Built on Zydeco,' directed by Milton Arceneaux and Dustin Cravins, will screen this week at the 29th New Orleans French Film Festival.

African music is dominating the global soundscape, with Afrobeats and other genres reshaping mainstream music worldwide. But Rick Ross says this moment was inevitable — and believes Africa’s global ...

Wildscreen Festival is returning to Nairobi, Kenya, for its fourth African-based edition, scheduled for June 11 and 12.

Oscar for an NFB film--and 1st for the Montreal animation duo MONTREAL, March 15, 2026 /CNW/ - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's haunting stop-motion fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls is an Oscar ...

Showcasing an international cast of world class dancers, Zikr Dance Ensemble’s 2026 Spring Season, “Runes”, will explore the power and transformative energies of some of history's most iconic symbols ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and WIF have announced the six participants for the 2026 Episodic Lab. The Episodic Lab, supported by the Golden Globe Foundation, helps prepare women writers and writers of ...

Gayle Anderson reports on the 2026 Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF), founded in 1992, it began as a cultural response to the civil unrest that rocked Los Angeles that same year. During the past ...

OPB’s Paul Marshall II sat down to talk with co-director Eugénie Jolivett Fontana about the festival. The festival runs through March 7. The following interview has been edited for clarity. Eugénie ...

It’s a strange but perhaps fitting paradox of these uncertain times that while African cinema is enjoying greater visibility than ever before, the market for that output could very well be shrinking.

Watch these selections that highlight the range and evolution of Black film. By Robert Daniels Founded in 1926 as a one-week observance by the historian Carter G. Woodson, the annual celebration of ...