Hey all, it's Brittany, and this is for Colored Nerds, the weekly show where we peel back the layers of black culture that we rarely discuss in mixed company.

This week, Eric and I chatted with Maya Kade, the creator of the Black Film Archive.

We got into why she started the collection, what it means to be a black film, and how looking

into our cinematic past may have the answers we've been seeking in the present.

Let's get into it.

All right, so first, before we do this, I think it's the first time we actually really get to do this. And probably everybody else is going to feel very, I feel very annoyed. But we have a fellow Howard alum on the clock.

Yay. Got to celebrate. Shout out. H.U. You know. We won't be. You know. Exactly.

You know.

Y'all can't see us, but we're doing, there's a little hand thing.

Everybody's doing.

I'm doing the hand thing.

But no, seriously.

Maya, welcome.

Welcome.

I'm going to tell people a bit about you real quick.

You tell me if I got it right. right? You are in audience development strategist at the Criterion Collection. And for folks

we might not know, the Criterion Collection is a media company that has committed itself to

licensing, restoring, and distributing important and classic and contemporary films. We're going to get

to the good stuff in a second. There's something else. But before we get there, could you just

tell us a little bit about what you do do at

criteria?

Yeah, sure.

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