Muhammad Bilal always wanted to be a filmmaker, and in his most recent film, The Blue Cave, Ali, a Black teenager from the southside of Chicago, is driven by that same fuel. Dreams are worth fighting for, and for Ali, a character based on Muhammad’s own story, that fight consists of challenge after challenge, met with gritty determination.
From Love Jones to Moonlight, these are some of the Black romance films to watch this Valentine’s Day with your significant other.
After the lockdowns were eased in Nigeria, moviemakers rushed to restart productions stalled by the pandemic. Filmmaking in Africa’s largest movie industry continues even in a pandemic, especially for so-called guerrilla moviemakers
African movies are changing the narrative of the African story. For the first time, other parts of the world are seeing Africans tell their own stories as their films are shown globally. They are having an impact on the continent and abroad.
