Film’s Multi-Platform Engagement Campaign, HBCU Rising, Features a Crowdsourced HBCU Digital Yearbook Archive and 10-City HBCU Tour New York, NY– Stanley Nelson, the preeminent storyteller of the African-American experience and Firelight Films, the award-winning production company committed to making films about pivotal events, movements, and people in American history, today unveiled a new full-length trailer […]
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Urban Movie Channel Announces New Fall Comedy Series MINIMUM WAGE
Following its new hit comedy summer series, UMC – Urban Movie Channel is excited to announce the premiere of MINIMUM WAGE, an amusing new six-episode workplace comedy that centers around a struggling Koreatown burger joint forced to make radical changes to keep its doors open. Minimum Wage is from the original web series “Foodies,” winner […]
Flint: Official Trailer #2
“Flint” is the gripping retelling of a crisis that shook a nation and shines a light on the whistleblowers who exposed the biggest environmental scandal of our generation. LeeAnne Walters (Betsy Brandt, “Breaking Bad”), Melissa Mays (Marin Ireland, “Sneaky Pete”) and Nayyirah Shariff (Jill Scott, “Steel Magnolias”) join forces after discovering that the drinking water […]
Flint: Official Trailer #1
“Flint” is the gripping retelling of a crisis that shook a nation and shines a light on the whistleblowers who exposed the biggest environmental scandal of our generation. LeeAnne Walters (Betsy Brandt, “Breaking Bad”), Melissa Mays (Marin Ireland, “Sneaky Pete”) and Nayyirah Shariff (Jill Scott, “Steel Magnolias”) join forces after discovering that the drinking water […]
Filmmaker Foster Corder to Direct The Celestial Baseball Association’s Faith-Based Book to Film Release “Old Timers Day”
Los Angeles, CA – What if God and the Devil were to draft their own major league baseball teams with the greatest players, living and dead, and the fate of mankind was contingent on whose team won? The Celestial Baseball Association (CBA) plans to take that storyline and ‘knock it out the park’ with the […]
Urban Superhero “DangerMan” Releases First Real Life Black Superhero Halloween Costume
Los Angeles, CA – Halloween night just got safer! America’s Real Life Urban Super Hero, DangerMan, will roam the streets trick-or-treating with the likes of Superman, Batman and Spider-Man as the new DangerMan Super Suit is now available for kids! Actor and mentor Roger I. Tinsley, the founder of the DangerMan Urban Superhero brand and […]
‘Two Shades of Vice’ Captures Harsh Realities of Persistent Racism and Violence in America
Kansas City, MO – Two Shades of Vice: Based on the true story of an interracial couple’s life together in crime, details the hardened criminal life of Dewey’s black mother and white father during the turbulent sixties. Based upon information from police reports, criminal rap sheets, and eyewitness accounts, many chapters explain how they lived dangerously […]
“A Question of Faith” In Theaters Now
Los Angeles, CA – Pure Flix’s “A Question of Faith,” the first faith-based feature film produced by an African American female-led production company, has accomplished a rare feat in the movie business: an A+ Cinema Score. On average, less than five movies a year receive this top honor. Cinema Score surveys film audiences after they see […]
President Barack Obama, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Dr. Christine King Farris and Ambassador Andrew Young Acknowledge Dr. Joseph E. Lowery’s 96th Birthday
Atlanta, GA – While President Barack Obama and Congresswoman Maxine Waters sent birthday greetings, Ambassador Andrew Young, Martin Luther King III and Dr. Martin L. King Jr’s sister, Dr. Christine King Farris were among celebrities and dignitaries on hand in Atlanta to acknowledge the 96th birthday of civil rights leader and former King confidant, Dr. […]