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Anapela Polataivao in Night Shift (2012, dir. Zia Mandviwalla)
Salote, an airport cleaner starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job and gleans her survival from what others leave behind. No one would usually spare her a second glance. [x]
Diaspora Drama is a zine celebrating creative and offbeat people of colour in cyber space. The theme for issue 02 is DIAL-UP: nostalgia, childhood and early internet memories.
The issue includes: interviews of filmmaker Damani Baker, black women punk band Big Joanie, commissioned digital art by Zarina Muhammad, Sara Foryame, Mohini Hewa, Mexican American Publication, writing by Kevin Le and many others. Cover art by Ayqa Khan.
Broadcasting Radio Venceremos, the ‘underground’ radio network of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front during the Salvadoran Civil War.
A good night to be happy ^^
Who gave this son of a bitch a green card?
Diaspora Drama is a new zine celebrating creative, offbeat and cool people of colour in cyber space. Read the first online here
Our very first issue is 86 pages packed with amazing talents such as images and interview with M.I.A.’s personal photographer and founder of the Black Balloon Archive, Liz Johnson-Artur, an interview with future Kurdish superstar Cany Dilan, an editorial by Shabab Int clothing’s Mohammed Hasoon, art by Sanaa Hamid, Rayanne Bushell, Daku and a lot more including poetry and essays exploring identity and culture.
We also got a kick ass Punx of Colour playlist curated by Rita Mikhael, who runs the DIY cassette/zine/art label Summer Isle. Listen here (8tracks)
Support the zine by checking back on our bigcartel page to buy a limited physical copy
~HAVE FAITH IN CYBER SPACE~
The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave.
DIASPORA DRAMA is a new zine dedicated to creative offbeat and cool people of colour. Send in your creative work from writing to drawings to selfies to anything you’re proud of for the launch issue.
Deadline is midnight 2nd Feb
Image by Isaac Kariuki for the launch issue
Diaspora Drama is a zine celebrating creative poc immigrants.
We’re looking for cool, weird, offbeat creatives to submit their writing, art, selfies, photography etc for the launch issue!
Submit through:
Email: diasporadrama@gmail.com
Please read the FAQ before submitting
~~ have faith in cyber space ~~
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Directed by Isao Takahata
Yi Yi: A One and a Two, Dir. Edward Yang | “You can’t see it yourself, so I’m helping you”
TIMBUKTU is Mauritania’s first official selection for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and it’s now a Nominee! Congratulations to filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako and lovers of West African cinema!
We’re proud to distribute the film in the US. Look for it in theatres starting January 28: http://cohenmedia.net/films/timbuktu
Also, Timbuktu marks Cohen Media Group’s second Oscar nomination for a Best Foreign Language Film. Our first was 2010’s OUTSIDE THE LAW: http://cohenmedia.net/films/outside-the-law.
It's truly unfortunate that once again, with another year of remarkable international cinema, the Academy seeks to celebrate the same white european countries and Argentina, the only south american country that they ever recognise and there just leaves Mauritania the lone 'outsider' to help defend the nominations list as not being racist and xenophobic.
For my pick of the best international films of 2014 not nominated that you should definitely check out, we suggest:
A Better Life follows the story of single father and undocumented immigrant Carlos Galindo trying to provide for his son Luis as a gardener. Carlos finally gets independence by means of acquiring his own truck and tools to work with. Luis is skirting the edge of joining up with a local gang.The two go on a journey together when Carlos’ truck is stolen and the two begin to bond.
Fact: Father G and Hector Verdugo of Homeboy Industries helped director Chris Weitz with locations and creating an authentic script.
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Directed by Isao Takahata
Left: Richard Aoki - Japanese-American member of the Oakland Chapter Black Panther Party & AAPA (Asian American Political Alliance) - Free Huey Newton protest - Oakland, 1968
Right: Ara Kim - Korean-American member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles & SOOBAK (Socal Outrageous Organized Bomb-Ass Koreans) - Ferguson/Mike Brown Protest- Los Angeles, 2014
Spike Lee on the critical reaction to Do the Right Thing (via kmmbig)
Filmmaker Steve McQueen returns to his fine art beginnings with an exhibition and his first new film since “12 Years A Slave”.
Made using reworked Super-8 footage of a young boy in Grenada shot by Dutch cinematographer Robby Miller. The previously unused footage was made during a trip McQueen made to Grenada in 2001. There, McQueen came across the young man we briefly come to know in the film Ashes, the name the of film’s protagonist.
Recognizing a quality in him that translated beautifully onto the screen, McQueen had wanted to cast Ashes in the project he was working on there but was unable to do so. Instead, he asked Miller to take footage of the young man.When McQueen returned to the island in 2009, he learned of Ashes’ murder. Shaken by this, McQueen’s latest short film and exhibition are an intimate ode to the effervescence of youth and the tragic death of a young man that embodied this vivacity so well.
You haven't updated in a little while, everything ok?
I'm still alive. I've been really busy with uni and haven't had time to sit down and watch films and recommend them. I'll be posting articles and stuff about int. cinema soon though. Take care
