Fashioning Modern Africanism

OBAMA: IN PURSUIT OF A MORE PERFECT UNION   | Stream now HBO’s  Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union  chronicles the personal and political journey of President Barack Obama as America grapples with its racial history.  Directed by seven-time Emmy winner Peter Kunhardt and executive produced by  The New Yorker 's Jelani Cobb, the three-part docuseries has a 91% critics rating on  Rotten Tomatoes , with  RogerEbert.com  calling it “a comprehensive and compelling analysis… Kunhardt’s film brightly illuminates how essential the discussion of Obama’s handling of race is to American culture as a whole, especially when it was no accident that every president before him was a white man.” Timed to coincide with the former president’s 60th birthday,  Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union  features the likes of politician Jesse Jackson, professors  Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West, political consultant David Axelrod, authors Michael Eric Dyson and Ta-Nehisi Coates, journalists

T he first Showmax Original true-crime series,  Devilsdorp,  launched on Thursday, 29 July 2021 to five-star reviews, topping Showmax’s SA Top 20 and setting a new record for the most hours watched in its first four days of launch of any film or series ever on Showmax - outperforming the likes of  Game of Thrones, The Real Housewives of Durban  and  The River .  Social media has been buzzing about  Devilsdorp  all weekend, with Khaya Dlanga  tweeting , “ This is the wildest, craziest and most unbelievable South African documentary I have ever seen. And to think these events happened in a small town from 2012 to 2016?! Wild!   #Devilsdorp ” and  Rapport  editor Waldimar Pelser taking to  Facebook  to proclaim, “ Devilsdorp  is one of the best crime documentaries I have ever seen. There are some good cops in our country, too.” Watch the trailer for   Devilsdorp,  which was directed by David Enright and produced by IdeaCandy below: The four-part docu-series investigates the 11 Krugersdorp

June is Pride Month, a celebration of all things LGBTQIA+, so Showmax has compiled a watchlist of 13 recent queer series, movies and documentaries anyone can enjoy, regardless of their sexual identity.  WE’RE HERE   | Drag reality show   In  We’re Here ,  RuPaul’s Drag Race  veterans Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O'Hara and Shangela Laquifa Wadley inspire small-town residents from across America to step outside their comfort zones for a night of no-holds-barred drag - and a life-changing journey of self-discovery. “HBO's heartfelt  We're Here  is the drag show America needs now,” says  Salon . “If it sounds like  Queer Eye , but make it drag and make it MAGA [Make America Great Again] states, well, it is. It also has a way of upending expectations that even the Fab Five never did… On a deeper level, it's a show about loving - truly loving - your neighbor.” Already renewed   for a second season by HBO, the six-part reality show won the 2021 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding

  ALLEN V. FARROW  | First on Showmax | Binge now Co-directed by Oscar nominees Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering ( The Invisible War ),  Allen v. Farrow  goes behind the years of sensational headlines to reveal the private story of one of Hollywood's most notorious and public scandals: the accusation of sexual abuse against four-time Oscar winner Woody Allen ( Midnight in Paris ,  Hannah and her Sisters ,  Annie Hall ) involving Dylan, his then seven-year-old daughter with Golden Globe winner Mia Farrow ( Rosemary’s Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters) ; their subsequent custody trial; the revelation of Allen’s relationship with Farrow’s daughter, Soon-Yi; and the controversial aftermath in the years that followed. Along with new investigative work — pieced together via intimate home movie footage, court documents, police evidence, revelatory videotapes, and never-before-heard audio tapes — HBO’s  four-part documentary series includes exclusive interviews on the subject with Mia, Dylan and Rona