Dennis Dortch’s A Good Day to be Black & Sexy has a foot in what can seem like two disparate fragments of the film world, black cinema and art house cinema. The film explores contemporary relationships in six vignettes. Stars Mylika Davis and Jerome Anthony Hawkins discuss why they were happy to portray black sexuality in a fresh way.

Black & Sexy interview

Lance Hammer’s debut feature Ballast is garnering positive feedback here at Sundance (see Karina’s full review here). The film is a carefully paced drama about suicide, youth, and the emotional successes and failures that bind people together. Hammer’s influence was his setting, the Mississippi Delta. He cast only local actors, most of them with no professional experience. In this interview Hammer and stars Micheal Smith, Tarra Riggs and Johnny McPhail talk about working without a script, the bonds formed on set, and why throwing away the script is the first step toward truth in film.

Ballast interviews