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Black Reel Award For Outstanding Emerging Director
This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award The Black Reel Awards, or BRAs, is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) to recognize excellence of African Americans, as well as the cinematic achievements of the Afr ... for Outstanding Emerging Director. The award is given to the directors for their first directorial debut. Winners and nominees 2010s 2020s References {{Black Reel Awards Emerging Director Directorial debut film awards Awards established in 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cord Jefferson
Cord Jefferson is a television writer, journalist, and essayist who has worked on the TV series ''Watchmen'', ''Succession'', ''The Good Place'', and ''Master of None''. He is the recipient of an Emmy Award, NAACP Image Award, and two Writers Guild of America Awards. Early life Cord Jefferson was born in Tucson, Arizona to a white mother and black father. His father is an attorney. After his family lived outside the US for a few years until he was about 5 or 6 years old, he grew up in Tucson. His mother’s father was shocked by her choice to marry a black man and shut her and his grandson out of his life. His parents divorced when he was 14 years old, after he finished his first year of high school. He attended the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he was one of a low number of biracial or black people. His father had attended law school there. After college he lived in Los Angeles and in Brooklyn, New York. His mother died in 2016, of cancer. When his father ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damon Davis
Damon Davis (born 1985) is a multi-media American artist, musician and filmmaker based in St. Louis, Missouri. His 2014 public art installation "All Hands on Deck" has been collected in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He is also a founder of Far-Fetched, a St. Louis-based artist collective, and co-director of ''Whose Streets?'', a documentary on the Ferguson unrest following police officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. Early life The child of a sharecropper (his mother) and a Black Panther (his father), Davis grew up in East St. Louis. He attended St. Louis University, initially majoring in fine arts but graduating with a degree in communications. Career Davis has worked as a professional artist since 2010. Music Davis formed the hiphop duo Scriptz 'N Screwz in 2011, in which he participated using the stage name LooseScrewz. He next founded artist collective and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Reel Awards Of 2020
The 20th Annual Black Reel Awards ceremony, presented by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) and honoring the best films of 2019, took place on February 6, 2020. During the ceremony, FAAAF presented the Black Reel Awards in 23 categories. The nominations were announced on December 11, 2019. ''Queen & Slim'' earned a leading fourteen nominations, followed by '' Us'' and ''Dolemite Is My Name'' with eleven and ten nominations, respectively. The 4th Annual Black Reel Awards for Television was presented on August 6, 2020. The nominations were announced on June 18, 2020. HBO's Watchmen ''Watchmen'' is an American comic book maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 before being collected in a single-vo ... & Insecure lead the nominees with 10 each. Watchmen became the biggest winner, earning 5 BRATs including Outstand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsters And Men
''Monsters and Men'' is a 2018 American drama film written and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. It was screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. It was released on September 28, 2018, by Neon. Although not explicitly stated, the plot shows a similarity with the killing of Eric Garner incident, by which the film was inspired. Plot The film is told in three intertwined stories of three principle characters: Manny, Dennis and Zyrick. The film begins with Dennis Williams being pulled over by police but let go because he is a cop himself. The story switches to Manny Ortega trying to apply for a job, but hesitates on the convicted felon section of the application. Manny lives with his family including wife Marisol, mother and daughter. Manny goes out to hang out with some of his friends when a cop rolls up near their dice game. In an incident very similar to Eric Garner's death, six police officers attempt to arrest Darius Larson, a frien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quincy (film)
''Quincy'' is a 2018 American documentary film about the life of American record producer, singer and film producer Quincy Jones. The film was co-written and co-directed by Alan Hicks and Rashida Jones and produced by Paula DuPré Pesmen. The film was released by Netflix on September 21, 2018. The film won a Grammy Award for Best Music Film at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Production The documentary is co-directed by Jones' daughter Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks. It was produced by Paula DuPré Pesmen, and executive produced by Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh for TriBeCa Productions and Adam Fell for Quincy Jones Productions. On August 1, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had acquired the documentary film about Quincy Jones. Epilogue The film epilogue details his career as follows: "Over 2,900 songs recorded; over 300 albums recorded; 51 film and television scores; over 1,000 original compositions; 79 Grammy nominations; 27 Grammy awards; 1 of 18 List of EGOT winners, EGOT winners (E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rashida Jones
