Tchaiko 🇯🇲🇬🇾🇲🇿🇹🇭🇸🇱🇾🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸

#ThirdCultureKid #Fairy #BlackFilmmakingMama (she/her)
Feature: #eatingdisorders
TV: Queen Sugar, Cherish The Day, Sacrifice, Good Trouble

[Tchaiko 🇯🇲🇬🇾🇲🇿🇹🇭🇸🇱🇾🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 @tchaiko]

BLACK GIRLS HAVE EATING DISORDERS TOO!
Solace avail on Amazon, ITunes, On Demand. A coming-of-age film ft @HopeOlaide @MsLynnWhitfield, @GlynnTurman @ChelseaTavares @Luku650
Dir: @tchaiko
🎥 : @franciscole
🎶: @OfficialMeshell
Co-production @morgansmark
https://t.co/NITPao6oij

[ThePenAndPaper @the_penandpaper]

Free PDF 📚: On Being Human as Praxis by Sylvia Wynter

Link 🔗: https://t.co/Faq44HSsYt

Click image for alt text + Book Summary 📖

[Jamaica Observer @JamaicaObserver]

Scores of protesters marched in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew on Saturday expressing support for Palestine and demanding that the Jamaican government cut diplomatic ties with Israel.

https://t.co/N2iBIwTGrX

[Tchaiko 🇯🇲🇬🇾🇲🇿🇹🇭🇸🇱🇾🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 @tchaiko]

just got my annual subscription

[Akoroko — African Cinema Now! @akorokoafrica]

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Here are the headlines for just some of the items sent to subscribers this week:

1. Cannes 2024: A Preview of African Narratives On and Off the Screen at the 77th Cannes Film Festival + Marché du Film (North African Domination Continues)

2. "Transformative" African Audiovisual and Cinema Commission (AACC) Launches in Kenya, Paving the Way for a United African Cinema Industry (Full Story + Analysis)

3. New FOPICA-Backed Documentary Chronicles How the Tijaniyya Brotherhood Forged a Spiritual Link Between Morocco and Senegal (History + Heritage)

4. New South African Film and TV Sector Fund: "First of Its Kind" to Raise R10.2 Billion ($550 Million) to Transform Creative Industry

5. Cannes 2024: These Are the Financiers Behind the African Films (or Films Telling African Stories) in the Lineup. What Can We Learn? And Where Is the African Presence? (Analysis)

6. ECOWAS Finally Moves on Long-Delayed ECOFEST: Inaugural Event Set for September in Abidjan Will Celebrate West African Cultural Diversity via Cinema, Art, Fashion (Sign of the Times!)

7. Cannes 2024: One Strategic Consideration for African Filmmakers Targeting the International Marketplace: Low-Budget Arthouse Horror

8. Cannes 2024: Omar Sy Joins Mati Diop, Ladj Ly, Alain Gomis and Governmental Efforts in Shaping Senegal's Cinematic Future

9. ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL Review (Cannes 2024): Rungano Nyoni Blends Dark Humor and Social Critique to Confront Family Secrets and Cultural Legacies

10. Cannes 2024: Meet DEENTAL ACP's Six Emerging Producers and Their Projects at the Marché - DRC, Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania

11. Cannes 2024: Logical Pictures Announces New African Film and TV Funding Venture, Aims to Become Key Player Across Francophone and Anglophone Africa

12. DAHOMEY: Mati Diop Receives High Praise at Rare Early Senegalese Premiere, a "True Luminary"

13. Cannes 2024: South Africa & Netherlands Renew Co-Development Initiative, Add Production Support

14. Strengthening Uganda's Media Landscape: MultiChoice and Ministry of ICT Ink Key MoU

15. EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA Review (Cannes 2024): A Solid Entry Into Nabil Ayouch's Cinematic Examinations of the Role and Resilience of Women in Moroccan Society

16. Cannes 2024: Madagascar's Rencontres du Film Court Presents "Cinémalagasy Collection" at Marché Amid Cultural Surge Through Cinema

17. Chad Readies New Wave of Filmmakers as FESPACO 2025 Guest of Honor. But Will Its Most Prominent, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Return?

