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A Black Panthers leader. A couple in love in midcentury America. A beauty queen who wants better for her daughter.
We recently asked an Austin expert for recommended movies to watch this Black History Month. Ya ke Smith is an associate professor of film at the University of Texas, as well as the Moody College of Communication s first associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion. He s also a celebrated filmmaker in his own right: Smith s debut feature, Wolf, premiered at South by Southwest in 2012, and shorts like Katrina s Son, Brother and dawn. have found audiences across the country.
Here are a few of the stories told by Black filmmakers that Smith thinks you should watch, in his own words.
The Dig
Wonderful, moving dramatisation of the 1939 dig at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk that unearthed an Anglo-Saxon ship burial and a hoard of buried treasure. Ralph Fiennes is Basil Brown, the self-taught archaeologist who made the discovery.
Wonderful, moving dramatisation of the 1939 dig at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. Ralph Fiennes (above) is Basil Brown, the self-taught archaeologist who made the discovery
Carey Mulligan is Edith Pretty, the ailing landowner with whom he forms a bond. Both give fabulous performances and the cinematography is stunning. The find meant that historians’ view of the ‘Dark Ages’ had to be revised and took on a special significance on the eve of the Second World War. From Friday
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Eva, who shares her two-year-old son Santiago Enrique Bastón, with husband José Bastón, 52, claims she s been overwhelmed with emotion amid the global coronavirus pandemic. It’s made everything I do, especially my philanthropic and charity work, more intense. It’s like, I have to do something!
Doing it for her son: Eva admits that becoming a mother to her son Santiago (right) has inspired her to aim higher in regards to her philanthropic and charity work also
Glam couple: Eva (left) married husband José Bastón in 2016. Pictured together at the 2019 amFAR Cannes Gala event
In recent years, Eva has used her fame to assist with charitable causes, whether it be promoting global gender equality movements like Time s Up, or focusing on helping those in her community.