Alec Baldwin

François Hollande

Angela Merkel

Kisilu Musya

Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm throws him and a Norwegian filmmaker together we see him transform from a father, to a community leader and activist on the global stage.

Thank You for the Rain

Thank You for the Rain (2017)

The special is in partnership with The Washington Post and staff writer Christian Davenport, whose depth of experience allowed him to gain inside access to key players.

Space Titans: Musk, Bezos Branson

Space Titans: Musk, Bezos Branson (2021)

Jeff Schine

Katie Leclerc

Martha Hackett

Victoria Barabas

Oliva is delivering a baby dramatically, and she is screaming for her husband, Harry. Harry isn't with his wife. He is in the bathroom, talking with a guy named Glen, who's wife is also about to deliver a baby. Olivia delivers the baby, and it is quickly whisked away. The baby dies. As Harry and Olivia mourn the death of their baby Glen and his wife, Brooke, happily take their daughter home.Olivia and Harry try to move on but have trouble and Glen hires Harry to join his firm. They go to a fancy party where Olivia recognizes the nurse from the delivery room at the party. The delivery nurse is supportive and gives Olivia her number. Olivia gets triggered when she sees Brooke and the baby. She smiles maniacally at the baby and then quickly leaves the party with her husband.While shopping for dresses, Brooke loses her baby. A judgy store clerk, "mom shames" Brooke for misplacing her baby. Brooke leaves the story flustered and runs into Olivia, who is conveniently right outside the boutique at a cafe with her friend. Olivia coos over the baby and has "baby-itious." (according to Olivia's RUDE and insensitive friend.)Harry and Olivia invite Glen and Brooke over for dinner. Olivia still has the nursery all set up and asks Brooke to use the room to nurse the baby while she watches. The women talk about breastfeeding. They put the baby down for a nap. Olivia thanks Brooke for helping her turn things around, she is ready to become a mother again. So much so that she breastfeeds the baby herself. Glen catches and is creeped out, he takes the baby, and they hightail it out of there. (He doesn't tell his wife what he saw.) The next morning he finds the baby car seat in the trash and gets a text saying. "Give me what I want!"A fulltime nanny named Janis is hired to watch the baby. Glen and Brooke go out on a date night, leaving the nanny home alone with the baby. The nanny drinks wine and chills out, maybe a little too much, because she passes out. A hooded figure sneaks into the house and tries to take the baby. The baby monitor wakes the nanny. She rushes to check the baby, but she is dragged downstairs and held by her feet upside down with her head in the pool. Janis drowns awkwardly.The next morning when Olivia hears about the drowning, she offers to help Brooke and Glen watch the baby. Brooke is so thankful that she doesn't hesitate to give the baby to Olivia immediately. Brooke takes a nap while Olivia plays with the baby. Glen doesn't feel comfortable and says that Olivia isn't trustworthy. Glen brings up the breastfeeding incident, but Brooke won't let him get it out because she is so sensitive about the subject.Harry discovers some missing money in the accounts that are likely being held up in offshore accounts. Glen is proud of Harry for catching the discrepancy. Harry gets a promotion because Glen is relocating his family to London. When Harry tells Olivia, she angrily chops carrots.Olivia begins to spiral. She can't be happy for Harry because she is too busy breaking chopsticks and staying up all night looking mad. She is relieved to hear that Glenn has a sexual assault charge against him and won't be going to London. Also, that means Harry will not be getting a promotion. Harry accuses Olivia of making the complaint to keep the baby close by. She denies everything and calls him crazy. Harry tells Glen that he thinks his wife made a claim.When Brooke denies Olivia's request to help babysit, Olivia rushes over to the house. She is stopped by a security agent who gives Olivia a letter from Brooke telling her to get help and stay away from her baby. As Olivia reads the letter, Brooke watches on from the window with the baby.Harry tells Olivia that he is going to sleep somewhere else and needs time to figure things out. He thinks she should get professional help too.Olivia drives to talk to Nurse Nancy from the delivery room. We learn that her mother has cancer, and she is taking care of her mom. Detectives question Olivia when she leaves Nancy's house. Olivia provides a lame movie excuse, but she doesn't remember the name... it was a foreign film. The detectives suspect her.With no one else to turn to, Olivia calls Nancy and tells her what happened. Nurse Nancy tells Olivia to meet her in the park. She sees Brooke first and is issued a restraining order. The security guard also tells her that her alibi is lame as hell.Later, at night Brooke is putting the baby to sleep and being watched by someone in a hoodie. The security guard does a perimeter check and thinks he sees something. As he is pointing a flashlight in the bushes, he gets hit in the head with a rock. Glen goes outside to investigate and trips over the security guards' body. He hears rustling in the bushes and fires a gun. Police are called to the scene and offer to have an armed car outside in case Olivia comes back.Harry has been tracking his wife's cellphone and knows she wasn't by the house when the attack happened. They drive and compare notes. They decide to talk to Nancy but are disappointed to learn only her sick mother is home. The ill mother spills the tea and tells them that Nancy has recently been on a trip to Santa Enrique. Harry snoops around the living room while the sick mother takes her meds and finds a money order. They realize that Nancy could be responsible and rush to tell Glen.Glen is confused but hears Olivia and Harry out. He unlocks a briefcase and pulls a gun on the couple. They are ushered into the basement by the gun-wielding Glen, who locks them in with Nurse Nancy's body. While they are in the basement, Olivia and Harry speculate that Nurse Nancy switched their baby and was paid $50,000 by Glen. They cry together and then realizes they need to get out of the basement.They get back to the main house, and Olivia grabs a knife. She struggles with Glen, who shoots the gun and wakes Brooke. Brooke grabs the weapon and is very confused. Olivia tells her everything, and Brooke's worst fears are confirmed. She knew something was off when the baby wouldn't breastfeed. Glen admits to stealing the baby with Nurse Nancy and paying for it. He hired Harry because he felt guilty for what he did. He killed Nurse Nancy when she continued to extort him for money. Glen wrestles the gun from his wife and gets accidentally shot in the process. He dies while apologizing.Flash to two years later, Olivia and Harry are reunited with their daughter. Brooke has a new fiance who is a Zaddy.

