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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Ya'Ke Smith, associate dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and an associate professor of film at the University of Texas at Austin.
OUR RIGHT TO GAZE: BLACK FILM IDENTITIES SEE EVENT DETAILS In this collection of six shorts, filmmakers gaze at themselves and their world, attempting to make sense of what they see reflected back. From gripping drama to heart-warming comedy, Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities features timely stories from Black artists that take us outside of the ordinary. Runtime: 82 mins. The "Paradox of Expectation"...it's the idea that wanting to rid yourself of expectations is a paradox - literally the expectation of no expectation. In these six films from emerging Black filmmakers, what the protag...
I can’t stop thinking about Fern in the snow. Played by Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao’s stunning “Nomadland,” the character is living out of her van, traveling the country after both an economic bust in her industrial community and her husband’s death have left her adrift. In a scene that stuck in my head even before Austin was blanketed in white and its worn-out residents were left to freeze, Fern finds herself somewhere out in empty America, the vistas searing, blank and frigid. A woman approaches the van and tries to get Fern to seek shelter at a Baptist church from...
The 78th Golden Globe Awards are scheduled for Feb. 28 and will be shown on NBC. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will return to host the ceremony, which they last led in 2015. The Golden Globes typically take place in January. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the awards, pushed the ceremony to February this year, citing the coronavirus pandemic. Streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon, dominated the list of nominees, both with their own films — like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “One Night in Miami,” which wouldn’t have relied on open movie the...
Yeah, in the San Francisco Bay area, Berkeley. A lot of people can get burned out on that subject matter. What keeps you interested in digging into the darker side of human behavior, now in the film world? I was magnetized to this world a bit as a kid. My dad was in the DA’s office depicted in Errol Morris' film, “The Thin Blue Line.” So as I grew up, he dragged me around to precincts and the courthouse and jails. I think his intention was that I would be scared straight, but instead, I kind of imprinted like a duck on the world and have been embedded in it ever since.