Movies: Blaxploitation cinema

This production was originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Performing Arts Festival of the State University of New York at Purchase. Leaving the lyrics in their original Italian, acclaimed American director Peter Sel...

The Guy from Harlem is the first blaxploitation film we’ve ever riffed! Why, you ask? To quote the temperamental yet ultimately quite sensitive gangster Harry De Bauld, a character you will grow to love as much as we do - “well, it’s...it’s kinda pe...

Set on a university campus in 1975, this film follows the lives of Q (a Black adoptee), her roommate Jam (the daughter of former Black Panthers), and Marcus (a student who has experienced the school’s discrimination firsthand) as they bond together t...

En route to an audition, aspiring actress Leila stops at a motel and hooks up with one of the locals. After swallowing a weed edible, she is flooded with paranoia and insecurity about her physical appearance as a transwoman. To make matters worse, ev...

When Johnny Boyles is falsely accused of murdering his ex-boss, he turns to the unstoppable attorney, Eva Taylor, to help him plea his case....

What Would You Do If Your Mother Was a Hooker?...

A masked assailant in an organized crime ring mutilates his victims with a straight razor....

Two Hustler cousins attempt to get over on an associate of theirs, but after the job they pulled goes wrong, the duo must leave their families and skip town....

Blaxploitation Matters is a bold and stylish web series that shines a spotlight on the greatest films of the Blaxploitation era—honoring the groundbreaking actors, visionary directors, and iconic stories that forever changed the face of Black cinema....

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