- unitid
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{"value"=>"24538", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22838091", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Black 2018", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1971-2004", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1971/2004"}
{"value"=>"1980-1996", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1980/1996"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Black Filmmaker Foundation collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 audio_recording", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"715 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Black Filmmaker Foundation (BFF) is a nonprofit membership organization co-founded and led by filmmaker Warrington Hudlin. The Black Filmmaker Foundation collection consists of 715 moving image recordings and one sound recording created from 1971 to 2004, with the bulk of the collection created in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection includes films, demo reels, music videos, and other media produced by Black Filmmaker Foundation members and collaborators, as well as recordings of the organization's public programs."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Black Filmmaker Foundation", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Black Filmmaker Foundation (BFF) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1978 by filmmaker Warrington Hudlin (July 16, 1952 -) and his fellow Yale alumni Alric Nembhard and George Cunningham. Helmed by Hudlin since its founding, the organization has sought to distribute Black-made films outside of theatrical release, and foster relationships and dialogue between Black filmmakers and audiences. BFF has worked with, promoted, and collected the work of generations of filmmakers, including Neema Barnette, Steven Torriano Berry, and Spike Lee. As described in a 2002 <span class=\"title\">Variety</span> article, \"[f]or more than two decades, BFF has played a pivotal role in the emergence of the contemporary Black film movement.\" The organization continues to operate a professional network for performers and production professionals of color.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of 715 moving image recordings and one sound recording created from 1971 to 2004, with the bulk of the collection created in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection includes films, demo reels, music videos, and other media produced by Black Filmmaker Foundation members and collaborators, as well as recordings of the organization's public programs. In addition to Black arts, style, and culture, recurring subjects in the collection include responses to gang and gun violence, the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, the AIDS crisis, and relationships between Black men and women.</p> <p>The collection is arranged in four series. When available, directors and other production credits, derived from sources including title cards, IMDB, and Worldcat, are included in each item's content note.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Black Filmmaker Foundation, 2018.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Traci Mark</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Anika Paris</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2023</span>.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection, and a grant from the Mellon Foundation supported the digitization."}
- date_start
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1971
- keydate
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1971
- date_end
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2004
- date_inclusive_start
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1971
- date_inclusive_end
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2004
- date_bulk_start
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1980
- date_bulk_end
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1996
- extent_statement
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1 audio_recording. 715 video_recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Black Filmmaker Foundation collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}