Join us for the Seen 008 Launch Party
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 new performance series and installation from artist Joiri Minaya, curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell.
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 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.
BlackStar's annual benefit honoring luminaries in global arts and culture.
The checkpoint is closed: “Detour, detour!” shouts a taxi driver, announcing the beginning of yet another uncertain search for a way around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank.
Celebrate the launch of our latest issue with guest editor Ja’Tovia Gary, lite bites, music and dancing.