Afrocentricity

On the surface this collection of shorts by upandcoming African American filmmakers arrived at a perfect time The cuttingedge products of the New Black Cinema of the early 90s had disappeared giving way to embarrassingly stereotypical scatological fare such as Booty Call and Next Friday This featurepacked compilation which includes production notes interviews with all of the filmmakers and audio commentary by four attempts to prove that African American cinema is intent on moving past the lowbrow humor as six of the seven shorts steer clear of any comedy