Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective Presents: Reconciliation in Four Shorts
The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective is turning 10! This showcase, curated by Tayler Montague, represents the work of select Latina filmmakers that explore themes of family values, migration, and identity. The BFC is a supportive community of filmmakers that strives to create a supportive space and encourage members to create their best, strongest work.
Post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers
Twenty-five years after Miguel’s death from AIDS-related complications, his niece tracks down his estran...
Announcing New Series: Black Is, Black Ain’t
A new monthly series that celebrates black cinema from the art-house to multiplex hits and everything in between.
Handling programming in Yonkers for nearly two years now, I have tried to make the voices of others heard in what we show on a continuous basis. However, in an attempt to make this more regular and specific, we are launching a program that I am very eager to share with you all: Black Is, Black Ain't. The series will kick off on Sunday, February 25th, with Julie Dash's seminal - an...
if Beale Street Could Talk
An essay written after seeing Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk.
True/False Film Fest 2018
A Report from True/False Film Fest 2018
by Tayler Montague
At True/False, everyone is a star. It’s one big democratic space, friendly to the industry vet or casual moviegoer.
Review: Blindspotting
Written by and starring Tony Award–winner Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, Carlos López Estrada’s Blindspotting is on the surface a buddy comedy about two friends who work for a moving company in Oakland. Collin (Diggs) is on his final days of probation, living in a halfway house, and actively trying to stay out of the kind of trouble that could send him back to jail. Collin’s best friend, Miles (Casal), has a big heart but also a tendency to be reckless. They hustle to keep their heads above w...
Contributor at The Fader
My job as a substitute News Contributor was to find various news stories that would interest the Fader's audience at large.
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Rookie » Scene Report: Afropunk 2015
Tayler Montague and Tyra Mitchell 09/02/2015. Photos and collages by Tyra. Afropunk is a force of nature. Part festival, part movement, it's a place where black ......
Rookie » Who Gets to Be Successful?
... dictate my own. Tayler Montague 08/13/2015 ... One of my most memorable teachers was an older woman who reeked of Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds....
Rookie » In Print
Oct 28, 2016 ... —Tayler Montague. themothers The Mothers Brit Bennett 2016, Riverhead Books Amongst this year's debut novelists, none has swept me ......
Amandla Stenberg Gets Real In This Rookie x NYLON Feature
the actress discusses her career, comic book, and intersectional feminism...