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Tag: Octavia Spencer

Arts & Entertainment

PREVIEW: Berkshire International Film Festival 2018 — 80 films from 27 countries in 4 days

I am still interested in the documentaries from war-torn areas of our globe and dramas of family strife, but there also needs to be some relief — some comic relief — and I think this festival successfully provides both.

by Ronni Monsky
Posted on May 29, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

The saga of Elizabeth ‘Mumbet’ Freeman, first slave to win her freedom in Massachusetts, being filmed in Sheffield

“Mumbet” is the inspirational true story of a woman who could neither read nor write, but whose simple eloquence poses the question of America’s purpose better than anyone. Mumbet was the first enslaved African-American to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on April 14, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

LEONARD QUART: Oscar Night 2018

“I think that the greatest thing that our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper.”
— Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro

by Leonard Quart
Posted on March 6, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

ON FILM: ‘Hidden Figures,’ the triumph of black women in male-dominated NASA

A Hollywood homage to three gifted African-American women who fulfilled their potential at a time when racism still ruled.

by Leonard Quart
Posted on February 11, 2017
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