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[Cree Summer @IAmCreeSummer]

This is in honor of Cassie and @sistadbarnes and all of the Women fighting for their lives and truths to be recognized and protected 🏴‍☠️ Thank you Pat Parker for your words @thehillmanfiles

[Queerly Stated @QueerlyStatedJA]

Jamaica has a rich history of showing solidarity with groups of people across the world fighting against colonisers for their liberation, now the Jamaican government is disrespecting that history by maintaining ties with Israel.

#JamaicansforPalestine
#FreePalestine

[Tchaiko 🇯🇲🇬🇾🇲🇿🇹🇭🇸🇱🇾🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 @tchaiko]

I am so warmed by this thread! Can’t wait for the world to see what more we do together @famekid -

[D$ @famekid]

In a serendipitous way, “Solace” made me realize things about the women in my life, and my view on self and trauma. Thank you @tchaiko! So happy this was recognized because it was and is absolutely important and relevant… especially having two little sisters.

[D$ @famekid]

Shoutout to @tchaiko for her grace and openness in allowing me to be a part of “Solace.” It was an honor learning from one of the most generous humans I had the pleasure of living and working and making with, in her unique journey as a black woman. I reflect heavily often.

[Red Jesus @RedJesus65]

@DEADLINE This strike is part of a larger struggle of working people across the US & Europe. Transnational Capital forces have combined to degrade the living & working conditions of all working men & women wherever they’re employed, & the Arts are no exception #SAGAFTRA #SAGstrike #WGA

[Tambay Obenson @TambayObenson]

"These scans have already been happening..." 😖

[Tchaiko 🇯🇲🇬🇾🇲🇿🇹🇭🇸🇱🇾🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 @tchaiko]

hahahaha

[Akilah Green @akilahgreen]

Studios underrated how hard it is to break ppl who know what it’s like to sell every appliance in their apt to make rent, but we’re also in the most thin-obsessed industry picketing in the most thin-obsessed city at a time when everyone’s obsessed w/ getting their steps in. Pls.

[Tambay Obenson @TambayObenson]

"And even if I never get to make another film, just look at the film I made." ~ Sam Greenlee

[Tchaiko 🇯🇲🇬🇾🇲🇿🇹🇭🇸🇱🇾🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 @tchaiko]

ahhhhhh can't wait

[Tambay Obenson @TambayObenson]

New work from Ben Okri coming this fall...

[Cheo Hodari Coker @cheo_coker]

Seeing some writers discouraged because they're having to take dayjobs. Keep your head up. Do what you have to do. I was a full time freelance journalist until I was 38 years old and landed SouthLAnd. Toni Morrison didn't sell The Bluest Eye until she was 39 years old...

[Tambay Obenson @TambayObenson]

One of Sub-Saharan Africa's earliest filmmakers, post-colonial period. And one of the few still alive. His 1970s work is hard to find. But the films he's most known for are *accessible*. Watch YEELEN (1987) on @Kanopy. The whereabouts of other title, FINYE (1982) a mystery.

[Art Fans Zone @artfanszone]

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has acquired a series of five Shylights by the Amsterdam-based art and design workshop Studio Drift, whose work explores the intersection of nature and technology.

[Tchaiko 🇯🇲🇬🇾🇲🇿🇹🇭🇸🇱🇾🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 @tchaiko]

CAN WE GET A PETITION GOING FOR SOME OTHER NETWORK TO PICK UP SOUTHSIDE? HBO cancelled this gem, this show that cracks me up no matter how many times I watch it!! @BET @AmazonStudios

[Tchaiko 🇯🇲🇬🇾🇲🇿🇹🇭🇸🇱🇾🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 @tchaiko]

these are some of my faves

[kyle alex brett @kyalbr]

I’m on Episode 3 of Swarm.

And again asking that some publication hosts a video roundtable with the young, black actresses of television.

They’re clearly having a moment and it would be nice to hear a conversation between them.