AfroPoP: The Final Cultural Change, the award-winning sequence by Black Public Media (BPM) and WORLD, debuts season 16 on April 1.
The sequence, famend for its highly effective documentaries, rebrands as the general public media dwelling for each documentary and narrative movies concerning the world Black expertise.
Along with real-life tales about fights for prison and environmental justice in America, this season shines the highlight on Kenya, with two prize-winning narrative movies on redemption and resilient pleasure.
AfroPoP premieres on WORLD, the WORLD YouTube Channel, the Black Public Media YouTube channel and the PBS App.
New episodes premiere weekly on WORLD by April 22, and PBS Plus will distribute the sequence to PBS affiliate public tv stations throughout the nation starting April 1.
The sequence is government produced by BPM Govt Director Leslie Fields-Cruz and WORLD (at GBH) Editor and Chief Chris Hastings. Denise A. Greene is sequence director/producer, Carol Bash is sequence affiliate producer, and Ashton Pina is the sequence author.
“Starting this season, AfroPoP expands to additionally embrace narrative options, guaranteeing that filmmakers have a number of methods to seize the breadth of Black tales and points,” mentioned Fields-Cruz.
AfroPoP has offered 91 function and brief movies spotlighting tales from throughout the African diaspora since its premiere in 2008.
“AfroPoP is greater than only a sequence; it’s a vibrant tapestry that stitches collectively the voices of marginalized communities, providing a platform for tales which are too typically missed. WORLD’s mission is to light up the various sides of the human expertise by content material that educates, informs and evokes,” mentioned Hastings. “In partnership with Black Public Media, with AfroPoP, we proceed to push expertise by content material that educates, informs and evokes.
“In partnership with Black Public Media, with AfroPoP, we proceed to push boundaries, discovering progressive methods to attach audiences with content material that displays their lives and experiences. Be part of us as we have fun the voices, the tales and the influence of the African Diaspora on our world,” he added.
Season 16 movies embrace Commuted by Nailah Jefferson, which follows Danielle Metz, as she is freed by decree of President Obama after spending half of her life behind bars.
As she returns to her dwelling in New Orleans, will she be capable to discover her footing and join together with her now grownup youngsters?
Launched throughout Second Likelihood Month, a nationwide month celebrated every April to focus on methods to assist the previously incarcerated reenter society, Commuted is a co-presentation of AfroPoP and America ReFramed.
In 2019, Jefferson gained $100,000 in manufacturing funding for the movie from BPM’s PitchBLACK pitching contest.
Darcy McKinnon, the producer of the movie Commuted — which is the season opening movie of AfroPoP: The Final Cultural Change season 16 — has Caribbean heritage.
McKinnon’s father’s mom is from Guanaja, Bay Islands, Honduras. Earlier than that, a part of their household got here from Grand Cayman.
McKinnon mentioned she is at the moment engaged on a Caribbean mission, a movie, by Barbadian director Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, known as The First Plantation.
She informed Caribbean Life that the movie will discover “the ghastly improvements in seventeenth century plantation tradition” that established Barbados as “the world’s first economic system powered completely by slavery” and the way that plantation-based economic system “unfold throughout the Caribbean and to the American South, serving to to put the groundwork for the systemic racism and white supremacy that also hang-out the complete western hemisphere to today.”
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange may also be seen on WORLD’s YouTube channel and on all station-branded PBS platforms, together with PBS.org and the PBS Video app.
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