Rashida Leah Jones (; born February 25, 1976) is an American actress. Jones appeared as Louisa Fenn on the Fox drama series '' Boston Public'' (2000–2002), as Karen Filippelli on the NBC comedy series ''The Office'' (2006–2009; 2011), and as Ann Perkins on the NBC comedy series ''Parks and Recreation'' (2009–2015). From 2016 to 2019, Jones starred as the lead eponymous role in the TBS comedy series '' Angie Tribeca'', and in 2020, Jones starred as Joya Barris in the Netflix series '' #blackAF''. Jones also appeared in the films '' I Love You, Man'' (2009), '' The Social Network'' (2010), '' Our Idiot Brother'' (2011), ''The Muppets'' (2011), '' Celeste and Jesse Forever'' (2012), which she co-wrote, and '' Tag'' (2018). Jones also co-wrote the story of '' Toy Story 4'' (2019). She worked as a producer on the film '' Hot Girls Wanted'' (2015) and the series '' Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On'' (2017), directing the first episode of the latter. Both works explore the sex ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yardie (film)
''Yardie'' is a 2018 British crime drama film directed by Idris Elba, in his feature directorial debut, and starring Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, and Everaldo Creary. It is based on the novel of the same name by Jamaican-born writer Victor Headley. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Plot Dennis "D" Campbell lives with his peace-loving brother Jerry Dread in 1973 West Kingston, Jamaica. D loves a local schoolgirl named Yvonne but their relationship is hindered by an ongoing gang war between the Tappas, led by Skeeter, and the Spicers, led by King Fox. Tired of the violence and destruction in the streets, Jerry Dread organises a DJ session between the two gangs' territories, hoping to broker peace. As peace is about to be achieved, Jerry Dread is shot and killed by Clancy Hibbert, a classmate of D who he witnesses. In 1983, D had become a hardened enforcer for Fox, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idris Elba
Idrissa Akuna Elba (; born 6 September 1972) is an English actor."Idris Elba Interview: The Hustler" Esquire. Retrieved 18 April 2016 An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London, he is known for roles including Stringer Bell in the HBO series '' The Wire'', [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorry To Bother You
''Sorry to Bother You'' is a 2018 American surrealist black comedy film written and directed by Boots Riley, in his directorial debut. It stars Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, and Armie Hammer. The film follows a young black telemarketer who adopts a white accent to succeed at his job. Swept into a corporate conspiracy, he must choose between profit and joining his activist friends to organize labor. Principal photography began in June 2017 in Oakland, California. ''Sorry to Bother You'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 6, 2018, by Annapurna Pictures through Mirror Releasing. The film received critical acclaim for its cast, concept, and soundtrack, as well as Riley's screenplay and direction. Plot Cassius "Cash" Green lives in his uncle Sergio's garage with his girlfriend, Detroit, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boots Riley
Raymond Lawrence "Boots" Riley (born April 1, 1971), is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial debut with '' Sorry to Bother You'' (released July 2018), which he also wrote. Early life Riley was born in 1971 in Chicago into a family of social justice organizers. He is the son of Walter Riley, an African-American attorney, and Anitra Patterson, whose father was African-American, while her mother (Boots' maternal grandmother) was a Jewish refugee from Königsberg who fled Europe with her parents as a teenager in 1938. He is the second youngest of five siblings. By the time Boots was one, his family moved to Detroit and when he was six they moved to Oakland, where he later attended Oakland High School. When the school faced cutbacks in the 1980s, 2000 of Oakland High's 2200 students protested by participating in a walkout organized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Reel Awards Of 2019
The 19th Annual Black Reel Awards ceremony, presented by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) and honoring the best films of 2018, took place on February 7, 2019, at 8:00 p.m. EST (5:00 p.m. PST). During the ceremony, FAAAF presented the Black Reel Awards in 23 categories. Black Panther (film) lead the nominations with a record-breaking 18 nominations followed by If Beale Street Could Talk and BlacKkKlansman with 14 and 11 nominations respectively. This marks the first year that Outstanding achievements in Costume Design, Cinematography and Production Design were recognized by the voting academy. The 3rd Annual Black Reel Awards for Television was presented by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) and honoring the best in television from June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2019, took place on August 1, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. EST (5:00 p.m. PST). When They See Us lead the nominations with a record- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Dreams
''Imperial Dreams'' is an American drama film written and directed by Malik Vitthal. The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014. It won the ''Audience Award'' at the festival. The film was released as a Netflix original film on February 3, 2017. Plot A 21-year-old reformed gangster Bambi's devotion to his family, particularly his son Daytone, and his family's future are put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his violent old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles. Themes include mass incarceration, the importance of education, racial profiling by police, and the many obstacles present in the system that prevent those interested in rehabilitation from surviving when placed back in society. Cast * John Boyega as Bambi * Rotimi Akinosho as Wayne * Keke Palmer as Samaara * Glenn Plummer as Uncle Shrimp * Kellita Smith as Tanya * De'Aundre Bonds as Gideon * Sufe Bradshaw as Detective Gill * Jernard Burks as Cornell * No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
