Everything you need to know about tonight's events, follows in the release below, so read it: Join us this Thursday, October 25th, 7pm to 9pm, for our inaugural Afro-cinematique showcase featuring World Premiere episodes of Al Thompson's Lenox Avenue along with episodes from Nelson George's Left Unsaid digital series and more! Join Nelson George, Al Thompson, Tigist Selam, Belinda Becker and others for this showcase of Black webisodes. Lenox Avenue follows the fast-paced metropolitan lives of Harlemite friends Owen (Al Thompson, The Royal Tenenbaums), Sellars (Dorian Missick, Southland), and Vaughn (Ryan Vigilant, Gossip Girl) as they learn that in relationships even...
- 10/25/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
"Black Americans seem to think that their vision of race is the only one that matters. In Canada and England, they don't have our history and so they view race differently," says Nelson George, a cultural historian and filmmaker who candidly explores race, sex, parenting, gentrification, internet dating, the current whereabouts of Tupac (he's in Cuba!), and other hot-button issues in his voyeuristic web series, Left Unsaid. George, someone I have known and whose work I've followed for a decade now, has mastered every kind of creative medium as though life is some endless Exploratorium -- songwriting for Kurtis Blow, a play for Q Tip, directing an Emmy Award-winning film starring Queen Latifah, novels, non-fiction, memoirs -- and has fallen in love with producing for the web. The Internet's seemingly limitless possibility is a match for his energy. "Think about...
- 8/3/2010
- by Andrea Chalupa
- Huffington Post
I wasn’t aware that Nelson George was working on a web series… or maybe I was previously, but just forgot about it. Anyway, it premiered at the American Black Film Festival 2 weekends ago, and last week, made its online debut.
It’s called Left Unsaid, and, the synopsis according to the website, reads as follows: Left Unsaid begins with a woman using Facebook to invite a large group of women to her new Brooklyn apartment for Sunday brunch. Marisol, recently separated from her music executive husband, has just landed in the Fort Greene area from Manhattan and seeks out new friends in this trendy, rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
Social networking is the engine that brings this multi-cultural group of women together and it is a thematic link that holds together the various conversations and confrontations that happen on one long afternoon. The women are brought together, pulled a part, and...
It’s called Left Unsaid, and, the synopsis according to the website, reads as follows: Left Unsaid begins with a woman using Facebook to invite a large group of women to her new Brooklyn apartment for Sunday brunch. Marisol, recently separated from her music executive husband, has just landed in the Fort Greene area from Manhattan and seeks out new friends in this trendy, rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
Social networking is the engine that brings this multi-cultural group of women together and it is a thematic link that holds together the various conversations and confrontations that happen on one long afternoon. The women are brought together, pulled a part, and...
- 7/6/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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