A Deadly Lullaby

A Deadly Lullaby (2020)

Fumi Nikaidô

Sairi Itô

Hana Toyoshima

Yoshinori Okada

A sentient period goes around harassing women at their time of the month.

Little Miss Period

Little Miss Period (2019)

Ron Perlman

Emmy Rossum

Paul Wesley

Stephanie Kurtzuba

A troubled young man and his strait-laced niece embark on a thrilling odyssey through New York City in this heartrending drama based on an Oscar-winning short. As his life hits rock bottom, 20-something Richie decides to end it all, only to have his half-hearted suicide attempt interrupted by an urgent request from his sister to babysit her precocious daughter. So begins a madcap tour of Manhattan after dark, as uncle and niece find unexpected bonds in the unlikeliest of places.—IFC Films

Before I Disappear

Before I Disappear (2014)

Mari Bensel

James Carney

Nils Schulz

Jörg Malchow

It is 1974, and in the Cold War paranoia of East and West Germany, it can be dangerous to know too much. But time is running out for Sophie Zimmermann. She is being hunted and the only way to survive is to find out the identity of The Man On The Other Side! In the style of classic 70s spy thrillers like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Ipcress File and Day Of The Jackal, The Man On The Other Side transports you back to a world of double crosses, of dark deeds in grey Eastern European cities and of danger lurking behind every kiss.—Marcus Lim

The Man on the Other Side

The Man on the Other Side (2019)

Paloma Kwiatkowski

Sandra Mae Frank

Marlee Matlin

Munro Chambers

Four brilliant university students are forced to confront themselves in terrifying ways when their quantum physics experiment leads to an entangled parallel existence that leaves them questioning who they are and what is real.

