[This is PART V of the WMM Anti-Racist Filmmaking blog series. Visit wemakemovies.org/blog for the previous FOUR parts.]

So you've left the meeting. You were attentive and taking notes. You digested all the ways in which we are all complicit in racism, have educated yourself on the unspeakable atrocities endured by Black people in this country, and are beginning to understand how far-reaching racial injustice extends itself, embedding itself in every facet of American life. But you're left still not knowing what to actually do. Like every diligent person who ever walked away from a meeting, you want to know, what are your action items?

Well, we found some ideas from experts who have devoted their lives to the fine work of racist education and and have shared them below. 

Go out in the world and switch up what you notice. Don't take anything for granted. Ask different questions than you have before. Diversity Educator, Dr. Eddie Moore,...

[This is PART IV of the WMM Anti-Racist Filmmaking blog series. Visit 
wemakemovies.org/blog for the next FOUR parts.] 

The following is by no means a complete list, but it is a place to start. 

1. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, by Layla F. Saad
2. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
3. So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
4. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi
5. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
6. How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
7. Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8. Women, Race, & Class, by Angela Davis
9. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, by Grace Lee Boggs
10. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, by Dorothy Roberts
11. ...

[This is PART III of the WMM Anti-Racist Filmmaking blog series. Visit
wemakemovies.org/blog for the other FOUR parts.]

Dear Filmmakers, it's time we refine our catalogue of films that detail the Black experience. The American collective knowledge of the film franchise, Friday, the seminal Boyz N The Hood, and the eminent Malcolm X just doesn't cut it. There are a plethora of films Black voices have offered up, and they beg to be consumed with as much enthusiasm and appreciation as any film from their White counterparts. 

There are films that were previously buried by the American ego, but have recently been resurrected in light of the BLM movement gaining a newfound audience in the past year. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, directed by Swedish filmmaker Göran Olsson, is one such film. Genre-busting content such as the racial revelation disguised as a superhero, sci-fi series Watchmen...

Please note that WMM NEVER wanted to become the arbiters of taste and decency for its community. We HATE censorship of any kind.  However, given the times we are living in, we also feel that artistic guidelines for the community that we want to have and participate in, are needed.

Above all, we feel if you operate with the golden rule of “Do unto others as you would like to have done unto yourself,” we want to think that you will never have a problem with a piece that you bring to We Make Movies. However, because everything in our world now needs to be spelled out, and mutual respect and decency are no longer givens in our society, here is our official policy on what is and is not acceptable in the We Make Movies community.

We Make Movies holds the following truths to be self evident:

• You have a right to the freedom of speech and the freedom to explore challenging ideas and subject matter.
• You have a right to develop your voice as a creator.
• You have a right to...