Jamaa Fanaka Trailers
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted TrailerA Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan Trailer
Jamaa Fanaka was an American filmmaker. He is best known for his 1979 film, Penitentiary, and is one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion film movement. The L.A. Rebellion film movement, sometimes referred to as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to the new generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late-1960s to the late-1980s and have created a quality Black Cinema that provides an alternative to classical Hollywood cinema. Fanaka died on April 1, 2012.
Most Popular Jamaa Fanaka Trailers
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01 April 1991
A young man takes over as the head of a crack dealing outfit after his brother, the gang's leader, is murdered.
12 November 1976
A naive young woman moves from the South to stay with her aunt and uncle in Compton. As an outsider, she struggles at first to find her footing, but soon falls into the middle of a community of rebellious youth.
01 December 1979
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed.
02 April 1982
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.
04 September 1987
A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.
01 January 1972
Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust” presented with a non-synchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly (1972).
21 November 1975
After wrongly doing time in prison for murder, a man seeks revenge on a racist law enforcement system and the detective who framed him.
31 December 2004
Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s.
