?My baby?s life matters.? Unless we choose willful ignorance, we should all know that Black people in America have faced violence for a very long time. Sometimes that has happened at the hands of police. Sometimes it has happened in lynchings. But we need to remember that those who experience such events are individuals?someone?s friend…
It wasn?t supposed to go like that. After unexpectedly re-arranging the schedule to push Best Picture up and let the acting categories shine, the Academy clearly wanted to send a message. With the foregone conclusion that Chadwick Boseman would posthumously take Best Actor for his work in Ma Rainey?s Black Bottom, it was going to definitively…
Derek Chauvin is found guilty of murdering George Floyd. In this episode of the Your Sunday Drive podcast, we talk about the trial, the verdict and the related issues: race, racism and justice in America; the influence of politics and media; policing and how race is related; what this event could mean for the future….
When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences include three categories of short films in their Oscar ? presentations. Most people don?t get to see many shorts. They play at festivals, and occasionally in front of a feature film. But short films are…
When it is time to award the best in films each year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences include three categories of short films in their Oscar? presentations. Most people don?t get to see many shorts. They play at festivals, and occasionally in front of a feature film. But short films are an…
?You can murder a freedom fighter but you can?t murder freedom.? ? Fred Hammond (Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah) Set in the midst of the civil rights movement of the late 1960s, Judas and the Black Messiah tells the true story of William O?Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), a young thief arrested for stealing a car. Facing serious…
Like creating great music, it?s important that every member of a film?s cast is on the same page. Thankfully, in the case of Ma Rainey?s Black Bottom, the cast are not only in sync with one another. They?re in perfect harmony. Set in 1920s Chicago,?Ma Rainey?s Black Bottom?takes place over the course of an afternoon as…
Directed by Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, Black Bodies is a short film on what it currently means to be black in America. Told through spoken word, the viewer experiences the major issues affecting the black community as a result of centuries of systemic discrimination, including police brutality and the disadvantages they have solely based on the colour of…
We, at ScreenFish, believe that we are all created in God?s image and want to show our support where we can to those in the Black Community who continue to battle against systemic racism. While our team strives for diversity, we can always do better ourselves in giving voice to those who need the chance…
Picking up from our last episode, we revisit Black Lives Matter, unpacking it as a value statement vs. a political statement, how the situation has developed over the past few weeks with defund the police movements and the death of Rayshard Brooks, and the potential dangers of “woke anti-racism” as a secular religion (a la…
