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Although the Senegalese filmmaker Sembène (1923-2007) was considered one of the world's leading directors, his work was largely unknown beyond rarefied cinephile circles. Often called "the Father of African film," he was a prominent novelist before turning to cinema in 1963 as the best way, considering the widespread prevalence of illiteracy on the continent, to reach a broad African audience. His 1968 first feature, Mandabi, was the first African...
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"Beginning with her critically acclaimed independent feature film Eve's Bayou (1997), writer-director Kasi Lemmons's mission has been to push the boundaries that exist in Hollywood. With Eve's Bayou, her first feature film, Lemmons (b. 1961) accomplished the rare feat of creating a film that was critically successful and one of the highest-grossing independent films of the year. Moreover, the cultural impact of Eve's Bayou endures, and in 2018 the...
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