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…

Our collab event during #WomensHistoryMonth w/ BlackStar Projects & Philly Film Office feat SIFTer Bettina Escauriza film TONIGHT, WE EAT FLOWERS & her post discussion:
'Fall in Love, Not in Line: The Subversive Power of Comedy & Romance in Film'
Thanks FederalDonuts

A powerful historical slingshot into the brutal power of Police in America - POWER

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Experiencing Jason Fitzroy Jeffers work-in-process ‘The First Plantation’ is a spiritual investigation into the haunted legacy of the 13th smallest country in the world, its oversized and often-overlooked impact on modern history, & its undeniable claim for reparations 😮 #Greavesseminar

🎥Shout out to BlackStar BlackStar Projects for the wonderful 2024 William & Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar. The Seminar was in partnership with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts IDA Stanford. The presenters had interesting projects. I left with great ideas. #GreavesSeminar

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Saw Raven Jackson at BlackStar Projects seminar at Stanford this past weekend talk about this film and why it is the way it is. She called the scenes “portraits” and said there was only 60 pages for the script. She is brilliant and so gracious. Please watch this film, it’s 🔥

Conversation with 𝚄𝚛𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝙻𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚐 at #greavesseminar #keepingitreal

First session at #GreavesSeminar by BlackStar Projects with Clenched Fist Prod. 1.living Adrian Burrell and Andrés Cediel

Get your your hands on #Seen006 , featuring over 200 beautifully designed pages filled with gorgeous photography and thoughtful analysis and critique on film, art and visual culture. By and For Us.

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