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Black Filmmakers On Film: Byron Hurt 23mins 34secs
Filmmaker Noland walker interviews other black media makers on past and present projects.
NMI 2007 ~ Juke Joint Live 5mins
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, Jacqueline Olive and Darcie Sanders create an audio pod exploring the history of juke joints in Mississippi
NMI 2007 ~ Sojuke 2mins
A poem by poet Bryonn Bain, accompanying the 2007 NMI project Juke Joint Live.
PRX Talent Quest ~ State of Reunion 50mins
The Public Radio Exchange's Talent Quest offers up this brilliantly produced potential series for national radio distribution.
Voters’ Rights Seized due to Incarceration
Once behind bars, most prisoners lose the right to vote and even after they are released they don’t...
Carol Pineau profiles a burgeoning coffee shop business in Uganda which caters to a robust and evolving middle class.
A Doula Story 56 mins
Loretha Weisinger, a doula (mid-wife) and counselor, helps young teen mothers experience their pregnancies with a little hope and humor.
AfroPoP Trailer 6mins 26secs
A preview of the titles in NBPC's inaugural documentary series on contemporary African life and popular culture,
An Interview With Weaam Williams 6min 48secs
Weaam Williams discusses her film's themes, production process and creative inspirations.
Bamako Sigi Kan 77mins
Documentary filmmaker Manthia Diawara returns to his hometown in Mali, West Africa, in order to explore changes around globalization.
Bi-Racial Hair 4miins 55secs
A young teen girl ponders race and its meaning for her through a poem about her hair.
Black Body Radiation 38min 58secs
Hollablk’s short film, ‘Black Body Radiation’ imagines a future New York dominated by three rival, warring, black religious sects after two space ships mysteriously crash into Manhattan.
Calling Congo 9mins 27secs
Alieu Conteh started his cell-phone outfit in Congo against all odds, and today turns a mesmerizing profit.
Leslie Fields-Cruz discusses Open Call
Leslie Fields-Cruz discusses the open call process via web chat.
NMI 2006 ~ The Story Of Oshun & Ogun 3mins
A 3D animation piece adapted from West African fairy tales.
NMI 2007 Locative Media 2mins 41secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People "Jerriod" 1min 57secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People "Razor Blade" 2mins 43secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Delta Children 4mins 37secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Remixing The Blues "Messiah" 1min 50secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Remixing The Blues "Olu Dara" 1min 44secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Remixing The Blues "Poetry" 2mins 19secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI Africa 2007 ~ Close Strangers 8mins 27secs
Student filmmaker Benjamin Kent capture the life around a former slave post in Accra, Ghana
Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption In America 56mins
An exploration of transracial adoption in America through the stories of three mixed-race familes.
Reparation Blues 5mins
A performance piece on the modern meaning of the displacement caused by slavery, around the controversial issue of reparations.
Taxi (2008) 6mins 31secs
Filmmaker Javan Cornelius explores race in a very modern context - the back seat of a taxi cab.
The Ghosts of John Jay 4mins 30secs
A short documentary exploring from a student perspective the truth about a seemingly notorious high school in Brooklyn, New York.
Dollar Store
NMI 2006 ~ The Other Side 3mins 16secs
Ever wondered what would happen if you kept throwing a tennis ball at a wall?
NMI 2006 ~Black Hole 2 mins
A video-textural exploration of the physics of well-being as it relates to blackness.
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10 Days In Africa 45 mins
In a wonderfully textured narrative style, African American filmmaker Regi Allen makes a sojourn to three West African countries to discover for himself the truth behind the myths that separate black identity in Africa from black identity in the Diaspora.
A Place Of Our Own 60 mins
In this cinematic love song to place and identity, director Stanley Nelson explores the rarely seen world of the black middle class and the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, where African Americans have vacationed for generations.
Free To Dance: Go For What You Know 60 mins
A three-part documentary that chronicles the crucial role African-American choregraphers and dancers played in the development of modern dance as an American art form.
Free To Dance: Steps Of The Gods 60 mins
Katherine Dunham's year in the Caribbean, during the 1930s was both an anthropological field trip and a journey in search of her own roots.
Free To Dance: What Do You Dance 60 mins
"What Do You Dance?" begins the story of the evolution of a uniquely American form of movement with African...
Hip Hop Revolution 48 mins
Using an experimental narrative style, South African filmmaker Weaam Williams has infused her film with a texture and life that breathes with every cut.
I Was Born A Black Woman 56mins
A documentary on Benedita da Silva, a self-made brazilian doemstic worker and mother turned political leader.
Jeremiah Strong 25 mins
A short film about a drifter trying to make amends for past mistakes. While searching for a low-rent apartment, Jeremiah discovers affordable housing isn't the only thing that's difficult to regain in life.
