Marc Boothe News Today

When the Black Film Bulletin emerged out of the BFI’s former African Caribbean Unit in spring 1993, its debut issues chronicled both the prolific new wave of Black cinema across the diaspora in the early 1990s and the timely openings of Europe’s first Black-owned film exhibition venues. Thirty years on, one of the UK’s leading Black cinema exhibition platforms, We Are Parable, marks its own ten-year anniversary. Cofounder Anthony Andrews reflects on its rise, the collectives that came befo...

When the Black Film Bulletin emerged out of the BFI’s former African Caribbean Unit in spring 1993, its debut issues chronicled both the prolific new wave of Black cinema across the diaspora in the early 1990s and the timely openings of Europe’s first Black-owned film exhibition venues. Thirty years on, one of the UK’s leading Black cinema exhibition platforms, We Are Parable, marks its own ten-year anniversary. Cofounder Anthony Andrews reflects on its rise, the collectives that came befo...

Hailed by many as the renaissance era that birthed a prolific new wave of Black cinematic content, symbolically, the early 1990s also ushered in groundbreaking cultural expansions in film exhibition and saw the dawn of Europe’s first Black-helmed film venues. The Black Film Bulletin’s first editions launched in the Spring of 1993 – its emergence from the BFI’s former African Caribbean Unit undoubtedly inspired by the zeitgeist. To commemorate the BFB’s 30th anniversary, founding editor...