As part of Free First Sunday at the Barnes, BlackStar will be presenting a special screening of the film L.A. BURNING: THE RIOTS 25 YEARS LATER on Sunday, July 2, 2017, at the Barnes Foundation. Director Erik Parker (Nas: Time is Illmatic) and scholar Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (University of Pennsylvania) will discuss the film, which […]

We’re very excited to have a selection of 17 films from the BlackStar catalog streaming on XFINITY’s Streampix channel! Beginning this month catch some past festival favorites and winners—new titles are added weekly. On the partnership, Comcast’s Executive Director of Multicultural Products and Consumer Services, Keesha Boyd, noted, “We’re excited to officially announce we have partnered […]

In case you missed the special public conversation on black aesthetics between legendary director and professor Haile Gerima and filmmaker/scholar John L. Jackson, Jr., during the festival, or if you were there and would like to relive it, you can watch the conversation online. The discussion of politics, love, black aesthetics, philosophy, self-definition, and depictions of the […]