Multiverse

Multiverse (2019)

Sébastien Charles

Vincent Vizioz

Kiwani Cojo

Jules-Emmanuel Eyoum Deido

The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and how much do you want-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband it all starts with the arrival of an innocent-looking rat.—Matthieu Navarro

Sitcom

Sitcom (1998)

Pardeep Singh Sooch

Samuel Marty

Julian Black Antelope

Carla Fox

Donny, a trucker for W.E.C. Coal, runs over and kills Kharis Redwater, an anti-mining activist, while Kharis walks alone at night on an indigenous people reservation. Tribal police officer Betty Stonechild consoles Kharis' mother Mary Lynne while investigating the case with mountie Andy Evanshuk. Diner owner Frances helps manage the body.WEC surveyor Beth brings her fiancé Ray Patel with her to help assess the land for a coal mining operation. Beth complains of a foul smell while a blackbird circles overhead. An invisible entity suddenly mauls Beth to death. Betty and Andy investigate, but question Ray's unbelievable account of what supposedly happened.Donny harasses game warden Stacey Cole, an Army veteran with PTSD, outside Frances' diner. Stacey pistol-whips Donny in his face, which results in her suspension.Gary, a poacher working for WEC, parks on the reservation to drink beer with his girlfriend Jessica. Gary complains of a foul smell while a blackbird circles overhead. The invisible entity suddenly kills Gary. Betty and Andy are stunned at the similarities between Gary and Beth's unusual deaths.Because Stacey is an expert tracker, Betty deputizes her to help with the search for whatever is stalking their reservation. Stacey enlists additional help from her uncle Carson Stonefeather, who is a respected tribal elder.The invisible entity attacks Carson while he and Stacey hunt for it. Stacey rushes Carson to the hospital. Andy dismissively speculates that drug addiction or mass hysteria is responsible for what victims believe is happening. Betty defends her people as Stacey insists it was Kharis who attacked them. Carson cryptically asks, "Where is her heart?"Betty's online research reveals that Kharis was protesting against the tribal council for selling a mining license to WEC without proper approval. Additional research also connects Carson and Frances, the latter of whom appropriated native culture despite having a different heritage. Betty asks her 14-year-old nephew Ben, whom she raises, to see video interviews of Kharis and Carson he recorded for a class project. Carson's interview implies he betrayed the reservation by allying with WEC on the profitable mining operation.Betty discovers Kharis' body is missing. Betty confronts Frances, who only says that Betty should ask Mary Lynne what happened to her daughter's body. Betty then shows Stacey that her research revealed Kharis only attacked people affiliated with WEC, including Carson.Andy arrests Donny for carelessly shooting an old woman he thought was the unknown entity. Frances tells Andy that Donny tried to date rape her on the night Kharis died. Although drugged at the time, Frances remembers being in Donny's truck when he chased down and ran over Kharis.Ben notices a blackbird circling overhead while practicing hockey with a friend. Ben later calls his aunt to tell her he is going to apply for an internship with WEC. Betty warns Ben to return home immediately. Kharis suddenly attacks the boy. Ben furiously pedals his bike back to the house.Betty and Stacey rush to the house to protect Ben. Both women get into a violent confrontation with Kharis.Swayed by a heart-to-heart conversation she had earlier with Stacey, Mary Lynne tearfully throws the heart from her daughter's corpse into a fire. At the same time, Kharis drops to the ground outside Betty's house. Stacey hacks off the vengeful ghost's head.Andy arrives at Betty's house. Stacey, Betty, and Ben all lie about what really happened.While watching the heart burn together, Mary Lynne tells Frances there is one more thing Kharis must do before finally resting. Handcuffed in the back of Andy's patrol car at Betty's house, Donny detects a strange odor. Kharis suddenly attacks him.

