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The Urbanworld® Film Festival Announces 2022 Award Winners

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NEW YORK, NY (October 31, 2022) – The 26th Annual Urbanworld® Film Festival (www.urbanworld.org), along with presenting partner Visa, prestige partners Warner Bros. Discovery and Ally Financial, and founding partner HBO, announced the 2022 award winners for the best narrative feature, documentary feature, documentary short, young creator, narrative short (U.S. and World Cinema), animated short, …

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Denzel Washington in a black and white still from the film, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Oscars 2022 Nominees: Latinx Noms Come in Strong

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Tuesday morning Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan announced nominations for the 94th annual Academy Awards, and despite a moderately awkward year due to the pandemic’s effects in theater viewings (and thus low box office numbers), a few films swept several nominations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avbXw0kOlQc Leading with 12 nominations, Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog” was followed …

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Who We Are

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Before asking Who We Are… let’s ask, ‘who is he?’ “He” being – Jeffery Robinson, and creator of the documentary Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism, along with Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler. The recently retired ACLU deputy legal director, presents America’s history of anti-Black racism, much of which has come to be misunderstood. …

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