JUNESPLOITATION: Street Wars (1991) (opens in new tab)

DAY 19. Black Filmmakers! To understand Street Wars, you have to understand the man behind the curtain: Jamaa Fanaka. He was part of the famous L.A. Rebellion at UCLA alongside guys like Charles Burnett and Julie Dash, but while they went high-art, Fanaka went straight for the exploit-o-meter. He gave us the Penitentiary trilogy and […]