Tag: Stamped from the Beginning
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How Netflix’s ‘Strong Black Summer’ Campaign Formalized Black Hollywood’s Cultural Calendar
It might officially be fall, but Netflix had a “Strong Black Summer.”At least, that was the name of the streamer’s warm-weather months campaign promoting a string of TV, film and documentary projects fronted by Black talent.Among the hot titles were Gabrielle Union’s rom-com “The Perfect Find,” the John Boyega-starring conspiratorial caper “They Cloned Tyrone,” a…
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Gael García Bernal Is Career-Best in ‘Cassandro’: How Director Roger Ross Williams Chased Him to Play a Gay Luchador
There are a few documentarians who dabble in feature filmmaking: R.J. Cutler (“If I Stay”), Matt Heineman (“A Private War”), even Werner Herzog (there are many). To their ranks we can now add Oscar-winner Roger Ross Williams (“Music By Prudence”), and he’s all in on making it work.At Telluride, Williams screened his well-reviewed Sundance feature…