SXSW 2015: Honeytrap Writer/Director Rebecca Johnson
In America we call them projects, and they’ve been the locus of many crucial, incredible films, quiet a few from Spike Lee, including Do the Right Thing and Clockers. They’re called favelas in Brazil, the setting for the Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s explosive City of God, while in Britain they’re called estates. These are places where large groups of lower income families and individuals, often minorities, are grouped together in sprwling,
Celebrating Black History Month
Black History Month comes to a close this Saturday, and just a week later the 50th anniversary of the first march from Selma to Montgomery, an event that shocked the nation and came to be known as "Bloody Sunday," will be commemorated in Selma on March 7 (a moment so brilliantly conveyed in Ava DuVernay's Selma, one of the films on our list). From World War II to the Civil Rights movement, we've looked at eight moments,
