{"id":44435,"date":"2019-02-19T23:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=44435"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:32:54","slug":"hugh-hefners-after-dark-speaking-out-in-america2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=44435","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hefner\u2019s After Dark: Speaking Out in America(2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Benji Bearman.  Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-11.53.18-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44436\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-11.53.18-PM-325x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"192\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-11.53.18-PM-325x192.png 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-11.53.18-PM-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-11.53.18-PM-1024x605.png 1024w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-11.53.18-PM.png 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival a documentary film that stuck out to me as one I didn\u2019t want to miss was \u201cHugh Hefner\u2019s After Dark: Speaking Out in America\u201d(2018),<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>directed by Bridgette Berman. This film illustrates the backstory of icon Hugh Hefner\u2019s prolific TV Series, \u201cPlayboy\u2019s Penthouse\u201d and Playboy After Dark.\u201d Entering the show it seemed as if we were arriving at a private party inside Hugh\u2019s apartment. Hefner seized the opportunity to bring current acts to television. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hugh was always cutting edge in the way he carried himself and hip in his beliefs. His show was the first time black performers were openly invited on TV and treated as well, people. He welcomed the likes of Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., Jimi Hendrix and even hosted Nina Simone\u2019s tv debut. Not only did he invite black performers but interracial music groups as well. Hugh thought that you cant segregate music and that everyone should be listening to each other. People that were blacklisted on other networks Hugh brought on. The fight for civil rights of the 1960\u2019s has come full circle and is back again today in 2019, and for this we cannot stand for. We must speak our mind if we dare. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Benji Bearman. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2019. During the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival a documentary film that stuck out to me as one I didn\u2019t want to miss was \u201cHugh Hefner\u2019s After Dark: Speaking Out in America\u201d(2018),\u00a0 directed by Bridgette Berman. This film illustrates the backstory of icon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,337],"tags":[355,354,353,356],"class_list":["post-44435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2019","tag-after-dark","tag-hugh-hefner","tag-santa-barbara-international-film-festival-2019","tag-speaking-out-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44443,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435\/revisions\/44443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}