Shaka King

The partners behind Under the Influence Productions discuss their approach to making indie film and TV in an evolving environment, including FX series "The Lowdown," 2026 Sundance premiere "The Weight," and recent Oscar nominee "Blue Moon." 

In this week’s episode of The Envelope podcast, the “Sentimental Value” star reflects on growing up onscreen and following in big sister Dakota Fanning’s footsteps. 

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a Q&A with Shaka King, director of Judas and the Black Messiah, moderated by Eugene Hernandez, Film at Lincoln Center’s Deputy Executive Director of Programs. Fred Hampton, a young, charismatic activist, becomes Cha ...  Show more

Proximity, 99% Invisible, and Warner Bros. present the “Judas and the Black Messiah Podcast,” an official film companion from the Radiotopia podcast network fro ...

This week, we’re joined by David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel, writers of 2018’s incredible BlacKkKlansman. Directed by the one and only Spike Lee, the film told the true-life tale of Ron Stallworth – a Black police detective working in 1970s Colorado, who attempted to infil ...

This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a special roundtable from the 58th New York Film Festival on a pair of intimate, rarely seen portraits of two towering figures of American history: Terrence Dixon’s Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris and Willia ...  Show more