At BlackStar Film Festival, Seeking Mavis Beacon filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross discuss the woman at the heart of their new hybrid documentary, digital avatars and navigating the internet with agency.

Sing Sing star Colman Domingo speaks to Adesola Thomas about rehabilitation through theater, the human vulnerability of acting and how the art you’re seeking is also seeking you.

With her directorial feature debut Janet Planet now in theaters, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-director Annie Baker and star Julianne Nicholson reflect with Adesola Thomas about the childhood nostalgia of hazy Massachusetts summers.

As Toronto’s Paradise Theatre kicks off a John Waters retrospective, Adesola Thomas chats with the “Pope of Trash” about the language of the art world, rodent hijinks and why Pink Flamingos is the perfect first date movie.

With Origin in UK and Irish cinemas now and coming to VOD in the US, Adesola Thomas sits down with filmmaker Ava DuVernay for a wide-reaching conversation about collective grief and humanity.

American Fiction filmmaker Cord Jefferson and actor Jeffrey Wright speak to Adesola Thomas about inviting smarter questions from audiences, Black grouches and André 3000’s creative freedom.

With her poetic debut feature All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt out in the world, filmmaker Raven Jackson trusts Adesola Thomas with her vision of the present, her love of her own past, and the magic of Southern communities.

Justine Triet dissects her Palme d’Or (and Palm Dog)-winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall in a conversation about truth, fiction, 50 Cent and Fincher.

The creative team behind Earth Mama open up about comion for mothers, Bay Area hyphy and the films that raised them.

Chevalier director Stephen Williams, writer Stefani Robinson and stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo speak to Adesola Thomas about breathing new life into the great Joseph Bologne.

A.V. Rockwell shares how her debut feature A Thousand and One interrogates Harlem’s shifting identity, the ‘Angry Black Woman’ trope, and our love for each other. 

Milisuthando Bongela on inviting audiences into a life growing up under Apartheid without knowing it and the beauty of poetry in her eponymous documentary.