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Interview: Chris Adams: Building Worlds from the South Side

Interview: Chris Adams: Building Worlds from the South Side

Chicago Oct 18, 2025 0

Christopher Adams, a Chicago native and founder of Impakt Studio, combines self-reliance with creativity in film and animation. His versatile works include Grammy-nominated music videos and documentaries. Influenced by his father’s ingenuity, Adams emphasizes care in storytelling, aiming to rewrite narratives about Chicago’s Black community while fostering an independent film ecosystem.

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Interview: Chris Adams: Building Worlds from the South Side

Interview: Chris Adams: Building Worlds from the South Side

ChicagoDirectorsFeaturesFilm HistoryFilm ShowcaseInterviewsProductionUnited States October 18, 2025 0

Christopher Adams, a Chicago native and founder of Impakt Studio, combines self-reliance with creativity in film and animation. His versatile works include Grammy-nominated music videos and documentaries. Influenced by his father’s ingenuity, Adams emphasizes care in storytelling, aiming to rewrite narratives about Chicago’s Black community while fostering an independent film ecosystem.

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INTERVIEW: Walking the Path with Mandla Dube: Kalushi/Makeba/Yasuke

INTERVIEW: Walking the Path with Mandla Dube: Kalushi/Makeba/Yasuke

AnimationDirectorsFilm HistoryFilm ShowcaseIn-ProductionInternationalInterviewsMixed BagProductionReflectionsSouth AfricaTrailers October 12, 2025 0

“That’s the thing about Mandla: his life is always rooted somewhere in the land, history, and struggle, even when he’s jetting between Johannesburg, Bologna, and Tokyo.”

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Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl: Julie Dash’s Celebration of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl: Julie Dash’s Celebration of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

CinematographyDistributionDocumentaryExhibitionFeaturesIn-ProductionSeriesShowcaseTrailersWomenWorks-in-Progress September 25, 2025 0

Julie Dash is creating a documentary titled Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, exploring the life of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, a culinary and cultural pioneer. The series showcases her journey from a Gullah Geechee community to global influence, emphasizing her contributions to food as a means of identity, resistance, and liberation.

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Niyah’s Multiverse: Chicago’s Afrofuturist Lineage from Sun Ra to Adler Planetarium

Niyah’s Multiverse: Chicago’s Afrofuturist Lineage from Sun Ra to Adler Planetarium

AnimationExhibitionFeaturesReflectionsShowcaseTrailersWomenWriting September 23, 2025 0

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved father, brother, partner and uncle Menelik Shabazz, age 67.

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INTERVIEW: Logan Coles – Producer Rising

INTERVIEW: Logan Coles – Producer Rising

FeaturesInterviews September 23, 2025 0

As film and television is thrust into an ever-changing landscape with the advent of streaming and digital distribution, the art of storytelling remains the same. The craft of storytelling is still a process. As producing/writing partner to one Hollywood’s biggest stars, Logan Coles continues to rise with the past... Read more
What Stories Teach Us About Ourselves & Life

What Stories Teach Us About Ourselves & Life

ProductionWriting February 1, 2020

“After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” Philip Pullman Stories are as old as humankind itself and aren’t just something external to us that we discovered in prehistory. Stories are hardwired into the genetic code of the human-animal. Humans are beings... Read more
Approaches to Craft: You Are Only As Good As Your Research (so they say….)

Approaches to Craft: You Are Only As Good As Your Research (so they say….)

CraftMusicProductionSound February 1, 2020

Finally, we should look at how a black idiom and the sensibilities it has come to imply are appropriated for the associative value they lend to modernism – hip, sophisticated, ultra-urbane. Toni Morrison – ‘Playing In The Dark’ The oracle spoke. I wanted to play with the words above,... Read more
INTERVIEW: In The Editor’s Room

INTERVIEW: In The Editor’s Room

CraftEditingInterviewsProductionWomen January 31, 2020

Shannon Baker Davis discusses her journey as a film editor Writing, directing and producing are the media darlings of the filmmaking industry. But only through the process of editing is the real story crafted. With the upcoming release of the film, The Photograph, starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield,... Read more
Melanin Cinematography | Lighting

Melanin Cinematography | Lighting

CinematographyCraftProduction January 31, 2020

Introduction It propels the food chain, giving us life; it creates atmosphere, shaping our mood and affecting how we feel. We harness it to create experiences that allow us to curate time and space. We also harness it to influence how we curate character to an audience. That is... Read more
Our Skype Interview with Mandala Dube on his Netflix Release, Kalushi

Our Skype Interview with Mandala Dube on his Netflix Release, Kalushi

Film ShowcaseInterviewsShowcaseSouth Africa December 30, 2019

BFMMAG.COM Interviews Mandla Dube about his new Netflix release Kalushi MANDLA DUBE SHORT BIOGRAPHY Internationally acclaimed and award winning Director, and Producer, MANDLA WALTER DUBE was born in Mabopane, North West of Tshwane. Mandla lectured cinematography at Wits Television and at Tshwane University of Technology. While lecturing, he consulted in both Cinematography... Read more
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