Le mouvement cinématographique de L.A. Rebellion, parfois appelé Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers, ou la UCLA Rebellion fait référence à la génération de jeunes cinéastes africains et afro-américains qui ont étudié à la UCLA Film School de la fin des années 1960 à la fin des années 1980. Ils ont créé un cinéma noir de qualité offrant une alternative au cinéma hollywoodien classique[1],[2],[3],[4],[5].
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- « L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema », Los Angeles, California, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television (consulté le ) : « Beginning in the late 1960s, a number of promising African and African-American students entered the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, recruited under a concerted initiative to be more responsive to various communities of color. From that first class through the late 1980s, and continuing well beyond their college days, these filmmakers came to represent the first sustained undertaking to forge an alternative Black Cinema practice in the United States. Along the way, they created fascinating, provocative and visionary films that have earned an impressive array of awards and accolades at festivals around the world, in addition to blazing new paths into the commercial market. »
- Hornaday, « From L.A. Hotbed, Black Filmmakers' Creativity Flowered », Washington Post, (consulté le ) : « In 1967, after studying electrical engineering at Los Angeles Community College, Burnett arrived at UCLA to study film. For the next 10 years, UCLA students would develop a fecund, cosmopolitan and politically engaged movement that came to be unofficially known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. »
- « The L.A. Rebellion », Film Reference (consulté le ) : « Armed with a knowledge of "traditional" film history now infused with an introduction to the Third Cinema movement and exposure to revolutionary films from Latin America and Africa, these filmmakers took advantage of their "outsider" positioning, reinvigorating the push for a politically driven cinema... »
- (en) John Patterson, « L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema », sur www.laweekly.com, LA weekly,