In City of God — 10 Years Later, directors Cavi Borges and Luciano Vidigal explore the impact the Brazilian film City of God had on the favelas it depicts and on the child actors who actually lived in one of Rio’s favelas. The film strives to answer those questions in a “where are they now?”…
As an MFA candidate in the Television, Film and Theatre program at California State University, Los Angeles, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni originally set out to make a documentary about identity and race, using her Jamaican and white ancestry as the core of the story, as her thesis project. But since her concentration was on performance, a…
In a musical genre known for its misogyny and violent content, Iyana “YaNi” Davis wants to bring a little peace. YaNi’s latest project, The Rebel, dropped in June. It is the second installment in her “Who is YaNi?” mixtape trilogy. The first part of the trilogy, The Storyteller, was released in 2012, and she is finishing the…
The description on the Atlanta History Center’s Nicholson Gallery wall — which is currently home to The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey: Where Art and History Intersect — says that the exhibit strives to show the intersection of art and culture. Through an impressive collection of over 130 paintings, sculptures, papers and…
Nearly 500 years since the first traders forced Africans into bondage, slavery’s violent, disorienting consequences continue, not least in the tension between Africa and the West. What was once called “the white man’s burden,” an attempt to civilize backward people, is now considered imperialism, colonialism, racism and cultural misappropriation. Africa Atlanta, a year-long series of…
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