ImageNation Trailer

Enjoy the Imagenation short trailer. A brief description of the accomplishments, plans, and goals of our unique company.

The most influential films of all time?

On April 13, 2009 CNN post:

Turner Classic Movies (like CNN, a division of Time Warner) is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month, and in honor of the occasion, the network has selected the 15 most influential films of all time.

They are: “The Birth of a Nation” (1915); “Battleship Potemkin” (1925); “Metropolis” (1927); “42nd Street” (1933); “It Happened One Night” (1934); “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937); “Gone With the Wind” (1939); “Stagecoach” (1939); “Citizen Kane” (1941); “Bicycle Thieves” (1947); “Rashomon” (1950); “The Searchers” (1956); “Breathless” (1959); “Psycho” (1960); and “Star Wars” (1977).

Well I’m not surprised films by and about Black people did NOT make the list. It is interesting to note….

Killer of Sheep, a movie by director Charles Burnett was declared a “national treasure” In 1990 by Library of Congress and placed it among the first 50 films entered in the National Film Registry for its historical significance. In 2002, the National Society of Film Critics selected the film as one of the 100 Essential Films of all time.

In 1999, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, one of three films to do so in its first year of eligibility.

Is the United States Library of Congress wrong?  Or dose Ted Turner not see theses and other Black films relevant? See why ImageNation is needed? Burn Hollywood Burn. What do you think?

ImageNation and Black Indie Cinema in Harlem

The marketing of Black films like Lumumba, Killer of Sheep and Trouble the Water helped to prepared ImageNation with it's plans to open the nation's only indie cinema dedicated to Black and Brown films.  http://cityroom/blogs.nytimes.com/2009/jazz-museum-and-cinema-arechosen-for-harlem-site/   

Is it important to have a indie cinema in the heart of Harlem that is dedicated to Black and Brown films? Tell us what you think...