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"Sometimes the only key to happiness is to spit 8 bars." Directed by Talibah Newman, who directed the HBO-acquired the lauded short Busted on Brigham Lane, the comedic Famous Farrah centers of Farrah Satrapi, a young woman who is bored of her job at a medical lab and who takes up rapping to spice up her life. The series' teaser was featured at the Brown, Black & Digital event held at Mist (My Image Studios) in Harlem on May 15th.   Famous Farrah is a clever, but not too cool, daffy, but not slapstick spoof on the hip-hop game. As her 26th birthday approaches, Farrah Satrapi (Kathreen Khavari) realizes that she's bored with her monotonous, sterile life in the lab. After John...

Executive producers Jay-z, Dream Hampton, and Wyatt Cenac present Terence Nance's explosively creative debut feature, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, the film documents the relationship between Terence (Terence Nance) and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. Watch as Terence discovers more about Najja in our exclusive clip. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty opens in New York today, followed by a wider roll out in May.

An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty - Exclusive Najja

Utilizing a tapestry of live action and multiple styles of animation, the film blurs the line between narrative, documentary, and experimental film as it explores the fantasies, emotions, and memories that race through Terence's mind as he examines and re-examines a singular moment in time.

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty was released April 26th, 2013 and stars Alisa Becher,...

Talibah Newman, a filmmaker we've profiled previously on the site for her short film Busted on Brigham Lane, is now looking to complete her next project, a whimsical short called Sweet Honey Chile: Sweet Honey Chile’ is a film about a young boy who is larger than life, but is trapped within the confines of an absurd, suffocating world weighed down by the trappings of poverty and a short fused, short-sighted mother. Honey is a child beyond his years in spirit who grows up overnight in order to become the man of the house. In the film, Honey is often accompanied and paralleled by a mystical friend, Mr. Jolene, who has triumphed in the face of adversity. Honey’s...

Congrats to Shaka King and Talibah Newman - two filmmakers whose work we've profiled here on S&A in the recent past. Both are 2012 Rooftop Films fund grantees for Newlyweeds (King's feature film - photo above) and Sweet Honey Chile’ (Newman's short film). The details (along with the rest of this year's winners) follow via press release below: (New York, NY) September 18, 2012: Rooftop Films announces 2012 Filmmakers’ Fund grantees with 12 grants, including a new $10,000 cash award from At&T, plus grants from Dctv, Eastern Effects, Edgeworx Studios and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. Rooftop Films not only exhibits films from around...

For their 5th annual edition, the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is heating up by returning to the summer after being a winter event for the past three years. The fest will run on Aug. 17-19 with a killer lineup of films from all over the world — most of which probably will not be able to be seen in Minnesota except at this 3-day event.

Plus, there are two programming blocks of short films all made by local filmmakers, including Pam Colby’s Fertile Ashes, Ryan Becken’s Buffalo Shampoo, Janelle Sorenson & Melany Joy Beck’s Bring It 2 Peter, Jl Sosa’s Some of Angela and more.

The feature films screening this year cover an extremely diverse swath of subject matter, from every day people’s murder fantasies fulfilled — cinematically, at least — in Michal Koskowski’s German documentary Zero Killed; a tattoo comes to live to torment its wearer in...