The myDylarama team has decided to launch a podcast, on the back of our Screen Extra section, and our wish to offer an academic/contextual/ socio-political take on film and screen-related matters.
It will be hosted by Coco Green, armchair critic and wannabe academic (ABD PhD) and Abla Kandalaft, a film programmer and journalist. We both research and work with issues around race, colonialism, class and culture.
Our first myDylarama podcast begins with this top five from Coco Green. She lists her Netflix picks of the last 2 weeks that address issues around Black lives and identity - The "King Richard" episode of Trial by Media (2020); Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story (2020); Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017); American Gospel (2018); Malcolm X (1992). The running thread is the theme of Black aspiration.
She'll continue with this theme in the next episode, where she'll talk about another five films.
Episodes will vary in format and length. We're aiming for anything between 20 and 50 mins, and a mix of individual reviews, discussions, interviews and guest spots.
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About
Top Picks is hosted by two of the academics, film programmers and social researchers behind myDylarama film reviews. We use postcolonial, afro-pessimism, and Bourdieusian theories to discuss race and class in drama, documentary, mystery, and horror films. Now in its 10th year, myDy champions independent film and in using the medium as a platform for underrepresented and oft-ignored voices. myDy is official partner of the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, and collaborates with The Media Fund, ByWire, and Emerging Filmmakers Night.
Abla Kandalaft, co-founder of myDylarama, is a trilingual film programmer, researcher, journalist and translator. She is passionate about economics, environmental issues, migration, and politics; and has worked with BBC, Cannes Film Festival, and BFI. Coco Green is an aspiring academic and armchair critic. When not discussing racism in film, both on Top Picks and in the streets, she is writing about black counterpublics in hopes of completing her PhD.
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