For my sixth annual 28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month list, the films enter fundamental Black stories and truths. The films below
The films on this year’s list serve as a reminder
an ever expanding list 🌀🌀🌀🌀 through my work as incoming president / owner of milestone films.
When the World Broke Open takes a cinematic look at New Orleans—a city of pleasure, politics, and pulsating prose that lives in the heart of anyone who seen its beauty—before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina, the
"a matter of life and death" (1946) is notably my current favorite film (and has been for several years now). i am always searching for the feeling of watching it for the first time again. this
across two nights (on 3/6 and 3/13), i will make my TCM co-hosting debut with a program i curated. here are the films i’m excited to discuss at length with TCM host Jacqueline Stewart in the
The question on my mind this Black History Month is: How we will wage against the fire this time? I write this as a new Angeleno and Katrina survivor who knows we are all moments away
The films on this year's list are centered on tenderness and are in conversation with the desires planted in our lives at birth: to dream of a world of love and care; to give voice to
In building the third annual edition of 28 films for the 28 days of Black History Month, I thought about Black Film Archive’s genesis. My initial pursuit through Black cinematic history was a formalized curiosity that