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By Nelson | october 8, 2009 | Post a comment

GOOD HAIR opens Friday, October 9th!   After over two years of hard work, appearances at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals, and much online chatter Good Hair debuts this Friday, October 9th in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta and [...]

more tales from NELSON GEORGE
By Nelson | july 29, 2009 | 1 comment

GOOD HAIR   GOOD HAIR,the non-fiction film I produced with Chris Rock, will hit theaters on October 9 in New York, Los Angeles, [...]

A Survivor's Tale
By Nelson | march 25, 2009 | 3 comments

written, directed & photographed byNELSON GEORGESAMSON STYLESas The Survivoredited byNICOLE NELCH© 2009 URBAN ROMANCES[...]

BLACKDANCE
By Nelson | january 26, 2009 | Post a comment

Tuesday was the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. You don't need me to tell you what went down in Washington, D.C. It was a moment of triumphant American history. I watched this amazing event from a bar in Park City, Utah, where I was a small part of American cinematic history. I was in Park [...]

Good Hair at 2009 Sundance Film Festival
By Nelson | january 14, 2009 | 1 comment

GOOD HAIRUS Documentary Feature FilmsU.S.A.,  2009, 95 mins., colorWhen Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head! Director Jeff [...]

A BARBER'S TALE on STARWORKS
By Nelson | january 14, 2009 | Post a comment

Catching up on the blog posts...Last year Jauretsi Saizarbitoria posted about my short film "A Barber's Tale on STARWORKS.  Written & Directed by Nelson George, starring Reg E. Cathey (The Wire) and edited by TreVZ (The New Pop) Check it out here: http://starworksny.com/blog/2008/11/07/barbers-tale/[...]

Looking for help with ‘Soul Cities’
By Nelson | june 12, 2008 | 12 comments

I’ll be traveling around America this summer in search of bands, singers, bars, clubs and clothing stores and interesting stuff related to the feeling and culture of Soul for my VH1 series Soul Cities. I’m not looking for tourist spots but places and spaces that only the locals know. The cities I’ve visiting are New [...]

She’s Gotta Have It Revisited
By Nelson | march 25, 2008 | 7 comments

After years of negotiation and delay She’s Gotta Have It is finally on dvd. I watched it the other night after not seeing in ten or so years. It was a film that changed many things, including my life. After meeting Spike Lee through a friend, I found that he lived two blocks from me [...]

The Wire - Post Soul Series
By Nelson | march 9, 2008 | 2 comments

I know it wasn’t a “black” show. Most of the writers were white men. Only a few of the directors were of color, though more were the last two seasons. And black women weren’t as prominent or deeply explored as the brothers. Yet The Wire, which ended tonight after five mostly brilliant seasons, presented the [...]