Don't Say Its Name

Don't Say Its Name (2021)

Óscar Jaenada

Rodolfo Sancho

Paul Naschy

Ignacio García-Bustelo

Luisa Llorente (Silvia Abascal) necesita hacer una taxación de todo lo que pueda haber de valor dentro de la finca Valdemar. Por más de siglo y medio, ha permanecido completamente abandonada. La empresa inimobiliaria que lleva la taxación había enviado a otro taxador anteriormente, pero este ha desaparecido con sospechas de que robo y desfalco.Nadie espera a Luisa cuando ésta llega, sin embargo un jardinero le abre la puerta. Ella entra en la casa y empieza a tasar y a hacer fotos, y sin ni siquiera darse cuenta, graba a un espíritu a través del objetivo de la cámara. Sube a un ático abuardillado que primero está cerrado y después abierto. El mal olor le lleva a ver el cadáver en descomposición del Gordo. En ese momento aparece el Engendro (José Torija), una especie de momia, que la ataca. Se mete en un antiguo baúl para despistarlo, pero el teléfono móvil le suena en ese momento y el Engendro la ataca. El jardinero le dice que salga por la leonera, y ella lo consigue. El jardinero y su compañero la llevan a su casa desmayada, y la encierran en una habitación con pinta de antigua y que parece una cárcel.Maximilian (Eusebio Poncela), el dueño de la inmobiliaria, llama a Nicolás Tremel (Óscar Jaenada) y a la directora de la fundación Valdemar, la doctora Cerviá (Ana Risueño) para que encuentren a Luisa, ya que su madre se está poniendo nerviosa cuando no da contactado con ella. Los otros dos trabajadores de la inmobiliaria, Santiago y Ana (Santi Prego y Norma Ruiz) van a salir hacia la finca también para intentar encontrar a Luisa. Durante el viaje en tren, Cerviá le cuenta a Nicolás la historia de la finca Valdemar.Lázaro y Leonor Valdemar eran un matrimonio feliz. Ella regentaba un orfanato privado y él se dedicaba a la fotografía. Lázaro Valdemar (Daniele Liotti) consigue acceder a la alta sociedad cuando decide llevar a cabo una estafa y prometer a gente con muchos posibles una foto con el espíritu de sus allegados muertos. Leonor Valdemar (Laia Marull) se alegra de ese dinero extra pues quieren adoptar un niño y necesitan mucho dinero para ello. Los médicos le han aconsejado que no se quede embarazada de momento, pero ella quiere intentarlo de todas todas.El periodista Garbea (Jimmy Barnatán) hace chantaje a Lázaro, pues ha descubierto el truco detrás de los supuestos contactos supernaturales. Como Lázaro decide no pagar, el periodista denuncia el caso en primera página. Lázaro es detenido a los dos días. Leonor intenta seguir cuidando de los críos. El caso se complica y una testigo aparece. Lázaro rechaza un abogado, pero las cosas se le ponen mal. De repente, aparece Aleister Crowley (Francisco Maestre). Éste contrata a una prostituta y amaña las cosas para que parezca que Garbea intentaba amañar todo el asunto en contra de Lázaro. Lázaro es liberado y la reputación del periodista es destruida.De regreso a casa, Lázaro se entera de que su mujer está embarazada. Cuando llega a casa, Leonor está jugando con los huérfanos acompañado por una nani, (Soraya Padrao). Después de alegrarse de la llegada de su marido, Leonor sufre un aborto a resueltas del cual no va a poner quedarse embarazada nunca más. Durante 6 meses, Lázaro cuida de ella.Crowley aparece de nuevo. Las fotos muestran que sí hubo contactos espirituales durante las seances, aunque Lázaro estaba tan pendiente de hacer sus trucos y sacar dinero que no se había percatado de ello. Crowley quiere abrir un portal con el otro mundo durante el eclipse total de luna que va a suceder después de 86 años, y quiere que Lázaro esté presente cuando eso suceda. Ese mismo sábado Leonor tiene que llevar a varios niños a conocer a sus padres adoptivos por primera vez en la estación de trenes, por lo que se enfada muchísimo con su marido, ya que había contado con que los acompañase. Además, su amiga la condesa sufragista Beatriz (Ana Bullón) ha aconsejado a Leonor que no mantenga ningún contacto con Crowley, ya que es un hombre peligroso. Aún así, Lázaro no quiere echarse atrás. Alisteir lo necesita porque necesita alguien con mucha experiencia para lidear la sesión espiritista.Leonor y la nani se van a la estación con los niños. Crowley aparece con varias personas para la sesión espiritista: el futuro autor de Drácula Bram Stoker (Lino Braxe), el personaje de varias novelas de Lovecraft Lizzie Borden (Vanessa Suárez), el compositor italiano Fuchini (Lucas Trapaza), Belle Gunnes (Laura Toledo). Cada uno de ellos quiere algo: éxito en los negocios, inspiración, conocimieno, Lázaro va a pedir una solución al problema de Leonor, etc... El mayordomo Jervás (Paul Naschy) observa inquieto todos estos hechos, y hace un comentario a su empleador en que le pregunta si está seguro de lo que está haciendo.La sesión empieza. Crowley hace que Belle se quite un crucifijo que lleva colgado del cuello. Crowley ha escrito en un pergamino todas las peticiones. El pergamino flota en el aire y un portal con el otro mundo se abre. Lázaro se desmaya, y una presencia espiritual se cuela en la habitación. En medio del pánico, el engendro se escapa, mata a uno de los asistentes, sale por la ventana y se incrusta en uno de los cuerpos que hay en el cementerio cercano. En el caos se prende fuego a la casa y Lázaro queda muy malherido. Crowley y los demás supervivientes salen corriendo, y es Jervás con otros criados quienes tienen que arrastrar a Lázaro fuera de la habitación.Avisan a Leonor del incendio de la casa, y ella regresa sola al galope, mientras se encuentra a los coches de caballos de los que están huyendo. Al llegar a casa, el Engendro se comunica con ella mentalmente. Los bomberos acaban de apagar el fuego.De regreso al siglo 21, Luisa se despierta en esa extraña habitación y se siente encerrada en ella.Por lo que parece, esto no es una película, sino una miniserie, y al final aparecen imágenes de la segunda parte.

