Civil rights icon, activist and trailblazer Ruby Bridges appeared in the special interstitial Circle Time with Miss Ruby & Jessica on the Cartoon Network which premiered today. The short features Bridges along with an animated Jessica (voiced by Lucia...
BlackStar Projects has set the lineup of films and events for the 10th annual BlackStar Film Festival. The festival will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person events in Philadelphia which will kick off on August 4 through August 8. The 2021 BlackStar Film Festival...
As the all-inclusive Bentonville Film Festival gets underway, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media partnered with the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) and Gold House, for study entitled, “I Am Not a Fetish or Model Minority:...
Tony Award and Grammy-winning producer Jhett Tolentino is set to make his feature directorial debut with the romantic comedy Asian Persuasion. Written by Mike Ang, the film features an all-Asian cast including Dante Basco, Toni Gonzaga, Paolo Montalban, Celia Au,...
Non-profit entertainment organization Diverso has launched the first-ever paid summer fellowship program for Black student screenwriters called Black Writers in Focus (BWIF). This year, Diverso welcomed its inaugural group of screenwriter mentors Joe Robert Cole...
Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the Megan Park-directed riveting drama The Fallout starring Jenna Ortega. The film will be released exclusively on HBO Max and is set to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in the balance of international...
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY has announced their inaugural masterclass with celebrated Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima. Applications are now being accepted until August 9 for the Los Angeles-based intensive workshop, being led by the legendary figure of the L.A. Rebellion...
Lana Condor is set to star in the action-comedy Take Out at Hulu. The new series comes from Randall Park, Michael Golamco and Hieu Ho who will executive produce under their Imminent Collision production shingle alongside the The To All the Boys star. The series...
There are many things running through the Hollywood pipeline of news this week, but it seems like the only thing of importance is the casting of queen Michaela Coel in the forthcoming Ryan Coogler-directed Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel Black Panther: Wakanda...
