Black Film Archive Wants to Fill Your Streaming Gaps

Ossie Davis’s 1972 film, Black Girl. Photo: reelblack via YouTube “Everything I do speaks specifically to Black people. Will a Black person take this and do what they need with it?,” says Maya Cade, the intrepid founder of Black Film Archive and the audience-development strategist for the Criterion Collection. Cade announced the launch of her archival website on Twitter last week, and the adulation has been fervent.

Cade’s archive illuminates a stinging truth: Despite the Black-film streaming guides that proliferated on the internet during last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, the streamers themselves have been ill-equipped to fully articulate the wealth of important Black titles that are available. Black-film history is often reduced to a small batch of titles released in the past 30 years. Cade aims to change that.

Once Cade decided to create an archive, her initial vision shifted: “I really had to start making different kinds of considerations because it is about the films themselves.

Scrolling through Cade’s site, it didn’t take long before I realized just how many titles I wasn’t aware of and how many were waiting to be discovered. “These are segmented across sites. In a [streaming] world where people are given things when they ask for them, the consideration of Black desire in this specific marketplace has not been at the forefront of people’s minds,” she explains.

Now that that's finished, who's tackling all the White films from that era?

MajorPazuzu You leave my streaming gap alone

mayascade They tried to scare me away 😒

Phil_Lewis_ 👀👀

vulture HotToddy19 THIS IS SO VERY MUCH YOU.

mayascade Great press! You GO, Maya!! And thank you for all the time, time, time, you put into this. 👏🏽👏🏽👊🏽🤎

mayascade breathtaking, AGAIN

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