RASIE

4y

@YoungNastyShawty Continued from above cause it wouldn't let me post all the suggestions in one reply for some reason...

• Patrick Wang – independent American filmmaker. He graduated from MIT with a degree in Economics, but started directing stage productions and making films in his free time. His first film In the Family (2011) got some solid acclaim and exposure during its initial run. But his 2 films since — The Grief of Others and A Bread Factory (Parts 1 & 2) — have flown under the radar (seemingly because "making it big" isn't on his list of priorities, aside from having an extremely tiny marketing budget). All 3 of the films are amazing too, available to rent from his Vimeo or on DVD/Blu from Amazon. He shouldn't be difficult to get ahold of either.

• Charles Burnett – Arguably one of the best working and unfortunately neglected African American filmmaker for the past half century, and just celebrated his 76th birthday a couple months ago. His notoriety has gotten a little boost in the past several years thanks to boutique home media distributors releasing a couple of his films on blu-ray (e.g., Criterion's recent release of To Sleep with Anger). But he's got so many films that deserve to be screened to packed theaters... Nightjohn is an incredible film about literacy during slavery (produced by Disney no less, probably one of the last truly great and honest things that company has attached their name to). "Several Friends" is a 1969 short film about unemployed black men, and possibly one of the first realistic depictions of black American "street" culture that isn't watered down for white audiences to understand easier. The Glass Shield from 1994 has very similar vibes to Get Out, where a black guy becomes a police officer and slowly realizes the racist/sexist "us vs them" culture in the department (and co-stars Ice Cube). And many others...

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

4y

I'm halfway through but Great interview so far

CLB Wineboy

4y

this is a great interview man..

YoungNastyShawty

4y

Ima deftly Tap in wit these boys

CLB Wineboy

4y

Just finished...

Man oh man

This was a great conversation between 2 black men from totally different generations. You guys talked about the Past, Present and Future and there's ALOT you guys related on and that was one of the fascinating points of this.

Had no idea who this guy was but im def gonna watch CSA and some of his other work

Thank you YNS.

Saturday

4y

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