Every year, some 30,000 primates, two-to-five million birds, and ten million reptile skins enter the Asian wild animal market, the third-largest illegal smuggling operation in the world. Photojournalist Patrick Brown goes deep inside this vast, dangerous world. He risks his own personal safety to…
BLACK MEMORABILIA moves beyond perverse attractions and absolute objections to collectibles and antiques that serve as reminders of America’s troubled racial history. The film combats a set of generalized stereotypes by presenting an intimate and poetic portrait of the people who consume, manufacture…
Black Men Loving is a film that challenges racial assumptions and stereotypes often associated with Black fathers in the media. Through short intimate profiles with men from Regent Park and across Toronto, the film shares a new perspective on Black fathers, as they take on parenthood in full stride.…
Ashley Antonia Lopez created a documentary feature called "Black Men Meet: Let’s Talk About Love." The feature has 8 Black Men talking about love. It shows that Black Men have love languages and they are trying their best every single day. The feature will open the conversation of how…
This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on LGBT sexualities in the African diaspora. The conference brought together an array of dynamic scholars, activists, and cultural workers including Essex Hemphill, Kobena Mercer, Barbara Smith, Urvashi Vaid, and…
An intimate and humorous look at the life and career of the legendary blues pianist Alex Moore, the first Black Texan to receive a National Heritage Fellowship. Moore taught himself to play the piano by watching others and practicing whenever he got a chance. Because he had no formal training Moore developed…
With each Russian missile attack targeting Ukranian critical infrastructure, the prospect of Christmas lights in Ukraine faded. The film shows stories from five cities: Odesa, Lviv, Pavlograd, Kharkiv, Kyiv, highlighting how Ukrainians reacted to this differently. A “energetic front” has…
For classroom and public screenings visit: https://www.twn.org/archives/retrospectives A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as well as an interview with Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver,…
Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19) A Short Documentary Film by Newsreel A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton as well as an interview with Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver,…
2 Historic Newsreel titles. In interviews, Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panthers, Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver explains their appeal to the Black community and Chairman Bobby Seals explains their 10 Point Program. SAN FRANCISCO STATE: ON STRIKE recounts how a student strike…
Black People Don’t Do That is a groundbreaking film that challenges stereotypes and redefines boundaries through the eyes of three Black men navigating independent yet interconnected stories. Inspired by the part-style filmmaking seen in skate and snowboard films, this cinematic journey explores…
Using documentary footage and in-depth interviews, "Black Power in America: Myth...or Reality?" (1986) examines how the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s changed the Black community and the rest of American society. The film profiles a group of successful African Americans working in professions…
