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That personal, emotional investment may be what audiences are responding to when they see it. Says producer Warrington Hudlin: "Look at The Preacher's Wife: two big stars, but the film did not capture the right flavor. They spent a lot of money but did not capture the nuances of the black community...
...chaotic -- garbage piling up, houses left uncleaned, meals uncooked -- that the whites plead for the blacks to come back. Thirty years later, racial satire has taken a bleaker turn. In Space Traders -- one of three episodes of Cosmic Slop, an HBO anthology series from Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (who wrote and directed the film House Party) -- aliens arrive on earth with a modest proposal for the U.S. government: We'll give you unlimited energy and enough gold to pay off the national debt; all you have to do is give us your blacks. This time the white folks think...
...have been sponsoring student events and projects for social change since 1966. Funding Nair's project was part of Education for Action's long-standing effort to further the careers of social activist filmmakers. For example, in 1991 we showed films by Education for Action alumnae/alumni, including Nair, Reggie Hudlin '83 ("House Party") and Terry Rockefeller '72 ("Eyes on the Prize"). Our goal in bringing back alumnae/alumni whose careers began here at Education for Action is to encourage other Harvard/Radcliffe students following similar paths...
...natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that you should dilute, homogenize black comedy," says filmmaker Warrington Hudlin, who cast Lawrence in House Party and Boomerang. "His approach is just the opposite." In January Lawrence will release a comedy concert film...
Imagine a film with the legal smarts of a John Grisham novel and a sci-fi concept wilder than Deep Space Nine. Reginald and Warrington Hudlin, the filmmakers behind House Party and Boomerang, are in discussions with New York University law professor Derrick Bell about making a movie version of a short story in Bell's book Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Bell's story is a sharp commentary on the way the legal system mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost...