{"id":29032,"date":"2022-02-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29032"},"modified":"2022-02-22T08:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:37:10","slug":"oscar-micheaux-the-superhero-of-black-filmmaking-2021-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29032","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking&#8221; (2021) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z022222zview_oscarmicheau.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"714\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking<\/strong><\/em> (2021)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Francesco Zippel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Francesco Zippel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Oscar Micheaux<\/strong><strong>, Chuck D, Jacqueline Stewart, Morgan Freeman\u00a0<\/strong> and<strong> Mario Van Pebbles.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oscar Micheaux was a writer, director and producer of both silent and sound movies.\u00a0 Micheaux has been called &#8220;the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oscar Micheaux has a star on the <em>Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/em>, was honored by the <em>Director&#8217;s Guild of America<\/em>, the <em>Producers Guild of America<\/em> has an annual award named after him, he is in the <em>Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame<\/em>, his image has appeared on a US postage stamp, and there are multiple Film Festivals named after him! Sadly all of these accolades came posthumously.\u00a0 Outside of serious fans of film history, few know about Oscar Micheaux.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I first learned of Oscar Micheaux because he was the writer\/director of <em>Body and Soul<\/em> starring Paul Robeson.\u00a0 Thanks to <em>Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking<\/em>, I now know the life story of Micheaux.\u00a0 What an amazing story it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Micheaux didn&#8217;t let any obstacle hinder him.\u00a0 At a time when there weren&#8217;t as many opportunities for people of color, Micheaux was able to raise funds to create films that he would write, direct, produce and even personally distribute from town to town!\u00a0 He would then use the funds from his current film to finance his next movie.\u00a0 More importantly Micheaux created films of substance that still resonate today.\u00a0 Micheaux&#8217;s films dealt with race relations and featured complex characters in modern day settings.\u00a0\u00a0 I wish more people knew about Oscar Micheaux.\u00a0 Thanks to Francesco Zippel we can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em> Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking<\/em> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z022222zview_oscarmicheau2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021) Director:\u00a0 Francesco Zippel Screenplay: Francesco Zippel Starring:\u00a0 Oscar Micheaux, Chuck D, Jacqueline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,17,72,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-history","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29041,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032\/revisions\/29041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}