By Charles Stephens
During the 1992 presidential primaries, Pat Buchanan, seeking the Republican Party's nomination, used an unauthorized clip from Tongues Untied to blast the National Endowment for the Arts and attack George H. W. Bush.
Archive for category: race
Cosmo: Why It’s Important to Recognize That ‘Moonlight’ Was Robbed Of Its Moment
By Brittney Cooper
The Academy Awards did the best possible thing in the worst possible way last night, when it conferred Moonlight the Oscar for Best Picture.
NAMAC Joins the Conversation at ArtChangeUS REMAP: Detroit
NAMAC Executive Director Wendy Levy participated in REMAP: Detroit and was inspired by the conviction of the communities in the rooms, the fearless examination of the challenges, and the celebration of the arts, in the broadest view, as an engine for transformation.
#DocsSoWhite: A Personal Reflection
By Renee Tajima-Peña
I once considered documentary to be a fallback for filmmakers of color who were shut out of the fiction universe. I was wrong. As it turns out, we may be more under-represented in nonfiction filmmaking. Sundance estimates the proportion of documentary directors of color screening at the festival to be around 15 percent. The Directors Guild of America estimates 82 percent of its narrative members are white males; it doesn't even bother to calculate documentarians.
July 2016 eBulletin—your latest media arts + culture news
Facilitating collaboration, strategic growth, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field
The Future of Storytelling: NAMAC Video Roundtables
A Video Roundtable is a group conversation (like a Google Hangout with better production values!) hosted by NAMAC on the zoom.us platform. They can be curated and produced on any relevant topic, any issue, any film, and hosted by any NAMAC member. Send us an email at creative@namac.org and let us know what's next!
An Open Letter to New Zealand Immigration Minister Hon Michael Woodhouse
By Simon Kilmurry
On behalf of the International Documentary Association, I am writing to express our deep alarm and concern at the recent rejection of a visa application for documentary filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami by Immigration New Zealand.
March 2016 eBulletin—your latest media arts + culture news
Facilitating collaboration, strategic growth, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field
Why We Need the Academy Awards
By Peter Nicks
In 1988, Eddie Murphy stood on the stage at the Academy Awards to present the award for best picture. He began his introduction as one would expect—cracking a couple of jokes—but quickly changed course to scold Hollywood for its historical snubbing of African American actors.