The Valdemar Legacy

The Valdemar Legacy (2010)

Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson

Svandis Dora Einarsdottir

Kjartan Ragnarsson

Sigríður María Egilsdóttir

Kolbeinn loves Solveig and Solveig loves Kolbeinn but Kolbeinn is in love with his prized possession and darling, the mare Grána and Grána is obsessed with the stallion Brúnn. Spring is coming and the whole community is following the story. This cannot end well. Vernhardur is in love with vodka and the horse Jarpur loves Vernhardur, his master. Aboard a Russian trawler is a mate by the name of Gengis who doesn't have vodka but loves horses like Jarpur. This not going to end well. Grimur has a passion for ancient horse roads but Egill admires barbed wire fences. Grimur owns a horse and a pair of pincers and Egill owns a tractor. This cannot end well. Johanna loves Raudka, her mare, but Raudka is in love with freedom. On the heath by an old summer cottage lies an injured old man. This could have a happy ending. Juan Camillo loves life and nature and is seeking God in the Icelandic highlands but the horse Old Piebald is tired and longs for rest. How will this end? Well, it all ends in the autumn when the horses are herded and men and horses become one great strand of excitement. The autumn round-up of the horses unifies theme, place, objects, time and characters into an ensemble film.—FSF

Of Horses and Men

Of Horses and Men (2013)

Monique Yates Jr.

Ron Althoff

Jeremy Lynn

Rashia Whitlock

Introducing Jodea is a story about a terrible actress, whose fate changes when she gets into a car accident with a famous movie director. After a disastrous audition, he agrees to teach her to act with hilariously funny results.

