This episode Ed Adams wraps up the year with a discussion about the phenomenal year in film for people of color with AAFCA co-founders Gil Robertson and Shawn Edwards. We also breakdown the winners of the 10th annual AAFCA Awards celebrating the best performances and films of the year.
The AAFCA Awards gala will take place on Wednesday, February 6th at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles. You can find the complete list of winners on the AAFCA website.
Links:
AAFCA Awards press release and complete list:
http://www.aafca.com/pr-top-ten-2018
CNBC: “Record number of black directors among 2018’s top films, earning $1.6 billion at the box office”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/04/record-number-of-black-directors-among-2018s-top-films.html
USC Annenberg Report: Inclusion in the director’s chair: Gender, race, and age of directors across 1,200 top films from 2007 to 2018
http://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/inclusion-in-the-directors-chair-2019.pdf
Full list of Top Facebook Watch Original Shows (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distributed_by_Facebook_Watch