The Weekend and Rom-Coms
For Week 3 of Black Is Not A Genre, we explore "rom-coms." We’ll be viewing Stella Meghie’s The Weekend (1997) together and discussing the genre of rom-coms to include Black culture’s essential contribution. Our special guests are:
Dominic Jones
Dominic is a Visual Artist & Performer currently based in Texas. She attended Columbia University in NYC, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies. Her video work has premiered at Austin Music Video Fest; Babes Fest, Austin; Helmuth Projects, California; and Studiolo in Switzerland. She's also published video work and film reviews for online publications such as i-D VICE Germany, Afropunk, Noisey, Dallas Observer, D Magazine, and FACT Mag.
Jazmyne Moreno
Jazmyne is an Oklahoma-bred, Austin-based Film programmer and grant writer and host of the Lates series at Austin Film Society
Tyler English-Beckwith
Tyler is a playwright, filmmaker, and actress originally from Dallas Texas and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of the 2020 Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers, and the recipient of the 2018 Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Play Prize. Tyler is also a member of the 2020 Page 73 writers group Interstate 73. Her plays include: Mingus (2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Play Conference Finalist), Maya and Rivers (2020 Fire This Time Festival), Bitch (Development: Page 73’s Interstate 73, Joust Theatre Company), and TWENTYEIGHT (The Vortex, Austin, TX). The series of original films Tyler wrote, co-directed, and acted in titled “Umbra” can be seen on meowwolf.com. Her screenwriting work can also be heard on the upcoming scripted podcast, “Daughters of DC”. Tyler holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch, and a BA in African and African Diaspora Studies from UT Austin. Tyler hopes to create worlds, in her writing, where black women live beyond the basic means of survival and have the audacity to be autonomous.