Introducing Jodea

Introducing Jodea (2021)

Bernie Sanders

Pete Buttigieg

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Art Cullen

Art Cullen and his family and colleagues at Iowa's Storm Lake Times, fight-at the local level-for the survival of their biweekly small-town newspaper

Storm Lake

Storm Lake (2021)

Giuseppe Futia

Diego Giangrasso

Angelica Giusto

Giorgio Serra

Marta and Arturo broke up. Marta is now involved in a relationship with Gabriele, but, out of pure jealousy, he makes a big mistake. While everything seems to be going wrong, an unexpected news arrives: there's a compatible donor for Marta

Still Out of My League

Still Out of My League (2021)

Will Lyman

Meara Mahoney-Gross

Ryan Cooper

Abigail Klein

The story of Courtney Bennett, a former Olympic skating hopeful who teaches skating classes and runs the city's outdoor public skating oval in the Common behind City Hall. When Mayor Greenwood announces the imminent closing of the skating oval, Courtney faces off with former NHL hockey player Noah Tremblay, a single dad who runs the new indoor skating center, to try to save the public rink and the Christmas Carnival she hosts on the Common each Holiday season. Courtney and Noah bond over his daughter Grace who joins Courtney's skating class and Courtney discovers a secret connection between Noah and the Mayor that could be the Mayor's soft spot. Together Courtney and Noah devise a plan to keep the skating oval open and fall in love along the way.—Happy_Evil_Dude

Christmas on Ice

Christmas on Ice (2020)

Brande Roderick

Jon Lovitz

Dominic Bagarozzi

Kenny Ray Powell

It's Christmastime and after having her "Happily Ever After" wrecked by an unfair divorce, Amanda (BRANDE RODERICK) must come up with a plan to secure her 10 year old son Daniel's future, before it's too late. During the Annual California Wine Country Christmas Derby, Amanda meets two misfits, down on their luck, to execute her plan. With the help of a talking Horse named Ace and his racehorse friends, Amanda finds her way to the miracle of a very different "Happily Ever After".

Ace & the Christmas Miracle

Ace & the Christmas Miracle (2021)

Emy Coligado

Kyle Gallner

Jere Burns

Bill Sage

A woman returns to her estranged family, and reconnects with a former lover. When the robbery they plan goes awry, she must choose between abandoning her family again or taking responsibility for the chaos she's created.

The Catch

The Catch (2020)

Pedro Damián

Xavier Marc

Margarito Luna

Rodrigo Puebla

The film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel about the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality.

Island of Lost Souls

Island of Lost Souls (1974)