DVD
Volume I ~ Disc 1: Hip Hop Revolution (DVD) 48 mins
Using an experimental narrative style, South African filmmaker Weaam Williams tells the story of hip hop in a South African context.
Volume I ~ Disc 2: Ten Days In Africa (DVD) 45 mins
African American filmmaker Regi Allen journeys to Ghana, Senegal and Cote d' Ivoire in
Volume I ~ Disc 3: Welcome To Nollywood (DVD) 56 mins
Welcome To Nollywood is an engaging behind-the-scenes look at the Nigerian video film industry, Nollywood.
Welcome to Nollywood 56 mins
'Welcome To Nollywood' is a behind-the-scenes look at the fast-paced world of video film making in Nigeria's film industry - Nollywood.
Feeds and URLs
Blog: Clement Nyirenda's Blog World
A computer engineer and professor at the University of Malawi runs this often updated blog roll on the state of technology, and its intersection with governmental policies, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole.
An often poetic blog roll updated by a Ugandan activist, often vocal on queer rights, living and working in Kampala.
A humorous, biting, sometimes controversial black perspective on current affairs.
A satiric online current affairs blog, video & audio podcast on black issues.
Free stuff
Breaking Silences 10mins
A discussion of the alarming rate of domestic violence against women of color on college campuses.
Daallo Airlines 6mins 41secs
Not withstanding a collapsed government, Somalian businessman Mohammed Yassin Olad maintains a successful, and critical, airline business.
From Black Power To Black Monday 11mins 51secs
Produced by Howard University students for NBPC's Eyes On The Prize New Media Competition
Made In Lesotho 5mins 36secs
Jennifer Chen runs a socially conscious production factory in Lesotho that ships to global businesses like Footlocker and The Gap.
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People 2mins 47secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People 2mins 07secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Remixing The Blues 1min 34secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
Pictoons: Animated In Senegal 6min 48secs
A professional animation house in Dakar, Senegal survives and creates amidst a still evolving landscape.
Ruff N' Tumble In Nigeria 9mins 33secs
Decade-long CNN journalist Carol Pineau profiles a successful entrepreneur in Lagos, Nigeria.
Touch Adventure In Zambia 9mins 16secs
Tourism and business meet again, and this time with thrilling results in Zambia, Africa.
Tales of the Diaspora are many and here a global cross section will be selected to give life to contemporary...
Thanks to the advent of technology and the popularity of web destinations which offer easy access to...
"Africa: Open For Business" probes into the world of successful African businesses and exposes myths...
The popularization of black art and culture is a story with many chapters. In these selections an attempt...
The language of media production and distribution is one that has often written its own script. The artist...
The Ghosts of John Jay 4mins 30secs
A short documentary exploring from a student perspective the truth about a seemingly notorious high school in Brooklyn, New York.
Taxi (2008) 6mins 31secs
Filmmaker Javan Cornelius explores race in a very modern context - the back seat of a taxi cab.
Bi-Racial Hair 4miins 55secs
A young teen girl ponders race and its meaning for her through a poem about her hair.
Reparation Blues 5mins
A performance piece on the modern meaning of the displacement caused by slavery, around the controversial issue of reparations.
Leslie Fields-Cruz discusses Open Call
Leslie Fields-Cruz discusses the open call process via web chat.
Black Filmmakers On Film: Byron Hurt 23mins 34secs
Filmmaker Noland walker interviews other black media makers on past and present projects.
NMI 2007 ~ Juke Joint Live 5mins
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, Jacqueline Olive and Darcie Sanders create an audio pod exploring the history of juke joints in Mississippi
Voters’ Rights Seized due to Incarceration
Once behind bars, most prisoners lose the right to vote and even after they are released they don’t...
PRX Talent Quest ~ State of Reunion 50mins
The Public Radio Exchange's Talent Quest offers up this brilliantly produced potential series for national radio distribution.
NMI 2006 ~Black Hole 2 mins
A video-textural exploration of the physics of well-being as it relates to blackness.
NMI 2006 ~ The Other Side 3mins 16secs
Ever wondered what would happen if you kept throwing a tennis ball at a wall?
Daallo Airlines 6mins 41secs
Not withstanding a collapsed government, Somalian businessman Mohammed Yassin Olad maintains a successful, and critical, airline business.
From Black Power To Black Monday 11mins 51secs
Produced by Howard University students for NBPC's Eyes On The Prize New Media Competition
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People 2mins 47secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People 2mins 07secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.
Touch Adventure In Zambia 9mins 16secs
Tourism and business meet again, and this time with thrilling results in Zambia, Africa.
NMI 2007 ~ Remixing The Blues 1min 34secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.