📣 Heads up, applications for the Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab close tomorrow! Submit yours: blackstarfest.org/lab/

Applications for the Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab, our year-long fellowship for emerging and mid-career filmmakers of color in Greater Philly, close in one week on Thursday, May 23!

Learn more + submit: blackstarfest.org/lab/

.Bryn Mawr Film will be screening The Five Heartbeats with Be Reel Black Cinema Club and Micheaux Mission hosting a talkback - June 13 at 7pm. FREE TIX AVAILABLE - just email [email protected] and mention BlackStar ✨

Volunteer at the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival! Get a behind-the-scenes look into festival operations, network with like-minded individuals, and have fun while supporting our work to champion filmmakers of color.

Applications open until June 20: blackstarfest.org/festival/get-i… #BSFF24

Spread the word! Passes are on sale for the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival, our annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of Black, Brown & Indigenous communities.✨

There's a limited quantity available at the early bird rate: blackstarfest.org/festival/passe…

BlackStar and Points North Institute have combined forces to offer the first ever North Star Fellowship! A fellowship for Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists who are developing projects that span the latitudes of creative non-fiction.

✨Apply: pointsnorthinstitute.org/artist-program…

This Thursday at 6PM! Free RSVP: blackstarfest.org/events/screeni…

Join us this Thursday, April 25 at 6PM for an exclusive advance screening of POWER, a new documentary that traces the accumulation of money, consolidation of power, and the nearly unrestricted bipartisan support for policing institutions.

Register here: blackstar.eventive.org/schedule/660da…

We're been reflecting on the vibrant legacy of Faith Ringgold. Among her many accomplishments, she co-founded Where We At, a collective for Black Women Artists with Kay Brown & Dindga McCannon. Read more about it in this 2022 interview with Dindga: blackstarfest.org/seen/read/obse…

We are geeked to be on MovieMaker Magazine's 50 festivals worth the entry fee list again this year! Check out the amazing fests featured: moviemaker.com/50-film-festiv…

BIG CONGRATS to the BlackStar Alumni 2024 Guggenheim Fellows! 🍾🌟

Deborah Thomas
Loira Limbal Loira Limbal (she/her)
Jessica Beshir
Garrett Bradley GarrettBradleyFilms
Crystal Kayiza

gf.org/announcements/

We have just opened up applications for our 2024 BlackStar Pitch! Apply to pitch your short film to a panel of judges for the chance to win our largest prize to date: $75,000 cash, mentorship from Multitude films, feedback from us & passes to CIFF!
blackstarfest.org/festival/pitch/

Heads up! Today is the last day to submit to #BSFF24 📽️
blackstarfest.org/festival/submi…

In an essay on archival impulses for #Seen002 , writer Tzutzumatzin Soto ponders autonomous storytelling practices and the meaning of the archived image.
blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issu…

A year ago I finished production on my Directorial debut, with my BlackStar Projects Fellowship experimental short, “All That’s Left,” (2023).
Director/DP: 👋🏾
Producer: Steph.

Submissions for #BSFF24 close on Monday! Don't miss this chance to screen alongside some of today's best indie filmmakers! Learn more and submit: blackstarfest.org/festival/submi…