Tag: Film
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At the age of 36 the African American filmmaker and producer from Oakland, California directed the world’s first black African-based Marvel movies featuring the best of black talent for its cast. From the first film Black Panther to the Wakanda Forever sequel, Ryan Coogler has gifted the world with fictional imaginations of a self-sufficient African…
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A platform dedicated to connecting music and art lovers, We Are Soul has been a space for lovers of poetry, lo-fi, neo soul and R&B music since their beginnings in 2015.
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Kemi Anna and Safeen James met in 2021 while working as Content Producers at a social media agency ‘OK COOL’ and after finding common ground in their love for their Nigerian heritage and filmmaking, they became friends which later developed into creative partners. Since then they’ve both become freelancers and have supported each other on…
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This October, GUAP had the great privilege of meeting Ebinehita Iyere’s Milk Honey Bees, young girls from across London who have come together to leave a literary legacy, narrating and documenting the real life experiences of Black Girlhood, Unfiltered.
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Raphael Boamah-Asare continues to visually command attention with his narrative realism cinematography in this ode to black manhood in the UK. In his latest piece, Faith Trade, Boamah-Asare dives into the world of cultural and societal imbalances that set black boys and men on the path to being a modern slaves.
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Emerging Director, Destinie presents ‘A Kind of Woman’, her ode to plus-sized Black Women in Fashion
Courageous, confident, and purely unstoppable; the ‘Luxurious Woman’ finds herself at the peak of her potential. With the world at her feet, she takes extravagance to new heights which appears nonsensical to the everyday person.
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We’re living in a time of firsts. Many of the faces that we see on our screens are making huge strides to represent their communities, so do we still need representation in the same way we used to?
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Don’t have any plans for Valentine’s Day? Here are my top 10 films centering Black Love. When it comes to depictions of Black love stories in film & tv, we are still very new to the game. Many cinephiles will point out the rise of Black romance movies came in the 1990s. In this decade,…
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GUAP speaks to photographer and filmmaker Amarachi Nwosu on her debut feature film; The Ones Who Keep Walking. Amarachi Nwosu is a photographer, filmmaker and director who over the years has lived and travelled all over the world to tell the stories of Black people across the diaspora. The young visionary who earned herself a spot…
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![What it’s like working in the film industry with [@MrWalker_] & [@VisualsbyLolly] in collab with @AdobeUK](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_0724.jpg)
Build a community… Iron sharpens Iron… Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are all friends. If Martin can’t do a job he’ll call Spike Lee or George. We need to have that in our communities. Cornelius Walker The film industry can be an incredibly intimidating space to enter, especially for a young…