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FILM SENSE: Afro-futurism & Ethno-Gothic

Release Date: 04/28/2019

Film Sense

Actor, Producer, Creature Performer DOUG TAIT ('Hellboy', 'Legacies', 'Attack of the Unknown') stops by the 'Film Sense' Zoom room for our first interview since we met on the Wyrd documentary 'Men In Suits'.

FILM SENSE: Heather Buckley and Jack Bennett

Film Sense

Producer HEATHER BUCKLEY ("The Ranger", "We Are Still Here" and "Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson") joins filmmaker JACK BENNETT ("Grandpa Metal", "New Music Sucks") and host Frank H. Woodward to discuss the inclusive genre studio she recently co-founded, BLACK MANSION.

FILM SENSE: Misty Rosas Has Spoken

Film Sense

A lot has changed for actor Misty Rosas since she portrayed two instantly iconic characters on "The Mandalorian"... Kuiil, the wise Ugnaught, and the endearing Frog Lady. You could even say, "The Force is strong with this one." And you'd be right.

FILM SENSE: The Puppet Cinema of Kevin McTurk

Film Sense

The puppet ghost stories of KEVIN McTURK (The Haunted Swordsman, The Mill At Calder's End, The Narrative of Victor Karloch) are a fine blend of many cinematic influences including George Méliès, Jim Henson, Japanese folk tales, Hammer Horror and so much more.

FILM SENSE: Bonus Andrew Kasch

Film Sense

I continue to sift through the FILM SENSE bins in search of bonus interviews like this one from my discussion with director Andrew Kasch about the challenge of going to the movies and discovering new voices in a shrinking, streaming world.

FILM SENSE: Bonus David J. Schow

Film Sense

As we call "wrap" on 2020, I sift through the FILM SENSE bins in search of bonus interviews like this one from my discussion with author/screenwriter David J. Schow.

CLEAN - Q&A For A Short Film

Film Sense

Here's a Bonus Feature to watch after seeing CLEAN, a short film by Frank H. Woodward, now streaming on the official Screamfest YouTube Channel.

MICHAEL HAYES • Hollywood: The Reboot

Film Sense

In Part Four of this "Film Sense" limited series... we take a closer look at the business side of filmmaking with a focus on independent productions.

IZZY LEE • Hollywood: The Reboot

Film Sense

With Election Day upon us... It's time to get political with filmmaker Izzy Lee.

KEVIN VANHOOK • Hollywood: The Reboot

Film Sense

"If you were to reboot Hollywood, what are some of the changes you would make?"

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Black Panther... Get Out... Candyman... all have become classics of speculative fiction. They are also shining examples of AFRO-FUTURISM and the ETHNO-GOTHIC.

With the success of these films, it may seem that a new sub-genre of fantastic cinema is being born. But according to PROFESSOR JOHN JENNINGS, horror and science fiction have been depicting the black experience for quite sometime. What we have instead is a Renaissance.

So join Prof. Jennings and myself as we explore this new birth.

Bio:

JOHN JENNINGS is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings’ current projects include the horror anthology Box of Bones, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy), and the Eisner-winning, Bram Stoker Award-winning, New York Times best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred. Jennings is also founder and curator of the ABRAMS Megascope line of graphic novels.

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Suggested Reading from Prof. Jennings:

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Illustatetd by John Jennings. Adapted by Damian Duffy

Black Kirby by John Jennings & Stacey Robinson

Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent - Edited by Reynaldo Anderson & John Jennings

Marvel Essential Luke Cage Power Man Vol. 2 by Various

The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher

Flyboy 2 by Greg Tate

Creating Black Americans by Nell Irvin Painter

Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor by Elizabeth Young

Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Framing Blackness: The African American Image In Film by Ed Guerrero

CORRECTION: The name of the executive producer of LITTLE is Marsai Martin (Blackish).

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