Denzel Washington

Wendell Pierce

Anderson Cooper

Bill Russell

In a British documentary, Gordon Parks is described as the only Negro staff photographer at LIFE magazine. He is also a composer, an author, and film director. As a black man, Parks believes he has to be more productive and talented than his white counterparts because if ever pitted against them, he must prove to be too valuable to ever consider being terminated.
Devin Allen is a photographer who takes pictures of the Black Lives Matter protests and riots in Baltimore. He recalls going to Barnes and Noble and seeing the work of Gordon Parks illustrating gang life in Harlem. Allen realized how powerful a picture was in telling a story. Allen's career took off in 2015 when Freddie Gray was killed by police. At the uprising at Camden Yards, Allen snapped a photo which became the cover of TIME magazine which jump started his career.
Gordon Parks said he might have chosen the gun or knife as his weapon, but it was the camera where he could express his view of the injustice of racism and the downtrodden in America. Parks grew up in the quintessential black experience of the time in the South. In Kansas, he was proximate to lynching and racial terrorism. He discovered he had to be two people: one personality around white folks and another side he only shared with his family. When at least four friends of Gordon's were killed, Gordon's mother felt Kansas was no longer a safe place Gordon got a job as a waiter in the dining car of a train and started to tour the country. It was hardly glamorous, with Gordon often experiencing poverty, drunks, and addiction in the places he was able to stay.
Gordon learned photographer from training manuals. His studio was the kitchen of his home and his lights were made from tin cans. Parks took an interest in photographing the value, interest, and art in the lives of ordinary black people and was to sell these images to the newspapers. In 1942, Parks receives a fellowship to be the photographer for the Farm Security Administration in Washington, D.C. The FSA was resetting people who had lost their farms in the Dustbowl. They hired photographers and film makers to document what they were doing. Parks was mentored by Roy Stryker who was in charge of the documentation effort. During this time, Parks did a series of photos of a colored cleaning woman named Ellen Watson who worked at their offices. His work seemed to say that here was a person who was giving her all for a country that did not recognize her as a complete person. Parks continued to work with Watson photographing her in her home and community. A famous photo shows four generations of her family within the context of a very small room on her apartment in a very sophisticated way.
Latoya Ruby Frazier is inspired by Parks to attempt to change that which she does not approve of in the world by exposing it with the lens of the camera. In 2016, Frazier is commissioned by Elle magazine to document the Flint Water crisis. It was during this time, Frazier met Shea Cobb and her daughter Zion. Shea was at the point of making the decision to either stay in Flint or return to where her father lived in Mississippi where he said the water would not kill them. Her photo essay continued four years later in Mississippi continuing the story of the Flint family. Gordon taught Frazier to be present, talk with, and empathize with her subjects. Frazier also claimed she was interested in the collaborations Parks did with Ralph Ellison in the early 1940's. Parks and Ellison did two such collaborations, one about the psychiatric needs in Harlem and another depicting scenes from Ellison's novel, "The Invisible Man". Taking some of these photographs as a portfolio, Parks approached LIFE magazine who paid him $500 for a story on a Harlem gang leader.
Starting from a broad approach, Parks contacted local police to find such a gang leader. The police knew several but did not believe Parks would be allowed to photograph them. In one such precinct, Gordon met Red Jackson, a notorious street gang leader. He spent an extended time with Red. Eventually, he photographed Red in his everyday life with his family. He also photographed his gang and fights they would have. At one point, Parks photographed one of Red's gang who was killed and Red's vow of revenge.
Jamel Shabazz photographs kids in Brooklyn. Shabazz grew up as a victim to the streets until he found the weapon of the 35 mm camera. Shabazz worked in the department of corrections for 20 years. When he was placed at Rikers Island, he thought of it as his new assignment. With crack proliferation on the street, he able to photograph the results of the epidemic, the brutality inside the prison, and lack of rehabilitation. Once back on the streets, Shabazz would meet young people and seek to build them up telling them he saw greatness in them that he wanted to photograph. He did not want them to end up in a place like Rikers Island.
With the success of the Harlem Gang Leader project, LIFE magazine hired Gordon Parks as its first African American photographer. By the mid 1950's Parks was well established in the industry. In 1956, Gordon is sent to Alabama to capture images of segregated life in the Jim Crow south. Just months before, Emmett Till was lynched and murdered in an act of racial hatred in Mississippi. Jet magazine published the photos of Till's ravaged body and drew attention to the persecution of blacks in the South. In his pictorial, Parks used color photography to show in stark terms the different lives of blacks and whites in Alabama. He focused on segregated entrances and facilities for blacks and whites, expressing the longing, discomfort and distraction it caused the African Americans of that day.
Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma, learned about the intimacy that Gordon created between the camera and the subject that brought the audience in. DuVernay says that actors have the same goal, to draw an audience into the way the actor is being and feeling in the moments portrayed.
The breadth of Gordon Parks work is far broader than the social justice movement. Parks did everything from photojournalism to portraits to abstraction to fashion. The juxtaposition of his work can be fascinating. One subject was Gloria Vanderbilt, among the wealthiest women of her time. Vanderbilt said Gordon was the first African American person she ever became friends with. Despite the different upbringing, they connected as artists as Vanderbilt was a playactor and also a fashion designer.
