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Generating controversy is nothing new as Hudlin, whether in his filmmaking or presenting He's been profoundly influenced by one of the leaders of the independent Black film movement in this country, his older brother. Warrington Hudlin The founder of the Black Filmmaker Foundation Warrington Hudlin received national attention when as a senior at Yale, he released "Black at Yale," a documentary about minority life at that university...
...Black Filmmaker Foundation serves as an information clearinghouse and distribution service for independent filmmaker who are Black and making films about Black subjects. It is designed to give then, the break they probably won't get from Hollywood backers. Reginald Hudlin founder and director of his own project here Harvard the Harvard Black Independent Film Series an effort to bring some of these innovate Black filmmakers and their work to Harvard...
...Hudlin has arranged for screenings of works Warrington Hudlin. Roy Campanella Jr. Charles Burnett and Robert Gardener, among others. The presentations have often been accompanied by standing room only question and answer sessions with the artists Says Hudlin. "I'm bringing Black films to Harvard because I have a sense that people are willing to experiment, see something 'weird' while they're students. It I can get them to see an independent Black film. I can eliminate that idea that Black films are only political, didactic works, because they're not. They are as rich and as varied as film...
...distant future. Hudlin will soon begin work on a new film, tentatively titled. "The Kold Waves." Though a fiction piece, the movie is based on the experiences of a friend of Hudlin's, another Harvard senior. The film will tell the story of a young white musician who auditions for an otherwise all-Black band and encounters reverse racism...
...While Hudlin has not ruled out the possibility of depicting more white characters in the future, he says. "Black people are the most interesting people I know, and you only have so many opportunities to make a film. You have to try to approach every film as if it were to be your master-piece, your last statement--so I can't spend any time on other things when there is so much to be said about Black people...