EOS World Fund

04/30/2023

Gina and the Belafonte family would like to acknowledge the outpouring of support that we’ve received over the last few days. We appreciate your words of encouragement and love as we navigate these difficult times.

Over the coming days we will have more to share, but for now please support Sankofa.org as we work to continue the vision and legacy of our founder and father. If you are interested in making a charitable financial contribution, please go to our website.

With love and light,

Team Sankofa - The Belafonte Legacy Foundation

04/30/2023

Hooray for this extraordinary woman.

Yvonne Cagle - April 24, 1959
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Physician, professor, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, and NASA Astronaut. Cagle joined NASA as an astronaut in 1996. She is one of six African American female astronauts.

04/30/2023

Yes well said Questlove.
Harry Belafonte, a true Icon.🕊️💫

04/29/2023

Join us on May 10th at the British Film Institute & see Nina Menkes thrilling BRAINWASHED!

11/07/2022

02/09/2022

See Nina Menkes’ “Brainwashed”

02/01/2022

“And the Premieres section, which includes 20 titles across both narrative and documentary, is stuffed with buzzy titles still in search of homes, including “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul,” “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick,” Phyllis Nagy’s “Call Jane,” Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allyne’s “Am I OK?,” And the Premieres section, which includes 20 titles across both narrative and documentary, is stuffed with buzzy titles still in search of homes, including “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul,” “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick,” Phyllis Nagy’s “Call Jane,” Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allyne’s “Am I OK?,”

Nina Menkes’ “Brainwashed,” !!!!!!!!!!

and Eva Longoria Bastón’s “La Guerra Civil.” That’s where the festival’s prime features are programmed, and this year’s female-forward lineup is among its most impressive in years. and Eva Longoria Bastón’s “La Guerra Civil.” That’s where the festival’s prime features are programmed, and this year’s female-forward lineup is among its most impressive in years.”

For the first time, female filmmakers directed the majority of both the fest’s features and competition titles. But that’s not the only reasons why this year has felt so special.

02/01/2022

We are contenders! That is, we women are Dope! Sick! Badass!

Film / By Kate Erbland and Eric Kohn Memo to Distributors: Buy These Sundance 2022 Films Some of the best films of the festival are still looking for homes. Open your pocketbooks, buyers! Jan 31, 2022 12:00 pm /

02/01/2022

Eos World Fund is sooooooo proud of Nina Menkes and her call to action embodied in the lucid, clarifying BRAINWASHED. The film’s descriptions and examples of Hollywood’s most famous & praised movies illuminates how women have been diminished and rendered powerless to the point of physical, social & mental harm by the most powerful film industry in the world.

See it and you will be charged up to change the way you point the camera and design your next scenes dear filmmakers.

Sundance: “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” builds on Mendes’ “cinematic experience” lecture to unearth some uncomfortable truths, even if many of them feel half-baked.

08/01/2021

Hooray to “Al Garib” (The Stranger) & our poignant director invited for the official selection of the 78th Venice Film Festival in the Giornate Degli Autori. Ashraf Barhoum, Jiries Copti, Tony Copti, Dorothe, Ameer Fakher Eldin, and the rest of the incredible cast, crew, and Partners in bringing this beautiful, seminal story to the world.

07/19/2021

A great day with amazing women and uber photographer, Art Streiber, from Vanity Fair.

03/19/2021

03/11/2021

I had to repost these two awesome feministas when we were in London cheering on Nina Menkes’ “Queen of Diamonds.”

Nina Menkes & Laura Mulvey after seeing Nina’s “feminist masterpiece” QUEEN OF DIAMONDS.

03/11/2021

CONGRATS 🎉 to ’s :
Radha Blank & Regina King for their : 1st-Time Feature Film Noms! 🎬
: Please WATCH ’s & ’s &

Directors Guild of America Netflix Amazon Prime Video

03/01/2021

Best DirectHer

02/06/2021

Stream QUEEN OF DIAMONDS, Killing Floor, Guy Maddin, Ghost Dog, and More
ON The Criterion Channel in February 2021

-Feb 04, 2021
-Tmera Hepburn
-Criterion channel

ON CRITERION CHANNEL

Wednesday, February 24

Directed by Nina Menkes

Featuring a new introduction by the filmmaker

One of American independent cinema’s most sui generis voices, Nina Menkes doesn’t so much direct films as, in her own words, “conjure” them. Imbued with a trancelike power, her cinematic spells combine surrealist imagery that has been compared to David Lynch’s with the hypnotic formal rigor of Chantal Akerman to create a wholly original film language, through which she explores themes of alienation, violence, sexuality, and the search for a nonpatriarchal spirituality. Featuring the recently restored 1990s landmark Queen of Diamonds—a glimmering hallucination set on the margins of Las Vegas—these selections from Menkes’s potent body of work reveal an uncompromising artist who gives radical form to the raw materials of her unconscious.

Features

Queen of Diamonds, 1991

Phantom Love, 2007

Dissolution, 2010

01/27/2021

Please join us in recognizing more Women Directors for the 2020/2021 Awards season by DONATING today! We are all volunteers... all money raised goes directly to our mission!

