Thursday, July 28, 2011

Profound New Documentary - Dark Girls


Dark Girls is a documentary exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture. The film is slated for a Fall/Winter 2011 release, is directed and produced by Bill Duke (Duke Media) and D. Channsin Berry (Urban Winter Entertainment).

The independent project, set to premier in October [2011] at the International Black Film Festival in Nashville, is in need of funds to be completed. Duke and Berry’s goal is to raise $250,000 by July 31. They’ve raised, to date, slightly more than $4,700.-Ebony/Jet.com
The below 9 min. clip is profound to say the least...


To see more clips from the upcoming Dark Girls documentary, to make a contribution and/or post videos of your own testimony, visit: http://officialdarkgirlsmovie.com/

You can read the Ebony/Jet interview with Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry here

You can read a review of Dark Girls here

UPDATE: May 1, 2013
Based on the above tweet posted last night by One Village Entertainment, it looks like Bill Duke's documentary, Dark Girls (which we've been following since mid-2011) is heading to Oprah Winfrey's OWN network (the other black TV network) this June.


This is the artwork mentioned in the Tweet above

Info from Shadow & Act

UPDATE: JUNE 2013
Dark Girls will air on OWN on Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 10PM EST. Read new reactions to this documentary in the comments section at Shadow & Act here

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