Awards

Jury Award for Non-Fiction Feature, Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ Film Festival

Best Documentary Nominee, SXSW

Special Presentation, Hot Docs

Honorable Mention for Audience Award, Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ Film Festival

Reviews

“Empowering… Assembly is a loud and proud assertion from a community that refuses to be dismissed anymore.”
– POV Magazine


“The work of artist Rashaad Newsome, [creates] a new space for Black and queer culture.”
– Jazz Tangcay, Abigail Lee, Matt Minton, Lauren Coates, Variety


“Assembly is Olympic-level, award-winning, *best of the best* contemporary art of our time. The film provokes critical thought, invokes predecessors and spirits, and invites viewers to bring themselves into Rashaad Newsome’s work. Newsome’s profound love and acceptance is a model of interconnected healing. I was visually and spiritually dazzled and I will never be the same.”
– Zackary Drucker, Artist/Activist


“Ambitious”
– Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire


“A visually stunning and thought-provoking cinematic journey that reimagines art as a tool for resistance and community-building.”
– Jamie Broadnax, Black Girl Nerds


“Newsome, as a main character, is compelling – an artist pouring the deepest parts of himself into his work and who genuinely believes in the power of it to elicit healing and change.”
– Alejandra Martinez, The Austin Chronicle