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Ashley Clark: In giving top billing to Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the film Belle makes a real contribution to raising awareness of the mixed-race experience
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Next For Amma Asante? 1940s Romantic Drama Featuring Mixed-Race German Girl & SS Officer
Next For Amma Asante? 1940s Romantic Drama Featuring Mixed-Race German Girl & SS Officer
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Belle: Toronto Review
TORONTO – Hoping to use some Jane Austen-style courtship anxiety to lend drama to an episode in 18th century English history that is novel enough on its own, Amma Asante’s Belle centers on Dido Elizabeth Belle, the mixed-race child who was…
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Mississippi Masala Movie Review (1992) | Roger Ebert
The director Mira Nair made an unexpected discovery a few years ago: A lot of the independent motels in the Deep South are owned and operated by Asian Indians.
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‘Fruitvale Station’ Cracks the Top Ten in Weekend Box Office Numbers – COLORLINES
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The film opened in theaters nationwide over the weekend.
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HAFU: THE MIXED-RACE EXPERIENCE IN JAPAN (87mins)
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With its plethora of cultural meanings, both positive and negative, Hafu is a term used to describe a Japanese of mixed heritage. Detailing the nuances of this hybridity, directors Megumi NISHIKURA and Lara Perez TAKAGI, both Hafu themselves, tell a compelling story of the voices and visibility of the Hafu identity with five stories of Hafu Japanese as they connect to their other roots in Australia, Korea, Venezuela, Mexico and Ghana to give us an absorbing look at ways of being Japanese.
Erika Nishizato and Ken Tanabe, filmmakers involved in the production of HAFU, will be in attendance for Q&A.
Community Village‘s insight:
Event happens at Asian American International Film Festival New York City (07/24-08/03)
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July Flashback: Tatyana Ali (Afro-Panamanian/Indo-Trinidadian) [American]
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Known as: TV & Film Actress and R&B singer
TV: Ashley Banks in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, “The Young and the Restless”, “Love That Girl!”, “Second Generation Wayans”, “Buppies”, “Sesame Street”
Movies: “Kiss the Girls”, “Jawbreaker”, “National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze”, “The Brothers”, “Brother”, “Fakin’ Da Funk”
Music Videos/Live/Audio: Daydreamin, Boy You Knock Me Out (with Will Smith), Everytime
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June Flashback: Karyn Parsons (French-Canadian/Afro-Trinidadian) [American]
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Known as: TV & Film Actress and Model
TV: Hilary Banks in “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, “The Job”, “Lush Life”, “Gulliver’s Travels”
Movies: “Major Payne”, “The Ladies Man”, “Mixing Nia”, “13 Moons”
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Michael DeLorenzo (Puerto Rican/Italian) [American]
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Known as: Actor, Director & Musician (Performed in Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” & “Thriller” music videos)
TV: “New York Undercover”, “Head of the Class”, “Resurrection Blvd.”, “Fame”
Movies: “A Few Good Men”, “Alive”, “High Hopes”, “Fame”, “My Family”, “Fatal Beauty”, “Gun Shy”
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Flashback Thursday: Rashida Jones (African-American/Jewish) [American]
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Known as: Film & TV Actress (Sister of Kidada Jones; Daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton)
TV: “Parks and Recreation”, “The Office”, “Boston Public”, “Wanted”, “Unhitched”, “Chappelle’s Show”, “NY-LON”
Movies: “The Social Network”, “I Love You, Man”, “Celeste & Jesse Forever”, “Our Idiot Brother”
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