This festival season brought with it a pair of ambitious adaptations of scholarly texts. In Venice, Ava DuVernay premiered Origin, a narrative take on Isabel Wilkerson’s tome, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The Selma director anchored her adaptation in a tender love story, using Wilkerson’s personal life to understand the intellectual and emotional labor supporting the book’s framework. And at the Toronto International Film Festival, Roger Ross Williams debuted his own film translation of an influential text on race.
In Stamped From the Beginning, Williams uses Ibram X. Kendi’s book of the same name to recast the narrators of Black history. The documentary, which will premiere on Netflix in November, convenes contemporary Black women scholars and organizers to synthesize and contextualize Kendi’s central thesis. The author makes the briefest appearances throughout the film, attesting to Williams’ mission to center Black women.
There’s a...
In Stamped From the Beginning, Williams uses Ibram X. Kendi’s book of the same name to recast the narrators of Black history. The documentary, which will premiere on Netflix in November, convenes contemporary Black women scholars and organizers to synthesize and contextualize Kendi’s central thesis. The author makes the briefest appearances throughout the film, attesting to Williams’ mission to center Black women.
There’s a...
- 9/19/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If your education was only gleaned from the American public school system, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks may be the only Black historical figures you know. The limited overview of the Civil Rights movement and slavery is at stake when schools, government, and other authoritative bodies whitewash dark annals of the country’s foundation in today’s direction of banning the passage of the past to future generations. Yet Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams inhibits America’s violent chapters, taboo portions, and past Presidents from being forgotten in his newest film, Stamped From the Beginning.
His adaptation of scholar Ibram X. Kendi’s book of the same name observes how America imbued concept of race from the 1500s to the present. He deploys a vast archive of past media (including snippets of Omar Little and Officer Alonso Harris reinforcing the criminalization of Black people) that degraded Black people,...
His adaptation of scholar Ibram X. Kendi’s book of the same name observes how America imbued concept of race from the 1500s to the present. He deploys a vast archive of past media (including snippets of Omar Little and Officer Alonso Harris reinforcing the criminalization of Black people) that degraded Black people,...
- 9/12/2023
- by Edward Frumkin
- The Film Stage
Amazon Studios’ All In: The Fight for Democracy examines the history of voter suppression in the U.S. Stacey Abrams, the Georgia politician and lawyer, stars in and produces the documentary directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés that spotlights those who fought against voter suppression, and those still fighting today.
The documentary’s script, an Emmy nominee in the Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program category, puts Abrams’ 2018 run to become the first African-American governor of Georgia at the heart of the story. Ultimately she lost by a razor-thin margin, refusing to concede given evidence that the vote was rigged.
Here, the Emmy-nominated writer of the script — Jack Youngelson — answers some questions about his work as part of Deadline’s It Starts on the Page, a series showcasing scripts from this year’s Emmy-nominated programs and the writers who brought them to life.
Deadline: What inspired you to work on the project?...
The documentary’s script, an Emmy nominee in the Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program category, puts Abrams’ 2018 run to become the first African-American governor of Georgia at the heart of the story. Ultimately she lost by a razor-thin margin, refusing to concede given evidence that the vote was rigged.
Here, the Emmy-nominated writer of the script — Jack Youngelson — answers some questions about his work as part of Deadline’s It Starts on the Page, a series showcasing scripts from this year’s Emmy-nominated programs and the writers who brought them to life.
Deadline: What inspired you to work on the project?...
- 8/12/2021
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
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LeVar Burton’s dream of hosting ‘Jeopardy’ has been a decade in the making, and it finally came true on Monday with Burton kicking off his run as guest host of the long-running quiz show. From “Reading Rainbow” to “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and now “Jeopardy,” the 64-year-old actor has been educating viewers for years — and he really loves books. No, seriously, he’s a book fanatic.
Besides helping millions of kids fall in love with reading, Burton has written several books of his own, including novels and children’s books such as, “The Rhino That Swallowed the Storm.” He’s also narrated books for other authors, hosted public book readings via the “LeVar Burton Reads” podcast,...
LeVar Burton’s dream of hosting ‘Jeopardy’ has been a decade in the making, and it finally came true on Monday with Burton kicking off his run as guest host of the long-running quiz show. From “Reading Rainbow” to “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and now “Jeopardy,” the 64-year-old actor has been educating viewers for years — and he really loves books. No, seriously, he’s a book fanatic.
Besides helping millions of kids fall in love with reading, Burton has written several books of his own, including novels and children’s books such as, “The Rhino That Swallowed the Storm.” He’s also narrated books for other authors, hosted public book readings via the “LeVar Burton Reads” podcast,...
- 7/27/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
Pamela Anderson has signed on for an HGTV Canada home renovation show that will see the former Baywatch star renovate her late grandmother’s abandoned home on Vancouver Island.
The Corus Studios series with a working title Pamela Anderson’s Home Reno Project will see Anderson return to her native Canada. Anderson bought the seven-acre home in Ladysmith, British Columbia from her grandmother 25 years ago as a promise to keep the property in the family.
Her renovation dreams will be fulfilled with the help of her new husband, Dan Hayhurst, her mother Carol Anderson and local crew, designers and craftspeople. Anderson’s marriage ...
The Corus Studios series with a working title Pamela Anderson’s Home Reno Project will see Anderson return to her native Canada. Anderson bought the seven-acre home in Ladysmith, British Columbia from her grandmother 25 years ago as a promise to keep the property in the family.
Her renovation dreams will be fulfilled with the help of her new husband, Dan Hayhurst, her mother Carol Anderson and local crew, designers and craftspeople. Anderson’s marriage ...
