Margot B performs "Symptoms of Love"
from her Live at the Hazlett album at BAM Café Live.
She really brought the house down.
You can also catch Margot on the HBO
series "Boardwalk Empire" as Daughter Maitland
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Janelle Monáe performs "Smile" at Global Cittzen Fest 2013
Janelle Monáe proved that talent reigned
supreme as she
donated her time to perform for a cause
at the Global Citizen
Festival 2013
in Central Park, New York City.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Indie Review welcomes Winsome Sinclair !
Set your reminders and tune in! See ya Saturday :)
Indie Review Radio – Hosted by Raychelle & C.Truth
12 pm to 1:30 pm
Call-in Number: (646) 478-5123
Tweet: @IndieRevue
Winsome Sinclair
One of the most sought after casting directors on the East
Coast, Winsome
Sinclair has collaborated with such directors as Steven
Spielberg, Spike Lee,
Oliver Stone and John Singleton, casting principals and
extras for the films
Amistad, Malcolm X, Waiting to Exhale, She Hate Me, Inside
Man, Too Fast Too
Furious, Black Snake Moan, Cadillac Records and Precious,
among others. Her
most recent projects include For Colored Girls, Violet &
Daisy and the upcoming
remake of the classic Sparkle. In addition to features,
Sinclair has also cast
projects for network television. Her firm, Winsome Sinclair
& Associates, with
offices in New York City, is celebrated for creating
valuable jobs for many
African-American and Latino actors. With over 20 years of
experience in film, this industry veteran sits on the board of directors of the
African-American Women In Cinema foundation. She is also a member of the New York Women In Film and Television. She has
also led the Star Project for the American Black Film Festival and
moderated symposiums and panel discussions for the prestigious film festival.
Sinclair is a co-founder and serves as producer for the
full-service production
company, Legacy Media Group. Her company founded the TV/Film
Production
Certificate Program at Medgar Evers College. The program,
presented by
Legacy Media in conjunction with Medgar Evers Personal
Development Institute
and affiliated with the Adult Continuing Education at Medgar
Evers College, gives
students hands-on training and preparation for a career in
film and television
production. Sinclair also serves as an instructor for the
first course of its kind at
the Brooklyn campus. Sinclair produced the laugh-out-loud
web series, Liza Out Loud. She recently wrapped production on the dramatic web series, Brooklyn
Rain, which was produced entirely by Legacy Media Group. She most recently
cast 2012 Sundance Official Selections Red Hook Summer directed by Spike Lee
and Slavery By Another Name directed by Sam Pollard.
Winsome Sinclair and Associates is currently casting a new
project for the new
network, REVOLT, launched by Sean "Diddy" Combs.
WSA has begun casting
Oscar-nominated director Sam Pollard's UNT AUGUST WILSON
PROJECT and
is also casting Jerry Lamothe's upcoming film THE PROMISE
KEEPER which is
gathering an impressive cast including Garcelle Beauvais, S.
Epatha Merkerson,
Jamie Hector and Nonso Anozie. Sinclair is also set to
produce the hip hop crime drama, Justice, written and directed by
filmmaker-to-watch, Joey Mhz. She is currently producing the British crime drama, FLOWERS DON’T GROW IN ENGLAND.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Indie Review welcomes Ericka Blount Danois !
Set your reminders and tune in! See ya Saturday :)
Indie Review Radio – Hosted by Raychelle & C.Truth
12 pm to 1:30 pm
Call-in Number: (646) 478-5123
Tweet: @IndieRevue
Ericka Blount Danois
Ericka Blount Danois, an award-winning journalist, writer,
editor, and professor began her career as a stringer at the Philadelphia
Tribune with a cover story on the king of Philadelphia International Records,
Kenny Gamble. Ericka graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Journalism and has worked as a staff writer, editor, freelancer, and stringer
for a number of publications including: Spin, The Washington Post, The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN The Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Heart
and Soul, Uptown, The City Sun, City Paper, Vibe, Wax Poetics, The Source, and
online publications such as AOL and Newsone.com. She teaches at the Philip
Merrill School of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She has interviewed cultural figures such as
Cuban President Fidel Castro, Andy Rooney, Ed Koch, Andre Harrell, Zane, and
Johnnie Cochran and film and television provocateurs such as David Simon, Ed
Burns, and Ernest Dickerson. She’s interviewed reformed criminals like “Little
Melvin Williams,” celebrity athletes like Patrick Ewing, Bernard Hopkins, Ryan
Howard, Oscar De La Hoya, Dominique Wilkins, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Caron
Butler, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things, like Jason Pipoly, who
swam the English Channel as a paraplegic adult, after failing to cross it as a
swimmer as an able-bodied child. She has covered race, culture, politics, and
music producing feature and cover stories on musical luminaries such as The
Roots, Tricky, Damien Marley, Nas, Olu Dara, Jay-Z, Quincy Jones, LL Cool J,
Rakim, Tupac, Earth, Wind & Fire, Anthony Hamilton, R. Kelly, Run DMC,
Horace Silver, De La Soul, The Fugees, Talib Kweli, Jennifer Hudson, Sweet
Honey in the Rock, Ann Nesby, Jackie McLean, and James Mtume, among others. Her
cover story on Earth, Wind and Fire was selected to appear in the annual
series, the book, “Best Music Writing of 2012,” with guest editor Questlove. She
has contributed essays to books, such as the “The Regional Guide to Hip Hop,”
where she focused on regional style, fashion, and lyrics of Queens born hip hop
artists. Her first book, “Love, Peace and Soooooouul!” The Behind the Scenes
Story of America’s Favorite Dance Show, will be published in 2013 by Backbeat
Books. As a journalist, she’s examined public and private school education, the
crime beat in Atlantic City and Brooklyn, covered rape trials of celebrities,
the plight of black farmers, health disparities in the black community, world
renowned architects, women in porn, boxing matches, restaurant food in exotic
locales, and birthday parties for DeShawn Stevenson and Gilbert Arenas. She has
won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, New Jersey newspapers,
and Deadline Scholarship club from Columbia University.
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