“Voodoo Macbeth” took home two major awards, including Best of Fest, at the 27th annual Sedona International Film Festival. The film, directed and written by a team of USC School of Cinematic Arts students, also received the Director’s Choice Independent Spirit Award (Narrative Feature).
The USC School of Cinematic Arts movie recounts how a 20-year-old Orson Welles adapted and directed a Federal Theatre Project production of “Macbeth” in Harlem in 1936.
“Voodoo Macbeth,” a film recounting the 1936 production, will be an official selection at the Harlem International Film Festival in May. It will be screened at the AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 Theatres.
The 45th annual Cleveland International Film Festival will stream the USC movie “Voodoo Macbeth” and many other selections on April 8-20.
Orson Welles fans who were left cold by “Mank” will find some relief in “Voodoo Macbeth,” a USC School of Cinematic Arts production that delves into an important moment in American theater and race relations.
A trailer and four brief scenes from the forthcoming “Voodoo Macbeth” film have surfaced online.
Orson Welles’ groundbreaking all-Black stage production of Macbeth is the subject of an upcoming BBC Radio 4 play. “Voodoo Macbeth” will be broadcast on January 28.
The film Voodoo Macbeth, which chronicles Orson Welles’ groundbreaking Harlem production of Macbeth with an all-black cast in 1936, is now in post-production. Made possible through a Warner Brothers grant, the film was supervised by Warner Brothers executives and the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. From its 27-page pitch, “Voodoo Macbeth depicts […]
Orson Welles’ production was first staged in April 1936.
It will include both the original 1948 107-minute cut and the 1950 pared-down 85-minute re-release.
Exhibits run throughout October 2016.
The release is set for Nov. 15.
Two Welles scholars are contributing to the release.
The production debuted on April 14, 1936.
A cinematic Shakespearean tribute is planned for January 2016.
Writer-artist Norris Burroughs is the son of Eric Burroughs, who played the bullwhip-wielding Hecate.
By RAY KELLY What author Joseph McBride refers to as The Year of Orson Welles has received a stellar launch with a five-week retrospective of his work at the Film Forum in New York City. Chris Welles Feder, the late filmmaker’s eldest daughter, made a rare on stage appearance on January 16, joining McBride for […]
The two French releases will be available individually and in a collector’s box set on November 5.
Dann Cahn, who worked as an assistant editor on Orson Welles’ 1948 film “Macbeth” and an editorial supervisor eight years later on “Fountain of Youth,” died Wednesday at his California home. Cahn, 89, was the last surviving member of the original creative team behind “I Love Lucy,” according to the Los Angeles Times. He began […]
