

[onyx-collective]

Roger Ross Williams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award, and he is showing no signs of slowing down 📽️

[yourdailyqueer]

Mary P. Burrill (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: August 1881 

RIP: 13 March 1946

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Writer, playwright, professor, director, activist

[artfilmfan]

Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf, 2023)

[le-fils-de-lhomme]

Was looking at which African films have been nominated for Oscars. It seems to skew towards films from South Africa and north Africa but not that many projects from subsaharan Africa.

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