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Many Americans, especially younger ones, may not know who Arthur Ashe was and how significant his achievements were in and out of the realm of sports. For starters, Ashe was the first Black tennis player selected to the US Davis Cup team and the only Black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open.

Once upon a time … Americans sipped coffee and ate pie around communal tables at the Horn & Hardart’s iconic Automat, where they could share their struggles and dreams with strangers they had never met before (and would never see again). Lifetimes ago, these largely working-class palaces nourished a sense of unity and community that bridged diverse social classes, languages, genders and races in the increasingly rising urban melting pots of the East Coast.

Jacqueline Lentzou’s Moon, 66 Questions won the New Visions Award and the Golden Puffin at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF), which closed its 18th edition on October 10th. The Golden Puffin is the main prize at RIFF, given to the “Discovery of the Year”, as selected by an international jury.

Biodun Stephen has a really big female fan base. But the Nigerian filmmaker does not intentionally tell stories to cater to a female audience.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association congratulates Russian journalist and editor of Novaja Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov and Filipino founder of the investigative journalism website Rappler, Maria Ressa, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Both have been unsilenced voices for truth in the face of authoritarianism, currently on the rise in many parts of the world.

The NAACP and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)announced a five-year collaborative partnership, joining forces in an effort to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion across the global entertainment industry.   Each year the HFPA and the NAACP Hollywood Bureau will collaborate on, fund, and support a series of trailblazing initiatives, with the overall goals of: Ensuring visibility of projects from artists of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds; Increasing diverse representation in the industry; Building pathways to inclusion for young artists and journalists of color.

Velvet Jesus is a collaboration between African American filmmakers Anthony Bawn and Spencer Michael Collins IV, who created the company VIM Media LLC to create content for their community and tell stories that are not often heard outside it. It turned out that it is not an easy task creating gay African American content, and the team set out to make a difference and create a platform for their community to tell their stories too.

Actor and producer Jimmy Jean-Louis grew up in Haiti and France. He has lived in Spain, Italy, South Africa, and England before moving to the United States.

In 1956, when the French diving pioneer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997) made his documentary, The Silent World, in 1956, it was a novelty in many ways that he himself could not have anticipated. The feature was co-directed by Cousteau, who was then 46, and a young director, Louis Malle, 24, who would go on to become a major voice in French and world cinema (Lacombe Lucien, Atlantic City, Au Revoir les Enfants) in the next three decades.

Venom and James Bond went on a rampage at the box office and set records domestically and internationally, respectively. Venom: Let There Be Carnage, actor Andy Serkis’ third directing feature, surpassed all expectations and raked in a whopping $90.