To lionize Black filmmakers and serve educate viewers about the Black experience in America , the Criterion Collection is making a number of films by Black filmmakers — and documentary film by white filmmakers that pore on disgraceful story — free to stream on theCriterion Channel .
As IndieWirereports , the selection admit : Kathleen Collins’sLosing Ground(1982 ) , one of the first feature article films direct by a disastrous woman ; Cheryl Dunye’sThe Watermelon Woman(1996 ) , the first lineament plastic film directed by a Black lesbian;Maya Angelou’sdirectorial debutDown in the Delta(1998 ) ; Julie Dash ’s 1991 filmDaughters in the Dust , about a multigenerational kinsperson in the Gullah community of interests in the other 20th hundred ; Agnès Varda ’s 1968 documentaryBlack Panthers ; and many more .
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The society has also announce the creation of an ongoing fund “ to support arrangement contend racism in America , including bail monetary resource , residential area organisation , sound denial fund , and advocacy group that address police reform . ” Their initial pledge is $ 25,000 , with an extra $ 5000 per calendar month going onward , and they design to share details about which organisation they ’re donate to on their Twitter and Instagram accounts .
you could range the full offer of free filmshere .
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