Menelek Lumumba

Writer/Director of 1 Angry Black Man

Nicholl Fellowship Quarter-Finalist

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

My heist feature GREEN made the QF round of the Nicholl Fellowship. #screenwriting #film

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

@MichaelRyanHahn @rgaudetteai @JoshDaws That's not cinema

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

A duck wearing a Mexico kit.

I’m moving to Mexico immediately 😂🇲🇽

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

@SamuelLJackson Hi, Sam. Big fan. I made an 8 part audio docu-series about the student lock-in at @morehouse in 1969. Would love to hear your thoughts on it! https://t.co/TGrHD2942p

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

Hey! Somebody tell @SamuelLJackson about my podcast THE A BUILDING. It tells the story of a legendary student protest at @Morehouse. He was there. We need his feedback. That is all. https://t.co/TGrHD29BRX

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

Thank you, Adrianne Curry...for having the guts to say what needed to be said.

[Adrianne Curry @AdrianneCurry]

Hollywood is so terrified of offending 0.00001% of the population that they destroyed all vision/art/storytelling.

The entire industry consists of insufferable, virtue signaling, HOA karens. 99% of what they pump out is absolute trash for stupid NPCs.

If someone "checks the boxes" matters more than talent.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

Imagine waking up and being Jason Whitlock

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Black men who earned their Oscars.
Sidney Poitier
Denzel Washington
Jamie Foxx
Forrest Whitaker
Will Smith

Black who won DEI Oscars
Michael B. Jordan

Sinners was hot garbage and Jordan's acting was mid at best.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

@envisionedluna Of Stack or Smoke?

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

You okay, bro?

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Jesse Jackson is a cautionary tale about the dangers of pursuing political power. Politics turned a Christian minister into a supporter of abortion, same-sex marriage, feminism, racial idolatry.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

You okay, bro?

[Tommy 'Tj' Sotomayor @tommysotogeist]

Stop spreading the lie that whites molest kids and blacks don’t when 3 out of 4 black women claim they were sexually assaulted before the age of 18. The difference is when blacks do it no one cares to do anything. Telling this lie keeps the cycle going and the abuse hidden. If u want to get back at whites that’s fine but lying and saying they abuse kids and blacks don’t keeps black abusers active and their abuse hidden and their victims voiceless!

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

How do you see yourself in all of this?

[DJ Vlad @djvlad]

Music is not universal. 50% of it is musical composition, and the other 50% is lyrics. If you don't speak any English, Nas isn't the greatest lyricist of all time. All you'll hear is jibberish over interesting beats. You're not experiencing the whole song. Just like when you listen to the greatest Chinese lyricist of all time.

The same went when I watched Bad Bunny's Half Time show. It looked great, the beats were interesting, but I didn't know a single song or understand anything he was saying. And he's a lyricist, not someone who mostly focuses on melodies - so he clearly had something important to say. I looked around, and all the non-Spanish-speaking people in the party were experiencing the same thing. And if you're being honest with yourself instead of being fake-progressive, you agree with me.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

You okay, bro?

[Tommy 'Tj' Sotomayor @tommysotogeist]

Blacks weren’t made slaves because people didn’t like their race, blacks were made slaves because they take to subjugation like a fish to water! Even blacks in America claim whites are so bad yet still beg whites for jobs, still beg to live with whites and beg for whites to find them attractive! If whites were as bad as blacks say they are then we would never want to date them, live near them or work for them. As a matter of fact we would literally treat them like the Palestinians treat the Israelis! We would be an insurgency and want our get back but we just want a check! We won’t even leave America nor go to war with whites. So stop the fake internet outrage and armchair revolutionary talk. Yall love and envy whites and wouldn’t know what to do without them!

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Kinko’s officially became FedEx Office in 2008. I still call it Kinko’s today.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

Not true. Listen to the DVD commentary.

[FilmX's Number One Fan @GAltringham]

Edward Norton says he took every penny he made from Red Dragon (2002) to finance this film.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

@21Naija Cinema sells more tickets than sporting events, concerts, live theater and amusement parks....COMBINED. everyone needs to relax.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

@vortexchan420 @DiscussingFilm Cinema is the number one live event in the world. Outselling, sports, concerts, and theme parks combined. "Nobody?"

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

Categorically untrue.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

#fax

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

I don't think you understand creative people or art.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Creators should LOVE Ai. AI doesn’t make uncreative people creative. It allows creators to become exponentially more creative.

Creative iteration that used to take hours , days or weeks, can happen in minutes.

The different routes you wanted to take but didn’t have the money or skill to do. Now you can do.

The number of gatekeepers drops every day and will eventually hit zero.

If you know how to tell a great story, you will LOVE AI.

99 % of content fails. With AI the cost and time it takes to experience and learn from those failures drop like a rock.

The people who should HATE AI are those that try to control distribution and the creative process because they are the ones that control platforms and tools.

It’s all going to change. Only this time it won’t take decades like it did with streaming.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

@T3Uncoupled There's nothing ambiguous about that film.

[Menelek Lumumba @mumba50]

@KidKayDlamini Or he could have kept rapping.