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Informative and entertaining discussion and debate on all aspects of cinema, with emphasis on global black cinema. Primary Format : Unknown Also Listed as: City : BROOKLYN State/Province : NY Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of VOYAGER ON DEMAND Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of VOYAGER ON DEMAND Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of VOYAGER ON DEMAND Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. EPISODE35 - Dennis Dortch (A Good Day To Be Black & Sexy); Tambay's Lament - Filmmaker Dennis Dortch talks about his feature film, A GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK AND SEXY, a Sundance Film Festival selection, and an upcoming release from Magnolia Pictures. - Podcast going to once per month and other announcements. - Tambay laments on the state of things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE34 - Black Bloggers Roundtable Bloggers from theblackactor.com, invisible-cinema.blogspot.com, and http://qadree.com joined me in discussing various hot topics within the realm of black cinema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE33 - Oscar Nominees; Sundance Recap; 2008 Anticipated Films; More.. Black Box Office; Oscar Nominees Announced - My $.02; Sundance recap; Pan African Film Fest; Capable Tenth Black Film Fund; More films I'm looking forward to seeing in 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE32 - Black Film In AZ; 2008 Films To See; The Strike; 4 Little Girls Joanna DeShay of the Arizona Black Film Showcase talked about their upcoming event; Filmmaker Brandon Wilson and I talked about the writers' strike, as well as some films we are looking forward to seeing in 2008; and African American Literature Professor Danielle Elliott of Smith College discussed her critical essay on Spike Lee's documentary, 4 LITTLE GIRLS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE31 - A Trip Into The Minds Of Some Of Today's Black Actresses Host Tambay A Obenson, along with the editor of TheBlackActor.com Blogspot, in a virtual roundtable showcase, featuring actresses, Esosa Edosomwan, Nedra McClyde, Lisa Strum, and Leslie Jones, as they discuss various topics in consideration of their lives as working African American actresses in the 21st century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE30 - January Preview; 5 Hopes For Black Film In 2008; Robert Johnson EPISODE30 - A preview of what's coming up on the podcast for the month of January; I list my top 5 hopes and expectations for Black Film in 2008; and Robert Johnson strikes again - another rant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE29 - St Clair Bourne RIP/Golden Globe Nominees/Listener Phone Calls EPISODE29 - Remembering St Clair Bourne, dead at age 64/Golden Globe Nominees/Listener Phone Calls on DIRTY LAUNDRY, Will Smith (I AM LEGEND), R. Kelly, SINGLE HILL, and black box office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE28 - 2008 Preview; Bamboozled Review; Capable Tenth Fund Breakdown EPISODE28 - A brief preview of shows scheduled for early 2008; My review of Spike Lee's 2000 satire, BAMBOOZLED; An extensive breakdown of the "Capable Tenth Black Film Fund" - non-profit VS for-profit; how exactly will it work? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE27 - Revisiting "Capable Tenth;" Creating A Black Film Studio Tambay revisits his "Capable Tenth" funded black owned and operated film studio idea, detailing how we (black people) can realize real film industry independence. Listen to learn how YOU can help, and please join in the discussion! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE26 - Black Orpheus, This Christmas, Daratt, more... Industry news and notes; Reviews of BLACK ORPHEUS, THIS CHRISTMAS, DARATT and SIA, THE DREAM OF THE PYTHON. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE25 - News; BROTHER TO BROTHER Review; Watching Gay-Themed Films Industry news and notes; My review of BROTHER TO BROTHER; Discussion on watching gay-themed black cinema; Listener calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE24- BROTHER TO BROTHER; Review of YEELEN;Alternate film distribution EPISODE24 - Announcing the Obenson Report Movie Club - this week, BROTHER TO BROTHER; An extensive review of the Malian classic film YEELEN; How we can create alternate channels of film distribution; Revisiting "collective/movement power," and the "capable tenth" funded black film studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE23 - Film Review of CLAUDINE (1974); Responses To My NPR Editorial EPISODE23 - Film Review of CLAUDINE the 1974 film starring Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones; Reader/listener responses to my NPR editorial on a call for a black-owned film studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE 22- Hollywood 50 Most Powerful, Finishing up Top 5 W/Brandon Wilson * Premiere Magazine's annual list of the 50 most powerful/influential people in Hollywood - where are the black people? where are the black women? * Also, finishing up our top 5 lists of the films we've seen so far this year, with Brandon Wilson, writer/director of THE MAN WHO COULDN'T. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE21 - TOP 5 FILMS SO FAR THIS YEAR (10/07) W/GUEST BRANDON WILSON Writer/Director of THE MAN WHO COULDN'T, Brandon Wilson, joined me in giving our individual picks for the top 5 films we've each seen so far this year, October 2007, going into the fall/winter award season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE20 - The Obenson Report On Black Film/Cinema A note about the sex-tape queens, reality-based TV shows, and how it all relates to the consumerist, materialistic, mysogynistic society we currently live ine; A review of Tyler Perry's WHY DID I GET MARRIED; Answering the questions, "Are black audiences ready, or can black audiences appreciate more challenging, artistic, intellectual cinema?" Do box office results like those from Tyler Perry's films tell us anything in answering that question? How come certain kinds of films (notably those ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE19 - The Obenson Report On Black Film/Cinema Another light day at the office (busy, busy, busy with much on my plate - just call me by my middle name, Amadioha, Igbo for God of Thunder); Who's going to the ABFF? Let me know; Kudos to BETJ (find out why); Tambay is actually reading, but "suffering" for it; saw 3 films over the weekend - BANISHED (thumbs up), MICHAEL CLAYTON (thumbs sideways), THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (thumbs sideways); Question of the week: What was the last film you saw that generated ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE18 - The Obenson Report On Black Film/Cinema Light day; Tambay is swamped (article, festival, "capable tenth" film fund, fall film production); PAFF or ABFF; shut up Jackie Chan; Drivin' Mr Sinatra (Chris Tucker); Oprah & Tyra top Forbes list of TV personality earnings; continuing to narrow down best black films list (we've got to do better). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE17 - The Obenson Report On Black Film/Cinema 1. Black Filmmaker Showcase - Writer/Director of THE MAN WHO COULDN'T (now on sale at Amazon.com), Brandon Wilson, talks about his film from A to Z (script, production, festival run, distribution). 5. The "Capable Tenth" black film fund. We've created it; now it's time for you to act accordingly! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE16 - The Obenson Report www.tambayobenson.com - 2 BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tambay launches a new festival, the New York Black Film Festival and creates a $2000 annual fund to finance short films; also movement/collective power -what exactly YOU can do; Lastly the "Capable Tenth" redux. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE15 - The Obenson Report www.tambayobenson.com YAEC (Yet Another Existential Crisis) - So much going on... what to do? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE14 - The Obenson Report www.tambayobenson.com Joined by co-hosts Shirley Bruno & Deesha Philyaw. Discussion topics: Halle Berry's recent baby news, Eddie Griffin's N-word tirade, films we're looking forward to seeing this fall/winter, Oprah supports Obama and more...! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE13 - The Obenson Report (www.tambayobenson.com) TOPICS COVERED: Box Office Roundup! 9 Months Into The Year 2007, 400+ Films Released In Total Theatrically, Where Does Black Cinema Stand In Relation To The Rest? What Black Films Made The Cut? What Black Films Didn? What Gems Did You Miss? Plus, Tyler Perry, The One-Man Wrecking Crew... And as always, connections to my repeated discourse on our unacknowledged and untapped collective/movement power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE 12 - The Obenson Report www.tambayobenson.com Weekly Rant... Remembering Katrina; and "Mumblecore Mania" What About Our Film Movement? My Letter To Filmmaker Magazine & Their Response Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE11 - The Obenson Report - Mailbag: Lots and lots and lots of feedback from listeners accumulated over the last 3 weeks. - The reasons for my "existential crisis" 2 weeks ago... really! Trying to make sense of it all. - Revisiting the "Capable Tenth," as well as the Black Film Movement/Collective. Where do YOU stand? What can we learn from The Borg; is resistance indeed futile? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE10 - The Obenson Report - RIP Max Roach - News & Notes: A few industry news items worth mentioning and commenting on â?? how we can rid ourselves of 50 Cent with the help of Kanye West; Jay-Zâ??s millions and Chris Tuckerâ??s new elite status, and how they all relate to the "Capable Tenth;" my upcoming "new look" in the works; IFC is "Trapped in the Closet," unfortunately; need recommendations for "revolution," or "movement" films; revisiting the 100 Greatest Black Films List; remembering â??the movement/colle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE9, The Obenson Report: Weekly Rant - Are You In Or Out? We are missing movement power! Are we willing to do what is necessary to see the change we want in black cinema? Do we have the confidence and courage to stand up to the dominant power structure. Do we have a choice? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE 8 - The Obenson Report - Industry News & Notes. - Mailbag: Comments from listeners. - The notion of creating A Film Movement. - And I discuss my *radical* ideas for building a Black owned & operated Film financing, production and distribution Studio. We've done it before... we can do it again! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE 8 - The Obenson Report - Industry News & Notes. - Mailbag: Comments from listeners. - The notion of creating A Film Movement. - And I discuss my *radical* ideas for building a Black owned & operated Film financing, production and distribution Studio. We've done it before... we can do it again! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE7 - The Obenson Report Tambay rants about Robert Johnson's venture alliance with The Weinstein Company, called Our Stories... And goes on about his solution for the creation of a black film studio... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE7 - The Obenson Report Tambay rants about Robert Johnson's venture alliance with The Weinstein Company, called Our Stories... And goes on about his solution for the creation of a black film studio... