“American dream. I’m the American dream” Oscar nominated actress Renée Zellweger reveals to Vanity Fair in its 2020 Hollywood issue about her immigrant heritage and the impact of having immigrant parents. Born to a Swiss father and a Norwegian mother the actress acknowledges the fear that has consumed immigrant communities:
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Karine Jean-Pierre recently introduced her new book MOVING FORWARD: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America (Nov 5, 2019; HarperCollins/Hanover Square) with national interviews on The Today Show, Morning Joe, and with Nicole Wallace on Deadline White House. We are very excited to bring her to LA!
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DaVido shared his long anticipated album “So Much Fun” with a small group of excited fans and friends in New York. He celebrated the album at the YouTube Space the evening before the official drop of the album in the United States.
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The powerful, heart-pounding and soul-searching words written by our most vulnerable youth are performed through song, dance, poetry and storytelling. Join us at Voices of the Unheard / FREEDOM to witness multiple performances, including a special performance of an excerpt of Spirit Awakening, the critically acclaimed one-woman play written and performed by Akuyoe Graham, award-winning playwright, actor and Founder & Executive Director of Spirit Awakening Foundation.
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LEGACY DOCUMENTARIES are fundamentally created for two reasons: to leave a legacy or to use the film for PR purposes. The latter is especially true for bigger entities or businesses. Once you have your own LEGACY DOCUMENTARY completed, you can show it to news outlets, book publishers, or broadcasters.
DetailsELYFER TORRES, ERIC MCCORMACK, LAURIE METCALF, ALFRE WOODARD, MELISSA BENOIST, WAYNE BRADY, MARCIA CROSS, GRANT GUSTIN, CHEYENNE JACKSON, JANE LYNCH, GINA TORRES, AND MORE SET FOR “CONCERT FOR AMERICA”
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Designer Prabal Gurung made a different kind of fashion statement on the runway during his New York Fashion Week show on Sunday, sending models down the catwalk with beauty pageant-style sashes that asked “Who gets to be American?”
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The 28th annual PAFF, the nation’s largest and most prestigious Black film festival will be held on February 13-23, 2020 in Los Angeles. Over the years, it has showcased films from all parts of the world, representing such countries as Angola, Nigeria, Jamaica, New Zealand, Rwanda, Canada, Mozambique, Egypt, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Brazil, Kenya, Fiji, Mexico, the U.K., South Africa, England, Japan, France and of course, the United States. With the pulse on the international film market, PAFF has opened the minds of its audiences, and transported them to far-away places and back home again.
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2018’s Crazy Rich Asians was a fun, funny, feel-good movie, and a blast to watch. But one of the reasons it was such a big deal was that it successfully pushed back on Hollywood’s typical stereotyping of Asian actors. We don’t have to get into the specifics, but suffice it to say the film industry tends to employ Asian talent to fill a few typecast roles, which can overall contribute to a belittling, offensive, and notably inaccurate societal perception of an entire race or ethnicity.
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The actress, who’s in the upcoming movie “Hustlers,” sat down with “The Off Camera Show” and recounted a childhood memory in which a teacher wrongly accused her of plagiarism while she was in middle school. Though the experience deeply affected her, she explained that she never told her parents for a reason that may sound familiar to many from immigrant families.
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