Rosario Dawson, Jesse Williams and Aloe Blacc are among this year’s Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award recipients.
The honors — also presented to Aja Monet, Matt Post, Carmen Perez-Jordan, RodStarz and Sean Pica — were handed out at the 2024 Tribeca Festival on Friday, following the world premiere screening of the Belafonte doc Following Harry, directed by Susanne Rostock and featuring the honorees.
The award, which Tribeca first presented in 2021, recognizes individuals who used storytelling and the arts to enact change in their communities. Political activist and author Angela Davis presented the awards.
Dawson, an outspoken activist for various causes, co-founded Voto Latino, focused on educating and empowering Latinx voters, and Studio One Eighty Nine, a lifestyle artisan-forward brand produced in Ghana celebrating African heritage. She has also worked on issues including youth homelessness and domestic violence.
Williams, known for his roles in series like Grey’s Anatomy and Only Murders in the Building,...
The honors — also presented to Aja Monet, Matt Post, Carmen Perez-Jordan, RodStarz and Sean Pica — were handed out at the 2024 Tribeca Festival on Friday, following the world premiere screening of the Belafonte doc Following Harry, directed by Susanne Rostock and featuring the honorees.
The award, which Tribeca first presented in 2021, recognizes individuals who used storytelling and the arts to enact change in their communities. Political activist and author Angela Davis presented the awards.
Dawson, an outspoken activist for various causes, co-founded Voto Latino, focused on educating and empowering Latinx voters, and Studio One Eighty Nine, a lifestyle artisan-forward brand produced in Ghana celebrating African heritage. She has also worked on issues including youth homelessness and domestic violence.
Williams, known for his roles in series like Grey’s Anatomy and Only Murders in the Building,...
- 6/14/2024
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are few One Piece moments as unforgettable as the first time Roronoa Zoro uses his swords — two in his hands and one clenched between his teeth. Dental bills aside, if you have the grit and determination to wield a sword in your mouth, you have what it takes to sail the Grand Line. And sure, Roronoa Zoro might get lost from time to time (from time to time to time), but he’s also the best first crew member that Monkey D. Luffy could’ve ever chosen. Related: Meet Monkey D. Luffy: One Piece Anime 25th Anniversary Spotlight 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the debut of the One Piece anime, and to celebrate, we’re shining a monthly spotlight on the members of the finest crew of pirates ever to sail across the sea (or your TV screen): the Straw Hats . Each month, we’ll dive deep into a member of Monkey D.
- 6/1/2024
- by Daniel Dockery
- Crunchyroll
Cauleen Smith’s 1998 debut about a California girl who takes Polaroids of young black men as an endangered-species record, is captivating
The title is an African American term from the US south meaning “ordinary” or “ordinariness” – but there’s nothing ordinary about this 1998 indie from artist and film-maker Cauleen Smith, rereleased for its 25th anniversary. Smith shot it in her 20s while still in grad school at UCLA, and maybe the film does have a distinctive film-school project feel with its DIY aesthetic. But there is a captivating kind of innocence in its walking-pace narrative, its indifference to the irony and self-awareness that was fashionable in independent cinema at the time, and in the unaffected charm and guilelessness of its performances.
Toby Smith plays Pica, a girl who lives with her mother and grandmother in a chaotic house near Oakland, California, where she is enrolled in a photography class; instead...
The title is an African American term from the US south meaning “ordinary” or “ordinariness” – but there’s nothing ordinary about this 1998 indie from artist and film-maker Cauleen Smith, rereleased for its 25th anniversary. Smith shot it in her 20s while still in grad school at UCLA, and maybe the film does have a distinctive film-school project feel with its DIY aesthetic. But there is a captivating kind of innocence in its walking-pace narrative, its indifference to the irony and self-awareness that was fashionable in independent cinema at the time, and in the unaffected charm and guilelessness of its performances.
Toby Smith plays Pica, a girl who lives with her mother and grandmother in a chaotic house near Oakland, California, where she is enrolled in a photography class; instead...
- 5/6/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Zoro’s left eye, which has been closed for a while now, has had many theories developed around it. He first appeared with a missing left eye in One Piece after completing his training with Mihawk during the time skip. Some fans believe that he was injured during his training with Mihawk, while some believe he keeps it shut so that he can improve his precision.
