Back in 2016, Kino Lorber assembled a revelatory survey of movies made by black Americans from the silent era through the first decades of talkies. Titled “Pioneers of African-American Cinema ...

SYNOPSIS: The Oscar Micheaux Project (working title) is an original jazz musical inspired by the life and work of Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951) as well as other historic events. In 1915, Black ...

Any modern independent filmmaker who began his or her career maxing out 10 credit cards will find their efforts and tribulations put starkly into context by Patrick McGilligan’s exhaustive biography ...