Tressie Magazine Issue 1:
Yes, it’s been a harrowing but rewarding ride! First, the old Vivid.ID Magazine was re-launched as Tressie Magazine –named after the first documented African American woman to write, direct and film a movie (“A Woman’s Error”) in 1922.
Then the crazy part happened!
When we were ready to launch on time, the design files just decided “they weren’t having ‘it’” and were corrupted.
*Sigh*
Not one to be daunted by anything, I went about restructuring and reassembling the magazine. It won’t disappoint!
Tressie Magazine is pretty and informative! Where else can you find an insightful article on avant garde filmmaker Shy Pacheco Hamilton, or here about one woman’s attempt to make a film in the madness of Nollywood?
Where else would you find a magazine that features sisters with natural hair for four full pages?
As the founder, director and curator –and now editor– I didn’t want the magazine to end up as yet another over printed magazine that wastes money, time, and precious trees, just for the sake of saying it’s a magazine.
I decided to give you, the reader, an opportunity to read (and download!) the magazine… for FREE!! If you like the look and feel of the magazine and just have to have a print version to show off on your coffee table, then you also have the option of ordering your copy through MagCloud, HP’s ingenious print-on-demand magazine service! (You’ll have to sign up [for FREE] to access the free PDF version…it also helps us to keep track of how many people are actually downloading/reading the magazine.)
Tressie Magazine is not another Black woman’s magazine that’s telling you “how to get a man” or cluttering up your space with ads for perms and body shapers. It’s a magazine about what Black women from around the world are doing in film, television and media.
Now, you too can have insightful articles that dissect, de-construct, analyze and praise films that impact you!
Why Did I Start This Magazine?
I got seriously tired of reading film magazines geared toward auteurs and analyzers and not seeing one film by and/or about Black women, or Black people in general –like we don’t make films that matter.
I also found that any film by or about a Black woman was seriously lacking in any real depth and usually was relegated to a profile piece about the filmmaker.
I want to read –and see documentaries– that critique, analyze, and create thought-provoking comments, about Black women filmmakers and Black women in film, television and media. I want issues that impact us to be given as much time as the global analyzing of Fellini, the French New Wave, Spanish horror, Scorsese, 60′s realism, feminist neo-realism, and 70′s gore.
I want the reader to interested in our film, film movement, and filmmakers.
Hopefully you will.
You can read, download or purchase Tressie Magazine at MagCloud at: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/178059/follow
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