This new podcast is hosted by two of the all-female team of academics, film programmers & social researchers behind website myDylarama, Abla Kandalaft and Coco Green. We’ll discuss films/TV series/screen-related matters in relation to social, racial and economic issues with occasional guests, and good indie international films. You can support us at https://ko-fi.com/mydy and subscribe at mydy.link/subscribe for offers, discounts and goodies from our partners.
Episodes
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Our Picks + Judas And The Black Messiah
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Highlights this week include the Glasgow Film Festival, entirely online, with its usual strong selection and carefully curated programmes, running from 24 February to 7 March and MLK/FBI is a 2020 American documentary directed by Sam Pollard who co-directed the 1987 doc Eyes on the Prize, which traces the FBI's investigation of Martin Luther King. Obviously Eyes on the Prize comes up as we discuss our main film of the evening: Judas And The Black Messiah directed by Shaka King, a powerful and much-needed portrait of Black Panther Fred Hampton and a dramatised account of the BFI's infiltration of the Black Panthers and subversion of Hampton's community organising, which eventually led to his assassination.
We discuss the history and depiction of the Panthers, the concept of a "rainbow coalition", the professionalisation of community organising and the shift from class/race to identity politics.
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