John Coltrane En Motion
Please join us for a conversation about how Seen issue 010 came together from the editorial, creative, and design process with section editor Camille Acker and art director Leo Brooks, moderated by editor-in-chief Heidi Saman.
For What Now: 2026, BlackStar will curate John Coltrane En Motion: Live Rescoring Diasporic Stories of Migration, an immersive film-and-music experience that explores the emotional, cultural, and spiritual pathways of migration through the sonic universe of John Coltrane.
An annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the global majority—showcasing films by Black, Brown, and Indigenous people from around the world. Join us as we celebrate our 15th anniversary.
As part of the month-long environmental film festival, we will host a screening of Brittany Shyne’s Seeds.
A seminar for Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists working in cinematic realms, hosted by BlackStar. Registration open now.
A short film program and reception curated by BlackStar, hosted in partnership with BAVC Media and the Bay Area Media Maker Summit (BAMMS). This film program brings together a collection of works by Bay Area-based filmmakers and their experiments in texture.
Please join us for food, drinks, and a live conversation between Seen Issue 009 contributors Maya S. Cade, Jenny Yang, and Darol Olu Kae, moderated by editor-in-chief Heidi Saman.
A special screening of Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez's TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing at Vidiots in Los Angeles, followed by a conversation with Massiah moderated by Courtney R. Baker.
BlackStar's annual benefit honoring luminaries in global arts and culture.
This film program brings together a collection of works by Indigenous filmmakers whose practices center cultural memory, sovereignty, and creative resistance.
Please join us for food, drinks, and a live conversation between Seen Issue 009 contributors Nicole G. Young and Bedatri Datta Choudhury, moderated by editor-in-chief Heidi Saman.
A screening is in support of "Palestine Cinema Days" Festival, co-hosted with Filmlab Palestine.
Our annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the global majority. This year's festival will be in-person in Philadelphia and online around the world.
A new performance series and installation from artist Joiri Minaya, curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell.
We are partnering with cinéSPEAK for the Philadelphia premiere of Rashaad Newsome and Johnny Symons’ Assembly
On Saturday, May 24, Seen contributor Imran Siddiquee will do a reading of their new essay, published in issue 008 of the journal, "The Will to Dream: Patriarchy and the limits of our cinematic imagination," followed by a moderated conversation.
Please join us for an intimate conversation between this issue's guest editor, artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, and founding editor Maori Karmael Holmes. They will discuss Hopinka's influences, including some of the films that shaped his point of view
A seminar for Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists working in cinematic realms, hosted by BlackStar. Registration open now.
This special program, focusing on altered states, the occult, liminal worlds and liminal beings.
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.
BlackStar-curated screenings co-presented with the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, taking place across both venues this fall and winter.
An evening of short films exploring ancestral connections through time and space at the ICA Boston.