AFI Movie Club Celebrates AFI Awards 2020 Honoree Judas and The Black Messiah
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- Published on Saturday, 13 February 2021 08:24
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AFI AWARDS celebrates Judas and The Black Messiah with new content featuring the director and star of the film. Actor Daniel Kaluuya accepts the AFI AWARDS honor and introduces the film to the AFI Movie Club audience.
Director, co-writer and producer Shaka King takes the audience "Behind the Scene" when FBI handler Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) tries to appeal to Black Panther member William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) to get him to justify serving as an FBI informant.
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"JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH raises a fist for change. Capturing the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s that echoes into our modern moment, Shaka King's timely tragedy burns with righteous rage and Shakespearean turns on power and betrayal.
Towering performances by Daniel Kaluuya as Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and LaKeith Stanfield as FBI informant William O'Neal drive the collision of unending horror and the ever too elusive hope that 'Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our own destiny." -The American Film Institute.
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The AFI AWARDS celebration is sponsored by Audi, a supporter of AFI programs for the past 17 years. To commemorate each of the AFI AWARDS recipients, Audi has created the AFI AWARDS Audi Scholarships initiative providing scholarships in the name of the honorees to women and BIPOC Fellows at the AFI Conservatory – for a total contribution of $250,000. Congratulations to Haley Beasley, Producing Fellow, recipient of the AFI AWARDS Audi Scholarship in the name of AFI AWARDS Honoree Judas and The Black Messiah.
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Daniel Kaluuya Intro Video on AFI's YouTube channel
Shaka King "Behind the Scene" video on AFI's YouTube channel
Download Daniel Kaluuya Intro video
Download Shaka King "Behind the Scene" video
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