Documentary Film

by Leslie Fields-Cruz This year’s PitchBLACK Forum & Awards program marks the sixth time Black Public Media has hosted this now annual celebration of Black media story tellers. What started out as a biennial event just for the nonfiction storytellers who participated in our 360 Incubator+ program has grown into…

by Ruun Nuur & Ingrid Raphaël Afrofuturism [ af-roh-fyoo-chuh-riz-uhm ] noun speculative fiction that treats African American themes and addresses African American concerns in the context of twentieth century technoculture — and, more generally, African American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future.

Also, AfroPoP Season XV starts next Monday, April 3 by Leslie Fields-Cruz We recently confirmed that Brittany Luse, host of It’s Been a Minute, NPR’s show on culture and society, will join us at next month’s PitchBLACK Awards. She’ll conduct a fireside chat with our 2023 BPM Trailblazer, Yoruba Richen…

Use of the documentary format to portray national issues Films have long been an avenue for people to show current social and political issues for their countries. Filmmakers know that they have a powerful tool in their hands. Films can “enlighten, inspire and even at times enrage”; it is a reflection…

By Karim Ahmad The non-profit media arts industry has an accountability problem. The institutions that make up this field do exceptional work uplifting artists individually and collectively, yet inevitable oversights occur. For example, inauthentic, stereotypical, or even harmful depictions of marginalized peoples might perhaps be supported with funding, a valuable…

Bottom Line This is the third documentary film by retired police detective, David Paulides, and it is as chilling and compelling as the previous two, if not more. Paulides has, over the last eleven years, written several books about people that have gone missing in the woods and in the park systems…

In 2014, my wife and I moved to Dubai. I had been working in the trenches in NYC for years as an editor and producer for many networks and post-production companies, as well as a professor of video and film at The New School graduate program in Media Studies. …

Today, I watched a documentary “The Elephant Whisperers”. I loved watching animal based documentaries, movies, series, shows, animation. The documentary is all about the balanced relationship, attachment, sentiments between two living beings i.e; the one who can speak and the one who cannot. It also depicts that happiness is contagious. Also shows their issues in surviving with the changing climate, especially forest fire, flash floods, lack of food, water etc. Nevertheless, its the love, emotion that binds living being together with nature and matter the most. A must watch documentary on Netflix. Highly recommended!!!!!

call me now! — Youll find quite the treat on HBOmax right now. Call me Miss Cleo. Yes, that Miss Cleo. Youree Harris. Her amusing Psychic Readers Network infomercials were an iconic part of the late 90s. For 6 wonderful years she misled people about affairs, paternity and future fortunes. Who could forget…