Film Series
Jamaa Fanaka: L.A. Rebel
One of the most daring, subversive, and iconoclastic filmmakers to emerge from the LA Rebellion movement, Jamaa Fanaka mixed blaxploitation genre thrills with explosive socio-political subtext. A true auteur—he wrote, produced, directed, and distributed his first three features while still a student at UCLA—his films are at once unabashedly entertaining and unflinching in their dissection of systemic racism, violence, and black American life.
Fanaka’s surprise-hit prison saga is a visceral gut-punch writ in sweat and blood.
A wrongly imprisoned man gets even in Fanaka’s jaw-dropping blaxploitation-style shocker.
The sequel to Fanaka’s cult classic dives headfirst into pure pulp delirium.
Fanaka creates one of the toughest and most complex black heroines of the 70s.
The berserk final installment in Fanaka’s series.
A man takes over a crack-dealing operation in Fanaka’s take on the urban-jungle gangster genre.