Decoder Media

09/23/2021

We are eternally grateful for your example, Melvin Van Peebles. We stand in the light of your legacy. May you rest in peace.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/movies/melvin-van-peebles-dead.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1ZVUot4HkT5Xq2bSrWCCyLgIb59gdFMGO7bQChY3dF9ztb745iygzGqZs

A fertile creative force, he wrote fiction and musicals but is best known for a breakthrough movie that heralded the genre known as blaxploitation.

03/23/2021

Congratulations Keith McQuirter for winning the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in Documentary for "By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem"!!!

NAACP Image Awards

03/02/2021

FOX 5 NY's report on "By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem" that aired during Black History month and featured director Keith McQuirter. Check it out!

02/02/2021

Our docuseries "By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem" got nominated today for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in Documentary (Film and TV). Congrats to director Keith McQuirter and the entire Decoder Media and Significant Productions Teams!
https://variety.com/2021/tv/awards/2021-naacp-image-awards-nominations-1234898205/?fbclid=IwAR2TS5pfSrNoTeTSvrWExprU619mzOyy0h9yr99ch9FvojXf732RTh5XBCE

D-Nice, Viola Davis, Regina King, Trevor Noah and Tyler Perry are nominated for entertainer of the year at the 2021 NAACP Image Awards. The nominations were virtually announced Tuesday on the NAACP…

12/31/2020

12/16/2020

In episode 1 of the doc series "By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem", Martha Reeves and Gladys Knight share their first time performing at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

12/12/2020

Director and executive producer of the EPIX documentary series "By Whatever Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem", Keith McQuirter, is guest on the podcast "Brown & Black" about race and pop culture. McQuirter talks with hosts Jack Rico and Mike Sargent about the new series.

‎Show Brown & Black, Ep Director Keith McQuirter On Achieving Brown & Black Unity Through Music - Dec 12, 2020

12/08/2020

Filmmaker Keith McQuirter was a guest on the show Hear and Now with Rachel C. on Radio Free Brooklyn and they talked about “By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem”. Check it out in the link below.

with guest Keith McQuirter

12/07/2020

Legendary jazz percussionist Warren Smith in a recording studio in the 1960's.

12/07/2020

One of the fathers of Hip Hop, original members of the Young Lords and member of the Last Poets, Felipe Luciano on set in New York.

12/05/2020

Hip Hop artist CHIKA on set in Los Angeles.