The critically acclaimed documentary, The Black List, premieres on HBO tonight

(August 25, 2008) The premiere airing of the HBO documentary, The Black List, takes places tonight at 9 pm (ET).

Part of a multimedia initiative, The Black List: Volume One is the brainchild of renowned portrait photographer/filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and acclaimed NPR radio host, journalist and former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell (above), with Greenfield-Sanders directing and Mitchell conducting the interviews.

Mitchell, by design, is never seen on camera or heard, a strategy that allows the subjects' own voices to remain the focus. The actual title of the film itself, The Black List, was first conceived by Mitchell as an answer to the persistent taint that western culture has applied to the word "black."

The Black List's interviewees come from a diverse collection of disciplines from the worlds of the arts, sports, politics, business and government, and include, in order of appearance: Toni Morrison, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Vernon Jordan, Faye Wattleton, Marc Morial, Serena Williams, Lou Gossett Jr., Lorna Simpson, former Negro League Baseball star, Mahlon Duckett; best-selling erotic author and publisher; Zane; the Rev. Al Sharpton, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, Thelma Golden, Sean Combs, former Assistant Secretary of State, Susan Rice; Chris Rock, Suzan-Lori Parks, Richard Parsons, Dawn Staley and Bill T. Jones.

The Black List: Volume One made its world premiere at 2008's Sundance Film Festival; Variety called it "an impeccably mounted survey of voices from across the spectrum of African-American accomplishment...a rich and revealing work of portraiture."

This film is part of a multimedia initiative titled "The Black List Project," conceived by Greenfield-Sanders and Mitchell and comprised of the HBO documentary, a museum exhibition of photographic portraits, a book of those photographs, and an interactive educational program.


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