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE6 - The Obenson Report - New developments: I'm moving to a new location. - Things I learned listening to other podcasts for inspiration. - Dissecting the idea of the film review. - Per numerous responses I received from the survey to recommend and review films from my vault, I will start reviewing a film on every podcast. This week: White-collar cons - one of my favorites, CHAMELEON STREET; also SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION. - Let's play a game... Masterpiece Theatre, guess the script, win a free film. Tune in to fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE6 - The Obenson Report - New developments: I'm moving to a new location. - Things I learned listening to other podcasts for inspiration. - Dissecting the idea of the film review. - Per numerous responses I received from the survey to recommend and review films from my vault, I will start reviewing a film on every podcast. This week: White-collar cons - one of my favorites, CHAMELEON STREET; also SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION. - Let's play a game... Masterpiece Theatre, guess the script, win a free film. Tune in to fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE5 - The Obenson Report: NOTE-First 25 Mins Cut Due To Audio Problems - I saw TALK TO ME, the Don Cheadle starrer, over the weekend, and give it a thumbs down. Snooze... I'll tell you why. - Mailbag - Listener comments and my responses to them (Poitier VS Van Peebles) - Results from the survey - who is the average Obenson Report audience member? Fascinating, although not too surprising results. Also, I respond to survey comments and questions. - I recapitulate all that happened during the screening of my premiere opus, BEAUTIFUL THINGS, which took place on Sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE4 - The Obenson Report Narrowing down Tambay's list of the 100 Greatest Black American films of all time. Comparisons with other similar lists of black films; Continuing analysis on a black cinema aesthetic - comparisons between eras. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE3 - The Obenson Report Audience Mailbag; The "100 Greatest Black American Films" list; Continuing discussion of how to define "black cinema;" Tambay wants to create a new film movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE2 - The Obenson Report With Special Guest, Ralph Scott, Producer For BETJ; Program Director and Co-Founder of the Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC). Topics include the current state and future of BETJ; also Ralph's personal film projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE1 PART 2 - The Obenson Report, W/ABIOLA ABRAMS Second half of Monday, the 18th, recording, featuring Abiola Abrams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE1 - The Obenson Report With special guest Abiola Abrams, host of BET's Best Shorts Program. And guest-hosts, Shirley Bruno and Numa Perrier Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE6 - Voyager On Demand With special guest, Faith Adiele, award-winning author, columnist, documentarian, and college professor. Faith is also a popular speaker and reader who has appeared at universities across the country, has been interviewed on the Tavis Smiley show, and has appeared in O Magazine. She writes on a variety of topics including women's studies, food, travel, african studies, and coming of age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE5 - Voyager On Demand Filmmaker/writer/fashion designer/homegirl w/hand grenades Shirley Bruno will be joining us, adding some much needed estrogen to our discussion, which will cover a variety of topics, of course mostly related to black cinema, including a box office rundown, a look at upcoming films of interest, and we dish out our favorites in black cinema over the last century. Learn more about Shirley Bruno at: http://www.myspace.com/astrangefruit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE4 - Voyager On Demand With guest co-host - writer Deesha Philyaw (http://www.thelastwordllc.com) - varied discussion on topics related to black cinema. This week: What exactly is Black Cinema? The term defined; also, continued discussion on whether films about specific groups of people should or can be made by only those people who belong to that specific group. For example, can a white filmmaker fully realize the experience of a black person in a story; can a male filmmaker adequately portray a female character ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE3 - Voyager On Demand Filmmaker/writer/fashion designer/homegirl w/hand grenades Shirley Bruno will be joining us, adding some much needed estrogen to our discussion, which will cover a variety of topics, of course mostly related to black cinema. Learn more about Shirley at: http://www.myspace.com/astrangefruit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE2 - Voyager On Demand Featured Guest: Aaron Ingram of Act Now Foundation - a non-profit theatre and film arts organization dedicated to showcasing the varied experiences of under-represented ethnic groups in America. The ANF hosts a monthly film screening series in Brooklyn, NY. Visit http://www.actnowproduction.org for more info. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE1 - Voyager On Demand An introduction to the Voyager On Demand podcast. The who, what, where, why, when, and how of Voyager Film Company. A brief history of black cinema; our views on the current state of cinema, specifically black cinema; and our hopes for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website