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It is generally well known that a majority of Black films have limited access to foreign markets under the ruse that Black films don’t sell well overseas (save for the works of Black A-list actors like Denzel Washington and Will Smith). It is less generally well known in the United States that Black foreign films are given very limited access to the Black U.S. market as has been recently discussed in a brief article by Johny Pitts, ”Black Europe on Film: Ten Afropean Movies.”(1) So it can be said with a high degree of certainty that any filmmaker who makes a Black film within or outside of the American Entertainment Complex is working under a doubled system of segregation: U.S. Black...