Parks, as a photographer gained respect to move in other's spaces without interfering with what was going on. In 1957, Parks was assigned to do an expose on the crime crisis in America. He presented crime as an ambiguity. He also showed the humanity around crime. There were also photos of police that portrayed how blacks in the north perceived police as menacing and imposing of law and order.
Bryan Stevenson uses Park's work in The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, to create a narrative in their effort to change hearts and minds to eliminate prejudice and racial injustice. The black experience illustrated in LIFE magazine was often set against the magazine's advertising which showed white happy carefree Americans. The contrast was eye opening to the magazine's readers.
In 1963, Gordon Parks was sent as the uniquely qualified black photographer on the staff of LIFE magazine to photograph the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X was Parks' initial contact on the story. Together, they had to seek the permission of Elijah Muhammad to continue. The Muslim leader was skeptical of someone working for "the white devils". Parks spent several months on the assignment and got unprecedented access to the religion. He was impressed with the conformity and order of the mosques. Gordon saw them training German Shepherd guard dogs. He met families who would renounce their children over their religion. Malcolm X requested the Parks fly out to Los Angeles when Ronald Stokes was killed in a police shooting. Parks put himself in the line of fire to stay close to the Nation of Islam leadership. From this he earned the respect of Malcolm X who referred to him as "brother". The story in LIFE was written in a rather inflammatory way. Parks had his own text in the coverage where he became an activist by pointing out the range of concerns of the brotherhood are broader to the entire black community in America.
Spike Lee used photographs taken during this period when he recreated the eulogy delivered for Malcolm X. Lee understood from Parks, the need to establish trust with a subject. When Lee films a documentary, he is required to ask subjects to open up about very painful incidents in their lives. One such film was "4 Little Girls" which discusses the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham.
Parks' work documents many of the well-known personalities prominent in the Civil Rights Movement in the second half of the 20th Century when blacks left their complacency and demanded justice. Parks, however, was reluctant to take on the Muhammed Ali story. At the time, Ali had converted to Muslim, opposed the Vietnam War, and was riled by the press. Parks began to understand that Ali's art was simply his hands and his attitude. In the photos of Ali, Devin Allen learned that clarity is not always the goal of the photo. In a blur, emotion can be expressed. Allen has focused on sports in Baltimore in recent times. Following Parks lead, Allen has imbedded himself in Coach Calvin's boxing gym and has been able to capture the humanity of Calvin and the kids he trains to box.
Merv Griffin interviewed Gordon Parks after he introduced the world to Flavio, an impoverished boy from Brazil that put a face on the problem of poverty in Latin America. The photos inspired donations that brought Flavio to America and saved his life from his asthmatic condition. By 1969, Gordon Parks had achieved a celebrity status which somewhat compromised his ability to be just a somewhat anonymous black man taking pictures with his camera. Parks, however, was able to speak the language of celebrity on a series of talk shows he appeared on advocating for the causes he supported.
Parks moved on to film, which he saw as an even more powerful media to reach even greater numbers of people. He directed a movie drawn from his novel, "The Learning Tree", which portrayed some elements of his life growing up as a young Negro in Kansas. It was the first major studio movie directed by an African American. He followed this effort up with Shaft, working with Isaac Hayes to conceptualize the familiar theme song. Shaft, in many ways, personified the Black Power movement that was going on in that era. John Shaft was a man who moved freely among the boroughs of New York, from the radicals, to the gangsters to the police, just as Parks did during his career. Richard Roundtree, who played John Shaft, even realized his wardrobe for the character was Gordon Parks' selections supplied by his tailor.
Parks directing career, however, was short lived. Blaxploitation movies created revenue but had repetitive plots that eventually lost their audience. Parks was never considered for another type of movie by Hollywood producers. He blamed the color of his skin. Parks never achieved the greatness or the messaging in film as he had hoped. In later life, Parks had hoped to compose more and write more, but realized he was running out of time. He never stopped working.
In 1998, XXL magazine wanted to recreate "A Great Day in Harlem" photo which featured jazz artists some 40 years early. In 1998, the photo would feature some of the greatest artist in hip hop with many rappers present. After much convincing, Parks finally agreed to be the photographer which legitimized the hip hop genre.
Parks left a timeless collection of images which serve as models and inspiration for today's modern black photographers. They feel inspired to use the camera as a powerful weapon to create narratives, change perceptions, capture the critical moments in the social justice movement, and change the world.

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

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At a party, one student gets picked on and ends up getting thrown into a pool that has no water in it. Frank, a geek, retrieves a brain from his father's lab and agrees to let the boy have it in exchange for a chance to hang with the popular crowd. The brain, it turns out, originally belonged to a serial killer. As the teen monster goes haywire, popular Macy becomes romantically involved with former geek Frank.—Anonymous

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