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William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar

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A photo of a group of people sitting together, one is looking at a journal and reading from it to the ground. There others appear to be listening intently.
Seminar

William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar 2025

A seminar for Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists working in cinematic realms, hosted by BlackStar. Registration open now.

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Festival

BlackStar Film Festival 2025

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.

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Screening

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl Special Screening

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.

A still from Allumuah shows a Black man dressed in all white standing still, around her are children all with their hands raised in the sky.
Screening

Lose Your Mother: Shorts

An evening of short films exploring ancestral connections through time and space at the ICA Boston.

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Film Series

Love + Time Film Series

BlackStar-curated screenings co-presented with the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, taking place across both venues this fall and winter.

Screening

The Time is Always Now: Naked Acts

A special screening of Bridgett M. Davis' Naked Acts. This program is in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the exhibition, Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure.

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Screening

All About Love: Shorts (Kinship)

Kinship is the focus of today’s short films, which include Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (2012), Mickalene Thomas’s directorial debut. These films explore the idea that what is past is also present and celebrate the art created by Black people across time.