One dollar, ten dollars, and elbow grease are all welcome!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!❤️

Here’s the new MONEY POOL link:

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8wgcZw3dJY

01/27/2021

Officially: “Best DirectHER is a grassroots Women Director Advocacy group formed in 2018 by a group of Female DGA Directors as a response to the repeated **absence of Women nominated** for Director Awards. This year we are raising money to hire a Social Media and PR Firm to help us continue to build our media presence and amplify our mission of increasing the number of Women-Directed films and TV shows nominated for DGA Awards.

Please join us in recognizing more Women Directors for the 2020/2021 Awards season by DONATING today! We are all volunteers... all money raised goes directly to our mission!

One dollar, ten dollars, and elbow grease are all welcome!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!❤️

Here’s the new MONEY POOL link:

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8wgcZw3dJY

Best DirectHER is a grassroots Women Director advocacy group formed in 2018 by a group of Female DGA Directors as a response to the repeated absence of Women nominated for Director Awards. This year we are raising money to hire a Social Media and PR Firm to help us continue to build our media presen...

01/27/2021

I’m part of a group of 30 DGA Directors who have formed a group called Best DirectHer. It is our mission to increase the number of women-directed films nominated for the DGA Awards in two categories:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

This year, we are focusing our efforts on the DGA Awards and will expand our scope to more categories and more awards in the years to come. Our goal is to inspire DGA members to remember and consider these outstanding women directed films.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

PLEASE SUPPORT US by using and by sharing our posts featuring female directed movies. The more support we get, the larger impact we will have in helping create inclusivity in the Entertainment industry. Thank you!

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With gratitude,

BestDirectHer

08/12/2020

On January 30th, 2018 Vanity Fair highlights a group of fearless women finding a way to change an industry steeped in systemic misogyny. #

06/12/2020

“Race scholars use the term white supremacy to describe a sociopolitical economic system of domination based on racial categories that benefits those defined and perceived as White. This system of structural power privileges, centralizes, and elevates White people as a group. If, for example, we look at the racial breakdown of the people who control our institutions, we see telling numbers.

These numbers are not describing minor organizations. Nor are these institutions special-interest groups. The groups listed above are the most powerful in the country. These numbers are not a matter of “good people” versus “bad people.” They represent power and control by a racial group that is in the position to disseminate and protect its own self-image, worldview, and interests across the entire society.

One of the most potent ways white supremacy is disseminated is through media representations, which have a profound impact on how we see the world. Those who write and direct films are our cultural narrators; the stories they tell shape our worldviews. Given that the majority of white people live in racial isolation from people of color (and black people in particular) and have very few authentic cross-racial relationships, white people are deeply influenced by the racial messages in films. Consider one statistic from the preceding list: of the hundred top-grossing films worldwide in 2016, ninety-five were directed by white Americans (ninety-nine of them by men). That is an incredibly homogenous group of directors. Because these men are most likely at the top of the social hierarchy in terms of race, class, and gender, they are the least likely to have a wide variety of authentic egalitarian cross-racial relationships. Yet they are in the position to represent the racial “other.” Their representations of the “other” are thereby extremely narrow and problematic, and yet they are reinforced over and over. Further, these biased representations have been disseminated worldwide; while white supremacy originated in the West, it circulates globally.”

06/06/2020

05/28/2020

05/09/2020

Loving this artist’s images!

Another Slamdance Film Festival has come and gone, and with it, another winner of the CreativeFuture Innovation Award. This year’s winner, Polish filmmaker Barbara Rupik, has a primordial, ancient quality in her approach to visuals and narrative, despite still being a student at the National Fil...

04/18/2020

Border of Golan Heights.

03/31/2020

Zoom meeting reading screenplay green lit!

01/06/2020

Today is featuring and her feature film .
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About The Farewell:

In 2013, Lulu Wang was in Berlin editing her first film, when she received news that her grandmother in China was diagnosed with terminal cancer. THE FAREWELL is based on Lulu’s account of her relatives saying goodbye to their elderly matriarch under the pretense of a shotgun wedding.
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About Lulu Wang:

Lulu Wang wrote and directed THE FAREWELL which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and earned a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize. named Wang among its “Top Ten Directors To Watch in 2019”. The film was also nominated for Best Feature and Best Screenplay at the 2019 Gotham Independent Film Awards .

Lulu Wang’s is slated to write and executive produce ‘s TV series, THE EXPATRIATES. She will also direct several episodes.
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is available to watch for $4.99 on , , , and Google Play.
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**DGA MEMBERS** Please Watch and Consider Voting for Lulu Wang for: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film.
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12/29/2019

Today is featuring
and her award winning feature film .
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About Clemency:

Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on a prison warden who must confront her emotional demons as she prepares to execute another inmate. CLEMENCY stars ,, Wendell Pierce, , and Danielle Brooks .

About Chinonye Chukwu:

Chinonye Chukwu wrote and directed her debut feature film, CLEMENCY and is the first black woman to win the ’s Grand Jury Prize. She is a filmmaker, educator, and social justice advocate; who founded , a filmmaking collaborative that teaches and empowers incarcerated women to make their own short films. Chinonye’s next film is A TASTE OF POWER, based on the memoir by Elaine Brown, the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party.

CLEMENCY is released in Los Angeles and NY on December 27 and nationwide January 2020.
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**DGA MEMBERS** Please Watch and Consider Voting for Chinonye Chukwu for: Outstanding First Time Directorial Achievement in Feature Film.
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