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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: How Naomi Wadler Disrupted the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
Anyone who thinks children should be seen and not heard has clearly never heard of Naomi Wadler. The 11-year-old blew millions of minds when she appeared onstage at last month’s March for Our Lives “to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don’t…
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Blowin’ Up Proves There’s Life After ‘the Life’
“It’s called blowin’ up when you leave your pimp … so I blew up,” Kandie says, standing tall and brown in the New York sunshine. Her bangs blow in the breeze, and a pretty but awkward smile seems to reflexively creep around the edges of her mouth as she matter-of-factly describes how she got into…
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Blackness Is the Muse of Mr. Soul!
It was the blackest, most brilliant and beautiful evening I’ve spent in a long time—which is a pretty high bar, since I work, live and play with brilliant, beautiful black people every day. But Sunday night’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Mr. Soul!, the highly anticipated documentary on storied black variety show Soul!, was both…
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Thandie Newton Returns to the Wild, Wild Westworld
Westworld returns to HBO tonight, and having previewed the premiere, I gotta tell you: Brace yourselves, because this season is destined to be even more of a doozy than the last (calm down; that’s the extent of my spoilers for season 2). I say this in slight bewilderment, because despite faithfully watching season 1 (twice),…
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The Root’s Guide to the 10 Blackest Experiences of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival
If Beyoncé can bring Wakanda to Coachella, we’re going to do the same for Tribeca, the annual film festival that reps the grit and greatness of New York City. As with last year, we here at The Root are here to give it to you, racks on racks of that beautiful black (except, perhaps, No. 5).…
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Netflix Buys Rights to The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Netflix has picked up the worldwide rights for David France’s documentary, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. The streaming service announced Friday that it had the rights to the documentary about the LGBTQ icon, which tells the story of her life and untimely…
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Watch: Black Women Dive Headfirst Into the Future With Virtual Reality Project
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism is an art installation and virtual reality experience recently featured at the Tribeca Film Festival. The project, which seeks to put women of color in the virtual reality space, was created by Hyphen-Labs, a collective of women from diverse backgrounds. “We worked with character modelers, animators and developers to create an empowering experience…
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Top 10 Blackest Experiences From the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival, the badass downtown sister to golden girl Sundance, is back on these screens April 19-28. Like the New York neighborhood it’s named for, every year TFF becomes richer; fortunately, as with Hollywood (though not the nabe so much), black images, people and stories abound. There is much at the festival that…