Robert Daniels

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Robert Daniels |Danielle Scruggs |Love Jones

When Gina Prince-Bythewood began writing her feature debut Love & Basketball,the WNBA was a dream coming into fruition. For a time, leagues in Europe provided the best option for America’s top women college ball players to continue their careers after graduating. So when the film’s protagonist, Monica Wright (played as a child by Kyla Pratt), decides to pursue basketball, she’s chasing a passion with an uncertain future.

2 months ago | letterboxd.com | Adesola Thomas |Robert Daniels

Maybe you’ve seen it: that black-and-white footage of Black boys leaping between apartment buildings, soaring across the Los Angeles sky. Charles Burnett captured these low-shot acrobatics on 16mm for his UCLA master’s thesis film, 1978’s Killer of Sheep,which he wrote, directed, shot and edited himself.