The winners of the Royal Television Society, Northern Ireland (RTS NI) 8th Programme Awards were announced last night with the Brian Waddell Award for Outstanding Contribution to the local television and film industry in NI going to Belfast actor James Martin.
Derry Girls and James Martin were amongst the winners of the Royal Television Society, Northern Ireland (RTS NI) Programme Awards were announced at a glittering awards ceremony in City Hall last night.
The Royal Television Society, Northern Ireland (RTS NI) has revealed the 37 nominees shortlisted for this year’s prestigious RTS NI Programme Awards, sponsore
while mcdaniel may have broken barriers in collecting her award, she was forced to sit at the back of the ballroom during the ceremony, away from her cast mates because she was black. she gave a very dignified speech. i sincerely hope i shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. the exhibition also features numerous works from over the decades, including props, posters and footage of race films, films that had a black cast and were made mostly between 1915 and the 1950s for african american audiences. in many ways, it s a prehistory to what many people think is the start of black cinema in the early 1970s. there were these blax ploitation films i don t know if you remember these shaft. ..super fly. we wanted to demonstrate to people that there are 80 years of film making that preceded that moment. did it surprise you, as you put the exhibition together, about how much work had been done by black people in cinema going back decades?