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TIFF 2023: Memory, The Promised Land, Origin
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Spirit Awards 2024: A Platform for Essential Independent Films
The 15th Annual AAFCA Awards Announces Award Recipients
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The Year of Black Men in Cinema: Chaz Ebert’s Top Ten(-ish) Films of 2023
Chaz Ebert Celebrates 25 Years of Ebertfest While Honored at University of Illinois Alumni Awards Gala
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TIFF 2023: Rustin, Sing Sing
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Comic-Con Without the Stars
XL Film Festival Runs August 18-20
Cannes 2023: DePaul University/CHA Youth Resident Filmmakers Isis Gullette, Unique Moore and Christal Westmoreland Arrive in the Riviera
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 -1971, Kicks Off with Screening Series
Oscar-winner Sam Mendes to Receive the 2022 TIFF Ebert Director Award on Sunday, September 11th
Roger Ebert’s Reviews of Oscar-winner Sam Mendes, Who Will Receive the 2022 TIFF Ebert Director Award
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Jacqueline Stewart, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Director and President, to Present Exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 -1971
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Black Representation in Youth Dramas – Degrassi Case Study
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Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Black Cinema & Television to Honor Will Smith, Ruth Negga and More on December 6th
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AAFCA TV Honors 2021 to Stream This Saturday, August 28th
Book Excerpt: Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film
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On Natalie Portman’s Statement Dress at the 2020 Oscars
Ebertfest Announces Kathryn Bostic and the Opening and Closing Night Films for 2020 Festival
Gil Robertson Talks to Chaz Ebert About the Importance of the African American Film Critics Awards and AAFCA
Stars Shine at the 25th Critics Choice Awards
Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ 2019 EDA Awards Honor Little Women, Parasite and More
The 4-Star Films of 2019
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A Letter to Roger About Michael Apted’s 63 Up
Sundance 2020 Announces Competition, Midnight, Premiere Titles and More
The Best Television of the Decade
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