Universal’s Queen & Slim doesn’t open in theaters until the week of Thanksgiving (November 27), but the film written by Lena Waithe and directed by Melina Matsoukas is already causing a buzz as part ...

Screenwriter Lena Waithe discusses her new film "Queen & Slim." “Queen & Slim" is Emmy award-winning screenwriter Lena Waithe's first script for a feature film. The movie follows a man and woman on a ...

Black Hollywood were out for the Queen & Slim screenings that filmmakers Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas held around the country this week. The duo’s first feature film made its first stop a The ...

*The Universal Pictures film “Queen & Slim“ is a complex story layered with love, blackness, angst and social impact. The screenplay was written and produced by Emmy winner Lena Waithe and stars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. On the surface, a film hyped as a “black ‘Bonnie and Clyde'” written and directed by ...

On an unseasonably chilly March afternoon in Holy Cross, New Orleans, Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe and first-time feature film director Melina Matsoukas are peering at a monitor surveying the ...

Lena Waithe hit the Essence Fest to show a 13-minute clip of her provocative new film ‘Queen & Slim’ about a fatal police encounter and spoke about the impact of producing a piece of art that silences ...

Emmy winner Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas were on hand at the 25th annual Essence Festival to present the first 13-minutes of the forthcoming feature, Queen and Slim. The Universal ...

Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas are, respectively, the writer and director of “Queen & Slim.” They open up to John Horn about how the traumatic deaths of unarmed black people by police officers ...

The first-time feature writer and director reflect on the rarity of an experience that allowed them to make the film they wanted. On the surface, a film hyped as a “black ‘Bonnie and Clyde'” written ...