Fancelyne Cummings, who’s featured within the movie “Mom Suriname.”
Photograph courtesy Tessa Leuwsha
Season 17 of AfroPoP: The Final Cultural Change, the Peabody Award-winning sequence by Black Public Media (BPM) and WORLD, started on Monday, June 9, with a powerful lineup of documentary and narrative movies, together with the premiere of “Mom Suriname.”
“Mom Suriname,” a documentary characteristic by Tessa Leuwsha, makes use of colorized archival footage and gripping narration to pay a touching tribute to the director’s grandmother in colonial Suriname.
It offers a voice to the washerwoman — and her friends — whereas offering a uncommon and eye-opening glimpse into Dutch colonialism and its ramifications.
The movie will likely be adopted by “The Altering Similar,” an award-winning US documentary shot by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster.
The impactful quick captures Marianna, Fla., resident and poet L. Lamar Wilson, who mounts a marathon run trying to carry the veil on a extremely publicized 1934 lynching of a Black farmhand named Claude Neal.
The season transports viewers across the globe and to locations previous, current, and future with award-winning movies that stir the senses and fulfill the soul, together with a story directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams and govt produced by Lin-Guide Miranda and Stephen Hendel, amongst others.
Offered by Black Public Media, WORLD, and PBS Plus, AfroPoP stays the one US-based public media present centered on unbiased documentaries and narrative movies about up to date life, artwork, and tradition from the African Diaspora.
Every episode of AfroPoP will likely be broadcast weekly on public tv’s WORLD and streamed on WORLD’s YouTube channel and the Black Public Media YouTube channel.
Season 17 episodes will likely be accessible to stream on the PBS App on that date. PBS Plus will even launch the season to further public tv stations nationwide weekly.
The sequence is govt produced by BPM Government Director Leslie Fields-Cruz and WORLD (at GBH) Government Producer Nina Chaudry. Denise A. Greene is the sequence producer/director, Carol Bash is the sequence co-producer/director, and Ashton Pina is the sequence author.
“AfroPoP continues to evolve every season, showcasing a vibrant array of movies fueled by the creativity and boldness of filmmakers inside our increasing neighborhood,” mentioned Fields-Cruz. “Whereas these tales discover numerous histories, traditions, and even universes, additionally they reveal the shared connections that unite all humankind.”
“As soon as once more, WORLD is happy to affix Black Public Media to carry this dynamic sequence to the viewing public,” mentioned Chaudry. “The great thing about AfroPoP is that it gives stations a chance to ship tales from across the huge African diaspora that American audiences gained’t discover simply.”
With season 17, since its premiere in 2008, AfroPoP has introduced 97 characteristic and quick movies on public media, providing a variety of tales concerning the African Diaspora.
Among the many many famous administrators whose movies have appeared within the sequence are George Amponsah, Joel Zito Araújo, Violeta Ayala, Blitz Bazawule, Yaba Blay, Barron Claiborne, Rebecca Richman Cohen, Bobbito Garcia, Alain Gomis, Thomas Allen Harris, Eric Kabera, Terence Nance, Raoul Peck, Sam Pollard, Michèle Stephenson and Marco Williams.
