Search results
In 2021, it was announced that she will produce a film adaptation of Coates' novel The Water Dancer with Harpo Films and Plan B. Accolades. On June 23, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Forbes to be a member of the National Council of the Arts. The Senate confirmed her on February 17, 2022 via voice vote. Personal life
Mar 17, 2021 · The adaptation of Between the World and Me earned Forbes an NAACP Image Awards nomination as well as a Critics Choice Awards nomination. She will next team with Plan B and Harpo Films to bring ...
Apollo Theater, Ms. Forbes is set to direct the Broadway premiere of alongside Soul Train producer Questlove, playwright Dominique Morisseau, and choreographer Camille A. Brown. Updated April 2021
In a moment of racial reckoning, Kamilah Forbes quickly turned ‘Between the World and Me’ into a film. In the new film version of “Between the World and Me,” now streaming on HBO Max, Black actors and activists perform stirring monologues from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2015 book.
Jan 21, 2021 · This winter, HBO released a film based on the book, which was directed and produced by the acclaimed Kamilah Forbes, who first produced the work at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City. Forbes and Coates were friends at Howard University in Washington D.C.
Dec 4, 2020 · WarnerMedia announced it’s putting its entire 2021 movie slate, all 17 films, on HBOMax on the same day the movies premiere in theaters. In a moment of racial reckoning, Kamilah Forbes quickly turned ‘Between the World and Me’ into a film.
Kamilah Forbes, alumna of Howard University, incredible producer-director was honored with The Chadwick Boseman Arts and Entertainment Award in 2021 by The C...
