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A Filmmaker's Journey to Africa's Oscars: The Highs, Lows & Meeting Sissako by @AlligatorLegs http://t.co/X2auvzf2tZ pic.twitter.com/1cEsrLxrBU — Shadow And Act (@shadowandact) March 13, 2015 ...
Wonderful time speaking at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's After Afropolitan conference at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn. I screened my film, and was on a panel with Binyavanga Wainaina, Farai Gundan, and Zola Dube, moderated by Sean Jacobs of Africa Is a Country. An amazing experience! --AL. Earlier today at #AfterAfropolitan at @Weeksville Heritage Center cc @AlligatorLegs @YoliZama @BinyavangaW...
The recent Sony hacking debacle and release of The Interview has got me thinking a lot about the types of narratives coming out of Hollywood. I went online Christmas Day to see what all the fuss was about. What I watched was more or less an endless stream of slapstick, male-, and sex-centered jokes rife with gratuitous nudity and misogyny. The film's attempt to rise...
Check out my new Gawker essay! I submitted it on a whim, and am super excited they published it. Please comment, share, and spread the word! --AL. "Last week, I attended a screening of Ava DuVernay's Selma about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1965 voting rights marches of Alabama. Desperate for inspiration, fresh off my second rejection from Sundance Screenwriters Labs—this time, unlike last year's...
