“And he came out of his office one day to grab a coffee or something, and said to me, ‘I’m thinking that the scene on Giedi Prime should be black and white.’ I said, ‘That’s genius ...

"What is a Black movie?" It was a question Justin Simien, who first grabbed Hollywood's attention with his debut feature, 2014's HBCU comedy "Dear White People," asked a number of top-tier filmmakers.

“Hollywood Black,” director Justin Simien’s too-personalized history of black people in American film, would have been more credible if just one critic—Armond White, perhaps—had come out ...

Black points of view and voices have often been marginalized or overlooked in Hollywood. However, Cuban filmmakers have told ...