Anthony Jones and Tayyib Smith
Recorded
August 4, 2024
30:32 minutes
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mbb000148
Description
At the BlackStar Film Festival, colleagues Anthony "AJ" Jones (23) and Tayyib Smith (53) discuss the importance of black narrative control, community, and culture, touching on family, music, business challenges, and the hope inspired by black and queer creatives.Subject Log / Time Code
Anthony Jones (AJ) and Tayyib Smith (TS) engage in discussion about the importance of black people being in control of the narrative with BlackStar Film Festival.
TS talks about the significance of Toni Morrison and the way we as people view things within our community.
TS speaks on how proud he is of the growth of the festival and seeing black creatives come together.
TS expresses the importance of community and family, mentioning he moved around a lot as he was younger.
TS talks about his mom and admires her wisdom.
TS speaks on having a connection to the low-income and project and low-income housing community as the majority of them are African-American people.
TS talks about Chi-chis and his cousin being a returning citizen and how that made a difference in his family.
AJ and TS discuss music and the history of Philadelphia International Records being a huge part of the Black Community and BlackStar Film Festival.
TS expresses that black business is always being controlled by white power.
AJ and TS converse about a film named "Dreams and Nightmares" at the BlackStar Film Festival being bold and TS admiring it.
TS admires the boldness in the Queer community and learning from them gives him hope for the future.
TS expresses he sees diverse nuisance within the festival, but seeing a structural norm we've never been able to participate in the world as black people.
TS admires black family and how we choose our community.
Participants
- Anthony Jones
- Tayyib Smith