Black directors

With A Dry White Season in 1989, Euzhan Palcy became the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film. She has been fighting the system ever since, and leading the way for a new generation of black female directors.

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Vanity Fair on Instagram: “"This is becoming a Jordan Peele trademark: a movie that doesn't so much disobey the rules of genre as it proves them secondary to the…”

Viola Davis. The Guardian Weekend Magazine.

Jessie Maple, the first Black woman to write and produce a full-length feature independent film, has died, her family has confirmed. She was 76.

Timothy Niwamanya provides an introduction to Ousmane Sembène, the first true African filmmaker and a legend of Cinema.

Euzhan Palcy is a pioneering writer, producer, and filmmaker. She is the first Black woman director produced by a major film studio (MGM), the only woman to direct Marlon Brando ( A Dry White Season ), and the first Black director to win the Cesar Award, France's highest film honor, for Sugar Cane

Released on Juneteenth, "(In)Visible Portraits" features intimate stories of Black scholars, Black girls and Black mothers.