COMING DEC 7TH: The 2024 Afrofuturist Vampire Dance Party!

We’re BACK!! Thanks to your continued support, since we began crowdfunding since 2020. Back then, you supported our journey of turning a 2013 stage play, “Willow,” into a short film, “Willow: State of Emergency.” After our premiere screening at the Nuoyican Poets Cafe, winning Best Short Film of the Chicago Black FIlm Fest, and winning the WAVE Farm MAAF grant - we premiered the FIRST FOUR EPISODES of “Willow: House of Griots" in front of a live audience at Here Performing Arts Center.

Limerence

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"Good Times" | Music Video

For “Good Times,” I wanted to use a quick dip into my personal life, as a framework to examine to complexities of Black Existence. I’d wager one of the biggest commonalities we have in the Black Experience is reconciling what the world sees/expects of us, and who we really are. We’re haunted by the racialized toxic positivity alluded to in the lyrics “Shut Me Up for the Good Times,” the anti-Black intentions behind mass incarceration in “Lock Me Up for the Good Times,” and cognitive dissonance from a litany of Double Consciousness byproducts.

Happy Juneteenth!

Today marks three years since the U.S. first celebrated Juneteenth National Independence Day as a federal holiday. President Biden signed it into law, on June 17th, 2021, nearly 200 years after the first push to gain national recognition.

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The Truth About Prison Televisual Complex

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Coming MAY 28th: #AIRS Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion

#AIRS Documentary Screening & Panel: Empowering Change
Crown Heights Brooklyn Public Library
560 New York Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11225.
Tuesday, May 28th | 5:30-7 PM

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Kandake Dance Theater's "1,001 Nights on Death Row"

Congrats to the Kandake Dance Theater for their showing of their rock opera "1,001 Nights on Death Row" at the Fresh Fruit Festival! We got the opportunity to film their performance on closing night.

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Getting Tattoos w/ French Cuban Duo Ibeyi

Under the needle at a Brooklyn tattoo parlor, French-Cuban duo Ibeyi tells the story behind each song on their new album "Ash.

Nelson Mandela, and South Africa's Solidarity w/ Palestine

Following his release from prison in February 1990, South Africa's 1st President Nelson Mandela famously embraced Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman, Yasser Arafat in Lusaka, Zambia. He and his political party, the African National Congress (ANC), had long supported Palestinian statehood; comparing the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank to South Africa's Apartheid, which barred Black South Africans from voting, owning land, and living outside of ethnically segregated areas called "Homelands."

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06.02.19 Close Riker's Campaign

We’re proud of the opportunity to produce, film, and witness Just Leadership USA’s Close Rikers Campaign in action in 2016. They rallied outside the Borough Halls of Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx to pressure Mayor Bill DeBlasio and other key elected officials, to keep the commitment to close down Rikers.

Fighting Fire with Water | Black Thoughts

“We don't think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.” - Fred Hampton

Remembering the 2017 "Swipe it Forward" Campaign

In 2017, Why Accountability and other New York activist groups joined together to provide free swipes to commuters in the Bronx, East New York, East Harlem, and other places targeted for fare-beating arrests. Demonstrators repeated to commuters and observing police officers that “Poverty is not a crime”, and that it is entirely legal to offer free swipes to fellow commuters.

Remembering The 2023 AVD Party

Months of work for one end-of-year extravaganza: The Afrofuturist Vampire Dance Party! Last December we celebrated the culmination of 4 years of indie film production to create “Willow: State of Emergency.” It’s from the world of Paul A. Notice II's 2013 play, “Willow.” Watch it now on Amazon Prime!

Shaw Boyz: "They always mention Tony Hawk..."

Question: Who do you think of when you think of skateboarding?

Shaw Boy: “They always mention Tony Hawk, it's not only Tony Hawk. It's the people right behind me, it’s the man over there… It’s multicultural it's not just for one person. It's for everybody.”

NEW RELEASE: Mike Bankhead's "Plantation" Music Video | dir. by Paul A. Notice II

We had the privilege to produce the music video for Mike Bankhead’s latest Black Alternative ballad “Plantation.” Lyrics like the quote above conjure the phantoms of slavery in America, and its pervasiveness in the modern Western world.

"Ode to a Husk and Healing" published in Zulu Padilla's "Everything is Migrating" zine

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“Our Narrative” - Hamas' First Public Report on the Oct 7th Attacks

In a 16-page report titled “Our Narrative” and published on Sunday, The Palestinian group Hamas, which governs Gaza, said it wanted to “clarify” the background and dynamics of the surprise attack it calls Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

The report addressed post-war Gaza and the other issues that led to the Oct 7th attack, and the delayed retaliation to the thousands of Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli government over the past 24 years.

Read the full report in the link in our bio.

For the full report, follow the link here.

The Reel Works 2023 Alumni Holiday Party

Closing out the 2023 Holidays, ReelWorks hosted a gathering of Alumni from each of their training courses over the years. What’s remarkable was the amount of participants from BIPOC, Queer, Femme communities. While the TV and Film industry only consists of 28.8% of BIPOC professionals, 26% women - more than 80% of the alumni participants were from these communities.

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"Homecoming" coming soon in 2028!

I started homecoming back in 2015, and had been slowly but surely whittling away at hundreds of hours of footage - then a robbery took away some of my most prized memories: the 100th birthday of my great-granddad, Lilbert "Buddy" Hollins. It would be the last time I would see him alive. It was hard enough to work on a documentary that unabashedly looked at my depression, survivor's guilt, and PTSD while visiting the home, but the loss had become too great.

From our Co-Op Capitalism Program: BLACK THOUGHTS

Stay moisturized this winter season, and support a great cause! Get a tin of "Black Thoughts" from our Co-Op Capitalism program. Find out more below!

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