Acting
Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts will endure the fight of their lives.
Good Poison, an anthology series by Eric Coker, ventures into the depths of black male sexuality, unraveling the nuances of sexual identity and striving to spark thoughtful conversations and offer new perspectives on this captivating theme.
Brothers Jacob and Ayden are racing to climb a rock when Ayden falls from the top and dies. Jacob is accused of having killed his brother, and his mother must fight to prove his innocence.
Angie, the wife of a charismatic pastor who extols family values yet maintains an icy demeanor toward his own, seeks solace from her marital woes in the arms of her recently hired pool boy, a fling which quickly upsets the idyllic facade of the community, reigniting old jealousies, and leaving no one's secrets safe.
When Jessica is falsely charged with the murder of her best friend's husband, she escapes from jail and goes on the run with her husband Matt in an attempt to clear her name but untangles a deadly web of lust and deceit that leads directly to those she trusts the most.
Birth of a Nation reinterprets D.W. Griffith's notorious 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, a technically groundbreaking but deeply racist work that glorifies white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan. Stan Douglas focuses on one infamous narrative strand from Griffith’s film involving the character Gus—a Black man played in blackface—who is falsely depicted as a threat to a white woman, Flora. In the original, this leads to her death and Gus's lynching by the Klan.
Often discussed as an urban legend or a failed architectural project, Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island redresses the erasure around Riley’s completed amusement park for the Black Residents in Harlem and the Bronx in 1924 on Hart Island. Working across archives, contemporary footage of Hart Island, and speculative interviews with key Black cultural producers of the time, including Riley, the film reimagines what we know about Negro Coney Island and its legacy with New York City’s still active potter’s field, Hart Island.
An island you’ll love for life!
