NFL Star Malcolm Jenkins to Produce Docuseries on the History of Black Wealth in America (Exclusive)
Malcolm Jenkins, the two-time Super Bowl champion and current New Orleans Saints star, is set to produce a documentary series about the history of Black wealth in America.
Titled “Little Africa,” the series aims to draw a correlation between the dispossession of land and the existing wealth and political gaps in the United States. It is being produced by Jenkins’ production company Listen Up Media, in collaboration with the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University.
Jenkins has tapped documentarian Zatella Beatty to direct the series. Beatty made her directorial debut in 2014 with “Iverson,” about the life of NBA legend Allen Iverson, and is also currently working on another docuseries which explores the history, impact and future of women in law enforcement.
“It is becoming more and more difficult to discuss the racial disparities that exist all around us, between mixed media messages and social media. The further removed...
Titled “Little Africa,” the series aims to draw a correlation between the dispossession of land and the existing wealth and political gaps in the United States. It is being produced by Jenkins’ production company Listen Up Media, in collaboration with the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University.
Jenkins has tapped documentarian Zatella Beatty to direct the series. Beatty made her directorial debut in 2014 with “Iverson,” about the life of NBA legend Allen Iverson, and is also currently working on another docuseries which explores the history, impact and future of women in law enforcement.
“It is becoming more and more difficult to discuss the racial disparities that exist all around us, between mixed media messages and social media. The further removed...
- 6/25/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival is in full swing, running through April 27 - film selections includes feature films from 32 countries, including 55 World Premieres, 6 International Premieres, 12 North American Premieres, 9 U.S. Premieres and 5 New York Premieres. Of note, in terms of African diaspora films (since that's our focus here), is Iverson - a feature-length documentary on the legacy of NBA star Allen Iverson, who rose from a childhood of crushing poverty in Hampton, Virginia, to one of the sports’ greatest success stories, as Iverson went on to become an 11-time NBA all star.Directed by Zatella Beatty, the film is...
- 4/23/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
PARK CITY -- The clip-joint film franchise, so deservedly profitable with the hilarious "Barbershop", has hit a snag with "The Salon", the distaff flip side. Centering on a black woman's hair salon, this girl-talk comedy is a cut below its predecessors. Still, "The Salon" should curl some respectable, if not terrific, boxoffice business. As a DVD purchase, where a whole room can hoot 'n' holler and talk back to the antics, "The Salon" should be a stylish performer.
Starring Vivica A. Fox as the owner of an inner-city hair salon, the movie is constant drama, most of it of the lowbrow variety. There is, indeed, a kooky array of customers and clippers, including: the fat 'n' sassy, the gold-digger, the gay stylist, the player, the abused woman, the white girl and, for gel, a cute little boy. To boot, there's a sidewalk full of knuckleheads, including two hoochies, their pimp, an old coot, a wino and assorted slugs and thugs.
Everybody has issues and a flair for in-your-face expression. There is some hilarity and amusing attitude, but in general this comedy is blow 'n' dry clowning. The prototypical characters slam through predictable confrontations and stereotypical antics. Pushing everyone's hot button generates noisy if not exactly raucous interactions. Every now and then someone delivers a sermon: on interracial dating, Halle's Oscar, child rearing. None are as funny as Cedric the Entertainer's sharp gibes in "Barbershop".
In writer-director Mark Brown's generic scenario, the plot is like an updated beehive as Jenny (Fox) fights City Hall to save her shop from being turned into a municipal parking lot. City Hall in this formulaic case is personified by a handsome lawyer Darrin Dewitt Henson) who inspires Jenny to new entrepreneurial and personal heights.
The players are a well-selected batch, including most prominently Fox as the "mother of the shop." Garrett Morris delivers an amusingly squirrely cameo as an old coot from the rest home who likes to hang with the ladies.
Amped up in the broadest and oldest of comic styles, "The Salon" could use some comic attachments, namely some strands of real human fibers instead of its synthetic character creations.
The Salon
C4 Pictures
Credits:
Producers: Mark Brown, Carl Craig, Vivica A. Fox
Screenwriter/director: Mark Brown
Executive producer: David T. Otom
Co-executive producers: Doug McHenry, Derrick Lea
Co-producers: Zatella Beatty, Lita Richardson, Brent Odom
Director of photography: Brandon Trost
Casting: Joe Adams
Key hair stylist: Sharmaine Jenkins
Editor: Earl Watson
Sound mixer: Greg Cosh
Line producer: Phil Garnes
Cast:
Jenny: Vivica A. Fox
LaShaunna: Kym Whitley
Tami: Brooke Burns
Michael: Darrin Dewitt Henson
Bob: Greg Germann
Patrick: Terrence Howard
Brenda: Monica Calhoun
Ricky: Dondre Whitfield
Trina: Taral Hicks
D.D.: D'Angelo Wilson
Trey: Dabir Snell
Percy: Garrett Morris
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 92 minutes...
Starring Vivica A. Fox as the owner of an inner-city hair salon, the movie is constant drama, most of it of the lowbrow variety. There is, indeed, a kooky array of customers and clippers, including: the fat 'n' sassy, the gold-digger, the gay stylist, the player, the abused woman, the white girl and, for gel, a cute little boy. To boot, there's a sidewalk full of knuckleheads, including two hoochies, their pimp, an old coot, a wino and assorted slugs and thugs.
Everybody has issues and a flair for in-your-face expression. There is some hilarity and amusing attitude, but in general this comedy is blow 'n' dry clowning. The prototypical characters slam through predictable confrontations and stereotypical antics. Pushing everyone's hot button generates noisy if not exactly raucous interactions. Every now and then someone delivers a sermon: on interracial dating, Halle's Oscar, child rearing. None are as funny as Cedric the Entertainer's sharp gibes in "Barbershop".
In writer-director Mark Brown's generic scenario, the plot is like an updated beehive as Jenny (Fox) fights City Hall to save her shop from being turned into a municipal parking lot. City Hall in this formulaic case is personified by a handsome lawyer Darrin Dewitt Henson) who inspires Jenny to new entrepreneurial and personal heights.
The players are a well-selected batch, including most prominently Fox as the "mother of the shop." Garrett Morris delivers an amusingly squirrely cameo as an old coot from the rest home who likes to hang with the ladies.
Amped up in the broadest and oldest of comic styles, "The Salon" could use some comic attachments, namely some strands of real human fibers instead of its synthetic character creations.
The Salon
C4 Pictures
Credits:
Producers: Mark Brown, Carl Craig, Vivica A. Fox
Screenwriter/director: Mark Brown
Executive producer: David T. Otom
Co-executive producers: Doug McHenry, Derrick Lea
Co-producers: Zatella Beatty, Lita Richardson, Brent Odom
Director of photography: Brandon Trost
Casting: Joe Adams
Key hair stylist: Sharmaine Jenkins
Editor: Earl Watson
Sound mixer: Greg Cosh
Line producer: Phil Garnes
Cast:
Jenny: Vivica A. Fox
LaShaunna: Kym Whitley
Tami: Brooke Burns
Michael: Darrin Dewitt Henson
Bob: Greg Germann
Patrick: Terrence Howard
Brenda: Monica Calhoun
Ricky: Dondre Whitfield
Trina: Taral Hicks
D.D.: D'Angelo Wilson
Trey: Dabir Snell
Percy: Garrett Morris
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 92 minutes...
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