Programmer Rógan Graham Talks Championing Black Women Filmmakers & Handing UK Debuts To Indie Classics Like Jessie Maple’s ‘Will’ With Buzzy BFI Season ‘Black Debutantes’

In May, the British Film Institute will hand long-overdue UK premieres to two landmark features of American cinema, Jessie Maple’s Will, the first feature-length independent film produced by a Black American woman, and Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, a time-hopping fable often described by critics as among the greatest independent films in U.S. history. Both titles […]

Apr 25, 2025 - 18:10

Programmer Rógan Graham Talks Championing Black Women Filmmakers & Handing UK Debuts To Indie Classics Like Jessie Maple’s ‘Will’ With Buzzy BFI Season ‘Black Debutantes’

In May, the British Film Institute will hand long-overdue UK premieres to two landmark features of American cinema, Jessie Maple’s Will, the first feature-length independent film produced by a Black American woman, and Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, a time-hopping fable often described by critics as among the greatest independent films in U.S. history. Both titles […]