Black Women Directors
Danielle A. Scruggs, Coco's Corner, S.D.HayesA film and culture newsletter from the digital library Black Women Directors, featuring film news, reviews, opportunities, and upcoming events.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 97 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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The 15th annual Blackstar Fest is this August!
So proud to partner with BlackStar for their 15th annual film festival supporting cinema for liberation! We invite you to join us this summer for the four-day event, taking place from August 6-9 in downtown Philadelphia and online around th...
Grants and Opportunities
Name of Opportunity: 2026 Animation Co-op Grant
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What I Watched
New-to-Me
Is God Is
“Make your Daddy dead. Real dead.”
With that command from God (aka their mother), two twin sisters set out on an epic road trip to avenge the maiming and near-murder of their mother by a sadistic, abusive, and elu...
Black Women Directors Monthly June 2026
Filmmaker Olamma Oparah | Photo: provided
Notes from the Editor
It’s June! We’re halfway through 2026, can you believe? Plus, Friday was my birthday (I’ll be celebrating all month though! #geminiszn). I do have one wish1, and it’s that...
Rewind: an audio series
From 2021: That time I was fed up with Malcolm and Marie
A person who recently interviewed me said that she loved a review I wrote about the Netflix film Malcolm and Marie for The Triibe back in 2021, which prompted me to revisit it and re...
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Founder and curator of Black Women Directors, a digital library.
Just a girl who likes to yap about books and movies\ud83d\udc95
I frequently travel deep into the earth, right where her heart beats the hottest and there I speak with those of old.
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