Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Film
This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Film.
This award is presented to the directors of the film.
Gordon Douglas (director)
Gordon Douglas( December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five- decade career in motion pictures.
He was a native of New York City.
Anantana Avantara
Anantana Avantara is a 1989 Indian Kannada- language adult comedy film directed by and starring Kashinath.
The movie is a light – hearted comedy about the ordeals of a newly married man.
It set a trend in the comic films in Kannada and established Kashinath as a comic story teller.
However, at the time of release, the met met with several controversies primarily for the taboo subject on which the story was built.
Some even considered the movie to have made a negative impact on the youngsters of that time.
The movie was an average grosser but has since then achieved cult status in the later decades.
The movie also introduced Upendra as the lyrics writer and assistant director.
The movie was remade in Telugu in 2006 as" Please Sorry Thanks".
Them!
Them! is a 1954 American black- and- white science fiction monster film from Warner Bros.
Pictures, produced by David Weisbart, directed by Gordon Douglas, and starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness.
The film is based on an original story treatment by George Worthing Yates, which was then developed into a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman and Russell Hughes.
" Them!" is one of the first of the 1950s" nuclear monster" films, and the first" big bug" feature.
A nest of gigantic irradiated ants is discovered in the New Mexico desert; they quickly become a national threat when it is discovered that two young queen ants and their consorts have escaped to establish new nests.
The national search that follows finally culminates in a battle with" Them" in the concrete spillways and storm drain system of Los Angeles.
List of Turkmenistan films
A list of films produced in Turkmenistan.
Us and Them
Us and Them may refer to:
Us and Them (Shinedown album)
Us and Them is the second studio album by American rock band Shinedown, released on October 4, 2005.
Recorded in Jacksonville, Florida and Sanford, Florida, the album had three singles, two of which," Save Me" and" I Dare You," were used as themes for WWE pay- per-view events" No Mercy 2005" and" WrestleMania 22" respectively.
On March 19th, 2018" Us and Them" was certified Platinum by the RIAA for selling 1 million units in the United States.
" Us and Them" is the last album to feature guitarist Jasin Todd and bassist Brad Stewart.
Kashinath (actor)
Kashinatha Hathwara( 8 May 1951 – 18 January 2018) was an Indian actor and filmmaker who primarily worked in Kannada films.
He worked on Hindi and Malayalam movies.
With a career spanning over three decades, Kashinath worked in over 40 films carving a niche for himself in comedy genre.
He is credited for introducing new talents such as actor Upendra, musician V. Manohar and director Sunil Kumar Desai alongside many other technicians who went on to become successful in Kannada film industry.
Making his debut as a director through the comedy- drama film" Aparoopada Athithigalu"( 1976), Kashinath came into limelight with the suspense thriller" Aparichita"( 1978).
He made his acting debut through the successful film" Anubhava"( 1984).
The same film was remade and directed by him in Hindi as" Anubhav"( 1986), making his Bollywood entry.
His films generally touched subjects which were often regarded as taboo in the Indian society and thus attracted the tag of being vulgar by some critics.
He was more popular for his double entendre dialogues in his films to the extent that most associated the term" double meaning" with Kashinath and many went to the extent of attributing the decline of Kannada films quality to him.
Despite the criticisms faced, his films have influenced the society as well as the industry.
Some of his movie dialogues have entered common lingo; for example the extremely popular phrase of" Mangalooru Manjunatha"( from the film" Love Maadi Nodu").
Some of his other successful films include" Anantana Avantara"( 1989)," Avale Nanna Hendthi"( 1988)," Ajagajantara"( 1991) and" Hendathi Endare Heegarabeku"( 1995).
Kashinath made a prominent return when he was cast as an elderly jail inmate who gets falsely accused in his daughter's death in Tharun Sudhir's" Chowka"( 2017).
His last film performance before his death in 2018, is in under-production film" Ol Muniswamy".
List of Uruguayan films
A list of films produced in Uruguay.
Us and Them (Godflesh album)
Us and Them is the fifth studio album by English band Godflesh.
It was released through Earache Records on 17 May 1999 in Europe and on 8 June 1999 in North America.
As with Godflesh's 1997 remix album" Love and Hate in DubUs and Them" is influenced by breakbeats, drum and bass, oldschool jungle, trip hop and hip hop.
Shortly after" Us and Them's" release, Godflesh frontman Justin Broadrick admitted that he" hated" the album as it was the expression of an" identity crisis".
Years later, he revised his thoughts, saying that his hatred of" Us and Them" was" overstated", and that his main issue in the album lies in its more" cringe- worthy moments."

Question: Are the directors of films Anantana Avantara and Them! both from the same country?
Answer: no