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Cinematographer Charlie Jenkins won two prizes.
The UK’S National Film and Television School (Nfts) has awarded prizes to its students at the 2021 Graduation Showcase, held in-person at the BFI Southbank and Odeon Leicester Square in London.
The showcase took place over four days of socially-distanced screenings and networking at the Southbank venue, following the graduation ceremony on Monday May 24 at the Odeon, where Sam Mendes was awarded an Nfts honorary fellowship.
Cinematography Ma student Charlie Jenkins won two key awards – the £1,000 prize for Most Promising Student; and the best cinematographer award for his work on fiction film Muse, for...
The UK’S National Film and Television School (Nfts) has awarded prizes to its students at the 2021 Graduation Showcase, held in-person at the BFI Southbank and Odeon Leicester Square in London.
The showcase took place over four days of socially-distanced screenings and networking at the Southbank venue, following the graduation ceremony on Monday May 24 at the Odeon, where Sam Mendes was awarded an Nfts honorary fellowship.
Cinematography Ma student Charlie Jenkins won two key awards – the £1,000 prize for Most Promising Student; and the best cinematographer award for his work on fiction film Muse, for...
- 5/28/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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Homeland and Supergirl actor David Harewood is to front a BBC Two documentary on the history of blackface minstrelsy after recent controversy about the issue in several high-profile comedy shows.
Blackface With David Harewood will explore the origins of blackface in early 19th-century America and how the form of entertainment, which acted as a delivery system for racist tropes, made its way to Britain. According to the logline, he will seek to understand how it shaped ideas of blackness in popular culture and why it endured so long.
The hour-long film is made by historian David Olusoga’s Uplands Television. Harewood is writing and presenting, while the producer and directors are Eric Haynes and Nia Campbell. Executive producers are Olusoga, Mike Smith, and Harewood.
Comedy faced a reckoning over blackface last year, when the BBC and Netflix removed episodes of Little Britain from their libraries after the Matt Lucas and...
Blackface With David Harewood will explore the origins of blackface in early 19th-century America and how the form of entertainment, which acted as a delivery system for racist tropes, made its way to Britain. According to the logline, he will seek to understand how it shaped ideas of blackness in popular culture and why it endured so long.
The hour-long film is made by historian David Olusoga’s Uplands Television. Harewood is writing and presenting, while the producer and directors are Eric Haynes and Nia Campbell. Executive producers are Olusoga, Mike Smith, and Harewood.
Comedy faced a reckoning over blackface last year, when the BBC and Netflix removed episodes of Little Britain from their libraries after the Matt Lucas and...
- 3/25/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
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