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Hip Hop
Film News: Chicago’s 2018 Black Harvest Film Festival Closes with ‘Fear of a Black Hat’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 29, 2018 - 3:14pmCHICAGO – The month long celebration that is the 2018 Black Harvest Film Festival is coming to a close on August 30th with a special revival screening of 1993’s “Fear of a Black Hat.” The ahead-of-its-time hip hop “mockumentary” chronicles the misadventures of the group NWH. Director Rusty Cundieff will make an appearance of behalf of the film’s 25th Anniversary. Over its run, the Black Harvest Film Festival featured a cornucopia of African American themed features and shorts celebrating stories, dreams, history and legacy.
Interview: In Appreciation of Phife Dawg, Member of ‘A Tribe Called Quest’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 27, 2016 - 5:14pmCHICAGO – It was announced last week on March 22nd, 2016, that a hip-hop pioneer, Phife Dawg of the group “A Tribe Called Quest,” passed away at the age of 45. It was Phife, along with Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White, that created a new voice in the evolution from rap to hip hop.
Interview: Director Carmen Marron’s Passion to ‘Go For It!’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 12, 2011 - 8:36amCHICAGO – What if you had a deep desire and passion to make a movie? Would you know what to do, how to go about it? Carmen Marron was in that spot seven years ago, with no connections, no clue on how to do it, only that necessary passion and desire. This Friday, her hip-hop dance film, “Go for It!” opens in 250 theaters nationwide.