Zoro’s Missing Eye
Knowing Eiichiro Oda’s habit of foreshadowing, One Piece fans think his left eye has some kind of significance that will be revealed later on to enhance his character in some way. Zoro perfected almost all of his abilities when he was training with Mihawk. He was not only able to polish his swordsman skills but also learn the Haki abilities.
Zoro is a master of all Haki techniques except the Observation Haki. Although he can use it to an extent,...
Zoro’s Missing Eye
Knowing Eiichiro Oda’s habit of foreshadowing, One Piece fans think his left eye has some kind of significance that will be revealed later on to enhance his character in some way. Zoro perfected almost all of his abilities when he was training with Mihawk. He was not only able to polish his swordsman skills but also learn the Haki abilities.
Zoro is a master of all Haki techniques except the Observation Haki. Although he can use it to an extent,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Tarun Kohli
- FandomWire
Cauleen Smith’s capricious, slyly resourceful DIY feature debut, Drylongso, follows photography student Pica (Toby Smith) as she struggles to find her artistic voice in a school whose methodology is disconnected from the harsh realities of late-’90s Oakland. Countless Black men in her neighborhood have been victimized by police and gang violence or mercilessly swallowed by the prison industrial complex, and now there’s a serial killer on the loose targeting Black youth. In the film’s first scene, Pica even witnesses another young woman, Tobi (April Barnett), get beaten up in front of her house and abandoned by her boyfriend (Timothy Braggs).
Pica copes with, and confronts, these various forms of violence by taking Polaroid photos of as many Black men as she can, explaining to Tobi, whom she soon befriends, that it’s because they’re becoming an endangered species. A supportive teacher, Mr. Yamada (Salim Akil...
Pica copes with, and confronts, these various forms of violence by taking Polaroid photos of as many Black men as she can, explaining to Tobi, whom she soon befriends, that it’s because they’re becoming an endangered species. A supportive teacher, Mr. Yamada (Salim Akil...
- 8/30/2023
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
In Drylongso, Pica (Toby Smith) coughs her way through each day. She goes to photography class at the local college, works nights putting up posters for various missing persons and political organizers, and survives in a household with her mother and grandmother, along with an open-door assortment of the former’s friends. Her sickness becomes an afterthought, a part of her character that cannot be fixed, treated, or resolved.
Pica documents the Black men in her neighborhood in Oakland, several of which have gone missing or have been murdered by an anonymous serial killer. She asks them, “Can I take your picture?” pulls out her Polaroid camera, and snaps a shot, keeping them in a rubber-banded stack in her backpack. Her photography, and her extended art, can be seen as a way of documentation, but also as remembrance. Funerals keep happening, but at least these young Black men dying have this “evidence of existence,...
Pica documents the Black men in her neighborhood in Oakland, several of which have gone missing or have been murdered by an anonymous serial killer. She asks them, “Can I take your picture?” pulls out her Polaroid camera, and snaps a shot, keeping them in a rubber-banded stack in her backpack. Her photography, and her extended art, can be seen as a way of documentation, but also as remembrance. Funerals keep happening, but at least these young Black men dying have this “evidence of existence,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
One of the long-overlooked gems of 1990s indie filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso has now been restored in 4K from The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A poignant and vibrant look at the life of an art student as she deals with academia, friendship, romance, and death circling around her, every frame of the dazzling new restoration pops. Now set for a theatrical release kicking off at Film at Lincoln Center on March 17, the new trailer and poster have arrived.
“A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Afrofuturist art star Cauleen Smith’s film embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie-murder mystery-romance,” reads the official synopsis. “Observing the alarming rate at which the young Black men around her are dying—indeed, “becoming extinct,” as she sees it—brash Oakland art student Pica (Toby Smith) begins preserving their existence in Polaroid snapshots,...
“A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Afrofuturist art star Cauleen Smith’s film embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie-murder mystery-romance,” reads the official synopsis. “Observing the alarming rate at which the young Black men around her are dying—indeed, “becoming extinct,” as she sees it—brash Oakland art student Pica (Toby Smith) begins preserving their existence in Polaroid snapshots,...
- 3/1/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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