Within Our Gates

In this episode our hosts take a different direction, they don't even introduce themselves, we find them in mid-conversation and from there touch myriad of topics such as how movies like The Photograph are just lame social mobility pieces for a small group of Black folks, the beauty of Black support, Spike Lee's Bamboozled, movies we're horrified that are coming out, the Oscar front runner Nomadland and how it caters to white liberal poverty tourism. Check it. We go in and take no prisoners while also having a lot of laughs.

This week we are honored to bring on the show Filmmaker Ephraim Asili whose new film The Inheritance is to be released soon. Ephraim and I talk about Black cinematic expression from a multitude of perspectives and have a frank conversation about what it means to be a Black Filmmaker taking a radical pathway in todays landscape. We also dive into his film The Inheritance, which is a MUST-see.

This week Adam and Mtume go further down the Americana Road, looking at "lost" 1970's film Joe, a film Mtume calls "a fascinating failure" as well as current films American Skin and One Night In Miami where we analyze the conversation around Americanness in movies. Adam also gives his keys to what Black Mainstream films must contain in order to be released.

Within Our Gates is BACK. This time with our new regular co-host Adam Thomas. This week we dive into the legacy of Cannon films and how their cinematic "cannon" think it gives evidence to how the white right-wing of today developed and our general xenophobic attitudes here in the U.S.

Within Our Gates is back! This week on the eve of the election we are here to talk about the 1972 Film Nation Time Directed by William Greaves which documents the National Black Political Convention in Gary. I'm joined by Rezizstans Nwa family member Adam Thomas (@TheHonorableAT) making his podcast debut (!) and we talk about the film and its parallels to today. We touch on the touchy subject of the "Black Political Agenda", figures like Ice Cube and Jesse Jackson and also how we recognize what a Black Film actually is.

Very excited about this episode. This week I have Filmmaker/Artist M. Asli Dukan on to talk about her work as a Black Leftist Filmmaker. We touch on a lot of subjects mostly framed around what is it like to be a Black Filmmaker with Left politics in today's climate.

This episode we are extremely happy to have first time guests Nina Monei (@wildfonts) and Keyma with us to talk about the Netflix film CUTIES. We touch on the discourse around it and talk about how Anti-Blackness has once again found its way into the cinema that is supposed to represent us.

Filmmaker and Producer Christopher Everett of Speller Street Films come through to talk about his film series Wilmington On Fire

Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire (@Pinnland_Empire) and Zebras of America (@ZebrasPod) drops by the Gates.

This week we have special guest Trevor Beaulieu of Champagne Sharks to talk about Melvin Van Peebles' under-appreciated classic 1970 film Watermelon Man.