In this guide, you can find our accessibility offerings and considerations for the 2022 BlackStar Film Festival. Please note that this guide is meant to accompany the 2022 BlackStar Program Guide, which has details about locations, showtimes, and more. We encourage all of our attendees — disabled and nondisabled alike — to review this guide. These considerations may affect and even benefit more than just people who currently identify as disabled.

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Industry Passes are available for the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival to pre-approved industry professionals. The cost for a pass is $500. Click here to learn more and apply.

All requests for media credentials must be emailed directly to [email protected]

Please note the following policies:

Credential requests must be submitted by Aug 1 at 5 pm ET to receive advance consideration.
Media credentials will be granted to media personnel on assignment to cover BlackStar events for online and print publications, cable networks and/or radio and television stations. If you are accepted to receive credentials, you will be notified by email with further instructions.

Activating Your Press Pass
If you are approved to cover BlackStar, a confirmation and detailed information regarding your press credentials will be sent to you by email along with instructions for online registration. Once you activate your account you will have access to all films playing online during the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival for an extended period of time, as well as in-person events in Philadelphia. Further information will be sent with confirmed press credentials.

All requests for industry passes must be submitted online. The cost of an Industry Pass this year is $400.

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Please note the following policies:

Credential requests must be submitted by Aug 1 at 5 pm ET to receive advance consideration.
Industry credentials will be granted on a case-by-case basis and submitting the form does not guarantee access to purchasing a pass.

Activating Your Industry Pass
If you are approved, a confirmation and information regarding purchasing a pass will be sent to you by email. Once you purchase your pass you will have access to all films playing during the 2022 BlackStar Film Festival online for an extended period of time (through August 31).

The following virtual screenings are geographically restricted, which means they are only available to watch in the regions designated below.

Conspiracy: United States and outlying islands only

Hazing: United States and outlying islands only

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power: United States and outlying islands only

Mars One: Pennsylvania only

Rewind and Play: Everywhere except New York

Storming Caesars Palace: United States and Outlying islands, except New York and California

Tug of War: Pennsylvania only

Wisdom Gone Wild: United States and outlying islands only

All virtual screenings have a capacity of 500 viewers. If a screening is listed as “sold out” it has reached capacity.

All Access and Virtual Pass holders are encouraged to RSVP for virtual screenings to save their spot.

All individual tickets can be purchased via our schedule at blackstarfest.org/schedule.

All festival attendees must show proof of vaccination and IDs at the door at all venues and for all indoor and outdoor in-person festival events. We would all like to do our part to keep our community safe and healthy. Please bring a physical or digital copy of your proof of vaccination, along with your valid ID. Upon checking vaccination status, you will receive a dated wristband so that you don’t have to show proof of vaccination again that day. We will be asking for your proof of vaccinations and IDs daily, and providing dated wristbands for the full day. Wearing masks is mandatory for all indoor venues, except briefly when eating and drinking; please be mindful of others and keep a distance. Mask wearing during outdoor events is optional but encouraged.

Medical Exemption: If vaccination is not possible, attendees must have a negative PCR test collected within 72 hours of any given event.

Virtual pass holders receive:

• Admission to all virtual screenings
• Access to BlackStar Pitch Session

All Access pass holders receive:

• Admission to all in-person and virtual screenings
• Access to BlackStar Pitch Session
• Admission to all in-person events, including First Friday! at the Barnes Foundation
• Discounted admission to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 3-7, 2022
• Discounted sauna or massage at FORMATION sauna + wellness in the month of August

No. This year’s virtual films will be available to “unlock” 48 hours from their start time.  Within that 48 hour window attendees can begin watching at any time, but once a film begins all attendees have only 24 hours to complete watching.

Please check blackstarfest.org/schedule for the most up to date information and visit watch.blackstarfest.org/help if you require technical assistance.

Any time you purchase an individual ticket, you will receive a confirmation email from Eventive.

Your watch window begins at the time the film is available, and the amount of time you have remaining to press play for that particular film will appear on a counter on that film’s page. Once you press play, you will have 24 hours to complete the screening.

If you purchase a film that is “now playing” and within its availability window, you will receive an email from Eventive immediately. Your watch window will begin immediately and the amount of time you have remaining to press play for that particular film will appear on a counter on that film’s page. Once you press play, you will have 24 hours to complete the screening.

BlackStar is offering ACCESS cardholders individual tickets to the virtual festival and in-person events, for $2.00. To receive the discounted tickets, use the discount code “ACCAR22” at checkout when purchasing an individual ticket. When arriving for an in-person event, you may be asked to present your ACCESS card at entry.

Your pass is immediately available after purchase or at the start of the festival. An All-Access or Virtual Pass will work until the end of the festival on August 7.

Online events, such as panels and conversations, will be available to stream without registration—with the exception of the BlackStar Pitch (details about this event follows). These events will air freely within the Eventive platform and from BlackStar’s YouTube page. Check the website for more information: blackstarfest.org/schedule.

The Daily Jawn is a live in-person nightly show that will also stream online for free.