The strange fruit

Fiction, drama, directed by : Shay Riddick, cast : Joshua Lee Johnson, Jed Dustin, Michelle Perks, Brian Blu, Brittany Enos, USA, 8mn, (2016),

This short movie invokes the interpretation by Billie Holliday of the famous poem written and published in 1937 by Abel Meeropol. Billie Holliday sung with so much intensity the tragedies of the African - American people victims of the lynchings in the deep south to the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century. Today some young girls and boys have been killed by policemen and the justice has founded them not guilty in spite of the evidences. This short movie ask us a single question : does lynchings exist anymore ?

Black girl - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Drama directed by Ousmane Sembène, writing credits : Ousmane Sembène, cast (in credits order) : M'Bissine Thérèse Diop, Anne - Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sesse, Ibrahima Boy, Ber...

http://artetcinemas.over-blog.com/2015/07/black-girl.html

Sketch - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Drama, directed by : Stephen T. Barton, writing credits : Stephen T. Barton, cast (in credit order) : Kwesi Bookge, Kenya Brome, Anthony Chisholm, Tosa Danny, Joe Forhich, Loriana Izrailova, Zlatcko

http://artetcinemas.over-blog.com/2016/02/sketch.html

Jerico (the movie) - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Directed by Seckeita Taylor, writing credits (in alphabetical order) : Brandon Lewis, produced by : Stars Evans, Jeanette Ingram, Willie Ingram, Lesha Wanda Larkin, Brandon Lewis, Seckeita Lewis ...

http://artetcinemas.over-blog.com/2016/09/jerico-the-movie.html

Strange Fruit - Wikipédia

Strange Fruit (littéralement " fruit étrange ") est une chanson interprétée pour la première fois par Billie Holiday en 1939, au Café Society à New York. Ce poème écrit et publié en 1937 ...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit