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In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Born in Columbia and raised in Mexico, Rodrigo Garcia is an award-winning writer and director of the feature films Nine Lives, Albert Nobbs and Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her. He directed many seminal TV series including Six Feet Under, The Sopranos and In Treatment. He is an Executive Producer of the upcoming Netflix series based on Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He recently published the memoir, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes, about his parents Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha.
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