BLM Watchlist

In the same way that you 'vote with your wallet', the cultural and creative choices you make can be a powerful form of activism. 

Last year I composed a watchlist of films and TV I love from Black creatives, and it has been sat in my google docs doing fuck all since then. To close off my blog I decided to put it here, and add to it gradually with creatives of colour who inspire me. 

I hope it gives you something to watch, and I hope it leads you to some new, marginalised creatives that deserve your time and attention. 

Film

Idris Elba	Yardie
Barry Jenkins	Moonlight If Beale St Could Talk
Ava DuVernay	13th Selma
Blitz Bazawule	The Burial of Kojo
Nadia Hallgren	Becoming
TJ Martin/Daniel Lindsay	LA 92
Spike Lee	Pass Over Chi-Raq Blackkklansman Do The Right Thing Malcolm X She’s Gotta Have It Da 5 Bloods
Kenny Leon	American Son
Ryan Coogler	Black Panther Creed Fruitvale Station
Kasi Lemmons	Harriet Eve’s Bayou
Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave Widows
Dee Rees	Mudbound Pariah
Jordan Peele	Get Out Us
Ed Burke / Beyonce	Homecoming
Melina Matsoukas & Lena Waithe	Queen & Slim
Numa Perrier	Jezebel
Julie Dash	Daughters of the Dust The Rosa Parks Story
John Singleton	Boyz in the Hood Shaft
Nate Parker	The Birth of a Nation
Chiwitel Ejiofor	The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
Tyler Perry	A Fall From Grace
Lizzie Borden	Born In Flames
Ayoka Chenzira	Alma’s Rainbow
Cheryl Dunye	The Watermelon Woman
Maya Angelou	Down In The Delta
John Akomfrah	Handsworth Songs
Horace Ov	Pressure

TV

Kenya Barris	Black AF Black-ish
Ava DuVernay	When they See Us Queen Sugar
Steven Canals	Pose
Justin Simien/Njeri brown	Dear White People
Jemar Tisby	The Colour of Compromise
Various Producers	The Innocence Files
Michaela Coel	Chewing Gum I May Destroy You
Barry Jenkins	The Underground Railroad
Donald Glover	Atlanta
Various Producers	Greenleaf
Courtney A Kemp	Power
John Singleton	Snowfall
Trevor Von Eden	Black Lightning

Lena Waithe

Master of None