Today is 5 HEARTBEATS 35th ANNIVERSARY
Thanks to my friend co-writer @KeenenIvoryWayans CAST, CREW,FANS for making this a classic.If you haven’t seen the doc “MAKING the FIVE HEARTBEATS” it’s available on all platforms. As we say in the film “Got nothin but love for ya Baby!“
Stacey Muhammad talks about her artistic journey with Black Enterprise.
Abigail Horton writes an essay for No Film School about getting her film BLOW UP MY LIFE made over the pandemic with a nine person crew.
Christine Luby is directing the feature film BEAUTY FROM PAIN
Shout out to Gail Bean, Christina Brown, Stacey Muhammad, Oya Baby, Birgundi Baker, Luxelle Brokerage, Naya Ali, Emmai Alaquiva, Gabby Samone, Garcelle Beauvais, Blue Kimble, and Iantha Richardson for making 2025 another great year for this independent, BLACK-owned media company!
Today I opened The Director’s Vault, an archive of the work that built me.
I studied under Haile Gerima in my earliest years. He taught me that the camera carries responsibility.
“At a time like this, nobody has a right to ask me to entertain.” - HG
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Episode 4 of Cross is streaming. My 2nd episode this season. 4th time directing Aldis Hodge.
I wrote about directing Cross, intuition, and collaboration: “What Is Understood Doesn’t Have to Be Explained.” In The Director’s Notebook.
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Directing is a spiritual architecture.
It’s not just shots and coverage. It’s how memory, power, and ancestry live inside a visual frame.
I’ve launched The Director’s Notebook, place of study for directing as craft and calling.
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They arrested Don Lemon. This is horrifying. I don’t care what your political beliefs or leanings are, what journalism outlet you represent, this absolutely cannot stand.
Devastating news about Asad Haider. He was an inspiration - Viewpoint dug up buried treasures of Marxist theory, not as an end in itself but to enrich our political imagination, as his PhD thesis and his book on race and class brilliantly showcased https://t.co/DH2TiqGDp0