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While many of the biggest horror films of the past century were made in America, the horror film genre was not actually born in the United States. French director Georges Melies' 1896 short The House of the Devil is often credited as the first ‘horror’ movie.

“Stories about us, that are written and directed by us, are, of course, going to hold a deeper meaning. And by us, I mean ethnic filmmakers,” said Dionysio Basco about The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, a film which he and his siblings – Dante, Derek, and Darion – and their parents, grandparents, children, aunts, uncles, and cousins made and acted in.

Even though the Golden Globes just celebrated its 79th anniversary, for Best Original Song, the distinguished list of achievements only dates back to 1962. The title song from Town Without Pity scored the initial win; but it would take another three years before the category became permanent.

La afroamericana es una de las herencias más importantes y a la vez una de las culturas que más ha sufrido en los Estados Unidos de América. Hollywood –unas veces mejor que otras-, ha reflejado el drama, pero también ha reivindicado la herencia de esta talentosa raza, a través del cine.

What do Joseph Lopir, a student of FilmAid´s Media Training Program at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya; Abdiqathar Keinan, of the Media Training Program at Dadaab Refugee Camp; and Lismari Machado, a member of the Communication Network that serves the Wayuu Community, the largest indigenous community in Colombia, have in common? They share the passion and willingness to tell stories that reflect the reality of their own communities. FilmAid is a non-profit organization founded by film producer Caroline Baron in 2001 with the mission of empowering refugee communities to strengthen their ability to access high-quality, lifesaving information, as well as advocate for themselves through filmmaking and visual storytelling.

Hallelujah, a pre-Code feature, is considered to be the first all-Black musical. Remarkably, the innovative director King Vidor was able to make a rather "personal" project within the studio system, despite initially strong discouragement of MGM’s conservative heads.

Audiences around the world just can’t get enough of South Korean TV dramas, and you can thank the breakout Korean megahit Squid Game for that. The Netflix hit series became a global media sensation in 2021 earning three Golden Globe nominations - including one historic win for the 77-year-old veteran actor Oh Young-soo, Korea’s first Golden Globe winner.

Monica Vitti, immeasurable talent of Italian cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni's muse, and herself a writer and director, has died. She was 90 years old: in her last years, because of a degenerative disease, she had never appeared in public.

Malina Moye was only in third grade when she picked the name of her future record label, Walking Commodities Entertainment or WCE Records. It became a real label in 2010 and Moye is now the CEO and founder.

It’s been a year since entertainment executive Kyle Bowser took over the reins of the NAACP’s Hollywood Bureau as Senior Vice President. And in that year, so much has happened.