- 6/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Pamela Anderson has signed on for an HGTV Canada home renovation show that will see the former Baywatch star renovate her late grandmother’s abandoned home on Vancouver Island.
The Corus Studios series with a working title Pamela Anderson’s Home Reno Project will see Anderson return to her native Canada. Anderson bought the seven-acre home in Ladysmith, British Columbia from her grandmother 25 years ago as a promise to keep the property in the family.
Her renovation dreams will be fulfilled with the help of her new husband, Dan Hayhurst, her mother Carol Anderson and local crew, designers and craftspeople. Anderson’s marriage ...
The Corus Studios series with a working title Pamela Anderson’s Home Reno Project will see Anderson return to her native Canada. Anderson bought the seven-acre home in Ladysmith, British Columbia from her grandmother 25 years ago as a promise to keep the property in the family.
Her renovation dreams will be fulfilled with the help of her new husband, Dan Hayhurst, her mother Carol Anderson and local crew, designers and craftspeople. Anderson’s marriage ...
- 6/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A version of this story about “All In: The Fight for Democracy” first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
“All In: The Fight for Democracy” is a wide-ranging documentary that tracks the history of voter suppression in the United States — but the presidential election made the film by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortes seem both timely and prescient. “All In” may span more than a century of efforts to disenfranchise Black voters, but it focuses on Stacey Abrams’ unsuccessful 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia and her subsequent efforts to reform voting inequities, which may have played a role in the state flipping blue and voting for Joe Biden in November.
You knew that Stacey Abrams was a force of nature and that the issue of voter suppression is crucially important. But could you have imagined that she would turn out to be such a rock star in the election,...
“All In: The Fight for Democracy” is a wide-ranging documentary that tracks the history of voter suppression in the United States — but the presidential election made the film by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortes seem both timely and prescient. “All In” may span more than a century of efforts to disenfranchise Black voters, but it focuses on Stacey Abrams’ unsuccessful 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia and her subsequent efforts to reform voting inequities, which may have played a role in the state flipping blue and voting for Joe Biden in November.
You knew that Stacey Abrams was a force of nature and that the issue of voter suppression is crucially important. But could you have imagined that she would turn out to be such a rock star in the election,...
- 12/21/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Here’s a startling statistic for you. In Mississippi, at the height of the Reconstruction era (which lasted until 1877), African-American voter registration stood at 67 percent. A century later, after America had defeated the Nazis and was being held up as a beacon of freedom, African-American voter registration in Mississippi stood at just three percent.
How could that have happened? Many factors, but a key one was domestic racial terrorism. In “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a powerfully timely and absorbing documentary about voter suppression and the ongoing battle against it, the author and professor Carol Anderson tells the story of Maceo Snipes, who fought the fascists during World War II and felt like he’d earned some democracy for himself. He wasn’t intimidated by threats against the lives of African-Americans in his native Georgia; he had just come back from a war. So in 1946, he voted — and was...
How could that have happened? Many factors, but a key one was domestic racial terrorism. In “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a powerfully timely and absorbing documentary about voter suppression and the ongoing battle against it, the author and professor Carol Anderson tells the story of Maceo Snipes, who fought the fascists during World War II and felt like he’d earned some democracy for himself. He wasn’t intimidated by threats against the lives of African-Americans in his native Georgia; he had just come back from a war. So in 1946, he voted — and was...
- 9/3/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
With the 2020 presidential election only a few months away, Stacey Abrams has made it her mission to ensure every vote counts in the first trailer for All In: The Fight for Democracy.
In the film’s nearly three-minute teaser, Abrams — alongside former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman and Emory professor Carol Anderson — connects the dots between the network of legislative barriers that threaten Americans’ right to vote.
With Abrams at its center, the Amazon Original documentary kicks off its look at the insidious issue of voter suppression with Abrams’ own contentious and controversial ...
In the film’s nearly three-minute teaser, Abrams — alongside former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman and Emory professor Carol Anderson — connects the dots between the network of legislative barriers that threaten Americans’ right to vote.
With Abrams at its center, the Amazon Original documentary kicks off its look at the insidious issue of voter suppression with Abrams’ own contentious and controversial ...
- 8/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With the 2020 presidential election only a few months away, Stacey Abrams has made it her mission to ensure every vote counts in the first trailer for All In: The Fight for Democracy.
In the film’s nearly three-minute teaser, Abrams — alongside former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman and Emory professor Carol Anderson — connects the dots between the network of legislative barriers that threaten Americans’ right to vote.
With Abrams at its center, the Amazon Original documentary kicks off its look at the insidious issue of voter suppression with Abrams’ own contentious and controversial ...
In the film’s nearly three-minute teaser, Abrams — alongside former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman and Emory professor Carol Anderson — connects the dots between the network of legislative barriers that threaten Americans’ right to vote.
With Abrams at its center, the Amazon Original documentary kicks off its look at the insidious issue of voter suppression with Abrams’ own contentious and controversial ...
- 8/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Not long after losing its second presidential election to Barack Obama, the Gop, so the story goes, operated on itself. Like a lung-cancer patient declaring that it’s time to quit smoking, the Republican National Committee declared in a 2013 “autopsy” report that “the Republican Party must be committed to building a lasting relationship within the African-American community year-round, based on mutual respect and with a spirit of caring.”
A few months later, Republicans cheered a Supreme Court decision that maimed the Voting Rights Act. Three years after that — in the...
A few months later, Republicans cheered a Supreme Court decision that maimed the Voting Rights Act. Three years after that — in the...
- 10/16/2018
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
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