FILMS THAT are ‘looking into the past and the present to ask what possibilities the future holds,’ are front and centre of the upcoming Journeys across Afro-Futurism season at Barbican Cinema throughout June.
Canadian film and television producer Vince Buda (Brown Girl Begins, pictured right) and actor, writer and musician Matt Wells (Schitt’s Creek, pictured left) have announced the launch of a new .
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Lena Horne rehearses at the Cafe Moulin Rouge in Paris.
In How It Feels To Be Free, Alicia Keys, Halle Berry and Brown Girl Begins director Sharon Lewis pay tribute to the Black women entertainers and activists who made way for them.
Yoruba Richen’s documentary, produced by Canada’s YAP Films and executive produced by Alicia Keys, is a kaleidoscopic profile of icons Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier.
The film adapts Ruth Feldstein’s novel How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers And The Civil Rights Movement, narrating the unique struggle each woman faced when stepping on stage, on screen or into the political arena. They were fighting overt or systemic racism on all fronts.