AUTHOR Beverly Andrews
Tribeca 2022
Tribeca, with film star Robert De Niro as its co-founder and its focus on urban, grittier stories, is very much the face of America’s urban East Coast.
In the Black Fantastic
Hayward Gallery: in the Black Fantastic | How as an artist do you make sense of a world in which at times you are made to feel invisible? That has been an ongoing challenge for black artists throughout the African diaspora.
London’s Indian Film Festival
The festival included acclaimed documentaries, shorts, features as well as screenings of some of the country’s recent classics. This year’s festival also included a live interview with the legendary Aparna Sen.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma became the home for the largest number of African American frontier towns post the country’s Civil War. Those towns included Tulsa, which saw the expansion of one of the country’s most prosperous African American communities post World War I.
Odyssey: a Chinese Cinema Season
The second edition of the Odyssey film festival in London is a real treat. It is festival devoted exclusively to screening Chinese films. Here is Beverly Andrews’s selection.
The Age of Rage
“This house thrives only in anger that leaves no time for repentance. Those who have been banished for their crimes return to commit a new one.”
FLARE 2022
It is heart-warming to see the BFI Flare film festival return for its first in person festival in two years. A beautiful celebration of the lives of queer people from around the world.
Austin’s SXSW festival 2022
The festival which shows the gentler and more progressive side of Texas returns. SXSW, after a two-year hiatus, mounts its first in-person event and is bigger and better than ever before.