{"id":3027,"date":"2023-02-20T06:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T06:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2025-01-05T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:34:35","slug":"3027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/3027\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History | Rise Celestial Studios Honors Oscar Devereaux Micheaux"},"content":{"rendered":"

He set the precedent. At a time where the motion picture industry was only covering stories told for and by a certain demographic other than Black, Oscar stood alone and challenged the status quo<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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He is my hero, a role model and a pioneer. The first Black independent filmmaker who paved the way for everyone else to carry the torch and set ablaze the entire movie industry.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2013 CEO of Rise Celestial Studios Honors Oscar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oscar Devereaux Micheaux<\/strong>(US<\/a>: \/m\u026a\u02c8\u0283o\u028a\/<\/a> (listen<\/a>); January 2, 1884 \u2013 March 25, 1951) was an African-American<\/a> author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company<\/a> was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film<\/a>, and has been described as \u201cthe most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century\u201d. He produced both silent films<\/a> and sound films.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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