Month: August 2020

Ladj Ly is a French director and screenwriter whose parents are Malian immigrants. His first feature length film, Les Misérables, won a Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, which marked France’s first submission of a film by a Black filmmaker. The film …

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John Boyega is a British-Nigerian actor best known for his role as Finn in the Star Wars franchise, as well as his role in the film Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. He grew up in the Peckham district of London as the son of Nigerian immigrants; his …

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