When actress Niecy Nash-Betts was five years old, back in 1975, she was watching TV with her grandmother when she was captivated by a performance from flamboyant nightclub singer Lola Falana.
Ava DuVernay’s arts and social impact collective ARRAY has announced its slate of summer programming, including an actor’s masterclass taught by Emmy winner Niecy Nash-Betts, a cinematic celebration of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the debut of two new commissioned projects from ARRAY’s Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP).
Photo: Jean-Michel Basquiat 1982 © James Van der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The opening voice over in “Frybread Face and Me” precisely sets more than just the tone for the coming-of-age feature film. Against a blank, black screen the narrator states, “My grandmother once told me in Navajo storytelling, symbols mean more than facts and time means nothing at all.”