BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025)
Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
Director: Kahlil Joseph
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Kaneza Schaal as Young W.E.B. Du Bois & Funmilayo Akachukwu |
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Hope Giselle as Lady |
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Shaunette Renée Wilson as Shayla Morris & Sarah |
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Tony Okungbowa as The Rum Tycoon |
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Zora Casebere as Max |
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Peter Jay Fernandez as W.E.B. Dubois |
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Penny Johnson Jerald as Shirley Graham Du Bois |
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John Tijani as Robert |
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Tony Tambi as Sana |
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Ama K. Abebrese as Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti |
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Noel Arthur as Desmond |
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Alzo Slade as BLKNWS Anchor |
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Aja Monet as Podcaster |
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David Dontoh as Kwame Nkrumah |
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Mohamed Dione as The Chairman |
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Constance Ejuma as Front Desk Attendant |
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Onyx Simpson as Onyx Aniola, Fannie's Niece & Dice Woman |
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Bria Samoné Henderson as Fannie Lou Hamer |
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Julanne Chidi Hill as Hattie May |
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Victor Ramsey as Bodyguard |
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Bronte Velez as SFF Worker |
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Danielle E. Hawkins as Roller Skater |
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Wole Soyinka as |
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Anas Aremeyaw Anas as |
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Saidiya Hartman as |
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Fred Moten as |
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Trifari Williams as |
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Amy Sall as |
| Directing | Kahlil Joseph | Director |
| Production | Kahlil Joseph | Producer |
| Writing | Kahlil Joseph | Writer |
| Editing | Kahlil Joseph | Editor |
| Writing | Saidiya Hartman | Writer |
| Writing | Irvin Hunt | Writer |
| Production | Onye Anyanwu | Producer |
| Production | Amy Greenleaf | Producer |
| Production | Nicolas Gonda | Producer |
| Camera | Bradford Young | Director of Photography |
| Production | Kwaku Obeng Boateng | Line Producer |
| Production | Anikah McLaren | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Luke Lynch | Editor |
| Editing | Paul Rogers | Editor |
| Production | Steven Soderbergh | Executive Producer |
| Production | David Linde | Executive Producer |
| Production | Aisha Coley | Casting |
| Art | Nora Mendis | Production Design |
| Art | Nathan Parker | Production Design |
| Art | Warren Alan Young | Production Design |
| Art | Mark Larkin | Art Direction |
| Art | Naomi Munro | Art Direction |
| Sound | Jacob Flack | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Brent Kiser | Sound Supervisor |
| Sound | Peter Osterlund | Sound Editor |
| Camera | Jaclyn Martinez | Still Photographer |
| Writing | Onye Anyanwu | Writer |
| Writing | Kristen Adele Calhoun | Writer |
| Writing | Christina Sharpe | Writer |
| Writing | Madebo Fatunde | Writer |
| Production | James Shani | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Kaneza Schaal | Writer |
| Sound | Klein | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Robina Riccitiello | Co-Executive Producer |
