The Criterion Collection
This Oscar-winning director began his career as a visual artist before moving on to create audacious narrative features about marginalized people, including the Black community in his native London.
Chrystel Oloukoï is an artist, film critic, and curator focusing on experimental cinema, queer cinema, and Black continental and diasporic cinema. They hold a PhD from Harvard University and work at the University of Washington. Their writing has appeared in...
Ife Olujobi is a Brooklyn-based playwright and editor. Their play Jordans was produced at the Public Theater and won a 2025 Obie Award for playwriting. She has been an artist-in-residence at Ars Nova, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Ensemble Studio Theater,...
Fred Camper is an artist who makes digital prints, mostly photo-based, and has for many decades been a writer and lecturer on film and art. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the School of...
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