Culture Machine

I showed this excellent 2024 docuseries, Hollywood Black in my Ethnicity and Identity in Media class. Now all episodes are streaming free on MGM+ mgmplus.com/series/hollywo…

Hollywood Black is such an excellent documentary on Amazon Prime. 10/10

Y’all need to watch Justin Simien’s #HollywoodBlack before it leaves Amazon Prime at the end of the month. Filmmakers, especially Black filmmakers, need to watch it. K, love ya, bye! ✊🏾😘✌🏾

If you love Black film and want to learn more about the history and impact of Black film -- how it made Hollywood, how it's been counterculture, how it's been co-opted, and where it is today -- I would recommend #HollywoodBlack.

Me October 1st

What are Black jobs? I'll go first. Explaining things to white people

#HauntedMansion is the biggest surprise of the year! It’s laugh out loud funny, spooky & explores layered themes of grief & loss. I love that it examines that journey particularly for Black men & boys. Truly impressive ghostly effects & movie magic. A perfect film for the family!

#HauntedMansion director Justin Simien talks #SAGAFTRAstrike and Bob Iger at movie’s premiere at Disneyland. #justforvariety @Variety

Happy to report #HauntedMansion is one of those family films that will spook kids, make adults laugh (a lot), and fans of the ride will keep pointing at the screen because it’s loaded with Easter eggs. Director Justin Simien & screenwriter Katie Dippold did great work.

Haunted Mansion Featurette! youtu.be/Jdk3XIT0NZ0

The strike has unleashed an opportunity for studios to cut costs at writers’ expense - a “very reasonable terror,” @CultureMachine_’s Justin Simien tells TheWrap thewrap.com/writers-strike…

ICYMI from over the weekend, I interviewed "Dear White People" creator Justin Simien about the effect the strike and the suspension of many writers' overall deals has on others in the industry and why he launched a GoFundMe for his @CultureMachine_ team. indiewire.com/news/business/…

@UGottaWoody Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!🥺🫶

If you can, please donate and support. If you can't, please share the link and help these amazing BIPOC/LGBTQ creatives weather this storm and continue to thrive and survive. We need their voices, their talent and their stories. gofundme.com/f/keep-culture… #WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAmember

@ARTSindustree WOW this is incredible thank you!!!!!!!😭❤️

@thatkarimahmad Thank you 😭🫶

Paramount TV Studios Suspends Overall Deal With Justin Simien’s Culture Machine Amid Writers’ Strike (via @TheWrap) ❤️Please continue contributing!🎥 #film Go-Fund-Culture Machine!💚gofund.me/0c95d731 ⭐️#JustinSimien ⭐️#culturemachine Read more. thewrap.com/justin-simien-…

@ARTSindustree Thank you for the support!!😭🫶

A new update from Justin Simien and Culture Machine on IG. Find out how the go-fund-me is going! instagram.com/p/CsrfBh1JVYI/

Many of the major tv/film studios are using the writer's strike as grounds to abruptly suspend overall deals, leaving small production companies like Culture Machine and their employees in sudden financial free-fall — and no one’s talking about it🧐 #wga #wgastrong

Hi it’s Justin 😮‍💨I need your help… I’m raising emergency funds for Culture Machine (link in bio), the company behind Dear White People. The studios suspended overall deals (our main source of financing) in response to the writers strike and I’ve privately been in triage mode.

CTA from @CultureMachine_ aka the fine folks who brought you “dear white people” and the upcoming “Haunted mansion” movie! Please boost and donate if you can!