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BLACK BOYS Film Featured At Brand Storytelling 2022 – Sundance Film Festival

BlackBoys Film

NWJ’s film BLACK BOYS is streaming now on NBC’s Peacock ; it illuminates the dominant conversation and consciousness that some young people, particularly Black and brown boys, experience systemic barriers that result in unequal opportunity. Chosen as an official selection for Brand Storytelling 2022, BLACK BOYS is radically changing the cultural conversation but refuses to stop there.

Canada mourns the passing of influential filmmaker, Ivan Reitman – TIFF

and a beautiful way of looking at the world that made everything seem possible,” said Cameron Bailey, CEO of TIFF. “We’re shocked at his passing, but take comfort in the joy and laughter that he brought to so many all over the world.”

Here is the full list of 2022 Oscar nominations 

The nominations for the 2022 Academy Awards were announced early Tuesday morning by actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan. They came with the usual array of snubs and surprises.

Read moreHere is the full list of 2022 Oscar nominations 

Lata Mangeshkar Forever

Considered one of the greatest playback singers in Indian cinema, she received several film awards and honors like Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Dada Saheb Phalke Award, and multiple National Film Awards. A throwback of Lata Mangeshkar. (Image courtesy: latamangeshkar)New Delhi:  The Nightingale of India Lata Mangeshkar died in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Sunday. She was … Read moreLata Mangeshkar Forever

Sophia Ali returns with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in UNCHARTED

Sophia Ali returns to the big screen starring along with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in the new action adventure UNCHARTED which releases exclusively in theaters on February 18.  Ali is the lead actress of this globe-trotting film from Sony Pictures and plays Chloe Frazer, a treasure hunter in a race to find a $5 billion fortune.

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting and California’s American Indian & Indigenous Film Festival

Imagining the INdian

Imagining the Indian is a comprehensive examination of the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find demeaning and offensive.  Included among those is the former name and imagery of the Washington Football Team

Executive Producer Shaquille O’Neal, THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL

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director Ben Proudfoot and executive producer Shaquille O’Neal, THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL is an electrifying portrait of Lusia “Lucy” Harris who scored the first basket in women’s Olympic history, and was the first and only woman officially drafted into the N.B.A