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BlackStar Projects, home of the annual BlackStar Film Festival, celebrates and provides platforms for visionary Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists.

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RT @215tayyib: BlackStar 10th Anniversary Print Sale Limited edition prints for sale to raise money for BlackStar Projects, in celebration…

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We’re celebrating a decade of BlackStar in 2021!

We’re celebrating a decade of BlackStar in 2021! And we made it this far because of all of you. From festival attendees to childcare providers to artists and filmmakers — all of your contributions have been so vital!⁠
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BlackStar is fertile ground; this year we’re blossoming with newly expanded staff, a free filmmaker seminar this month, issue two of @seen_journal, a variety of other year-round programming, and of course our 10th Annual Film Festival. For those who are able, you can help sustain this work with a financial contribution of $10 (or more) in honor of our 10th anniversary! ⁠
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Thank you all for helping BlackStar shine on and continue to create space for Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists! ⁠⁠
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blackstarfest.org/donate (link in bio)⁠
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[Image Descriptions: A graphic titled "Help BlackStar Shine!" asks for support for BlackStar's work celebrating and providing platforms for visionary Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists. The call to action is surrounded by flowers placed against a yellow background. The second slide is a quote from Marcia Smith, which reads "I think [BlackStar] is really groundbreaking in that...they have cultivated probably the most diverse film fan base of any festival that I've seen, and I've been to a million festivals."]

@fabricworkshop and BlackStar are proud to present

The season finale of #BlackStarLive is this Friday

“The level of variety of Black stories takes the

“The level of variety of Black stories takes the pressure off me. It means that one Black story or storyteller isn’t carrying the load of Black existence.” - @radhamusprime, director of @fortyyearoldversionfilm (#BSFF20), on seeing @cgpeoples' @juneteenthmovie (#BSFF20) ⁠⁠
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Read @ange814's full interview with Radha and Channing, at the link in bio!⁠⁠
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[Image Descriptions: First slide is a screenshot of an article at @variety titled "Filmmakers Radha Blank and Channing Godfrey Peoples on Fighting to Tell Stories That Celebrate Black Women," by Angelique Jackson, featuring a photo of both Blank and Peoples. The second slide is another screenshot of a portion of the article, which can be read at the link in bio.]

“Just because we all do something a certain way

“Just because we all do something a certain way doesn’t mean we have to keep doing it, especially if it’s oppressive or exclusive. I’m not going to let people tell me that that’s not how it works. Because how it works was designed to not include me.” - @shataramichelleford talks to @moviemakermag about the path to making TEST PATTERN, which opens today via @kinolorber. ⁠⁠
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Shatara's film premiered at BlackStar in 2019, where it won the Lionsgate/Starz Producer Award! #BSFF19 ⁠⁠
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Link in bio to the full article and watch the film this weekend via kinolorber.com.⁠⁠
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[Image Descriptions: A screenshot of an article at MovieMaker magazine titled "Shatara Michelle Ford Made Test Pattern by Rejecting Old Ways 'Designed to Not Include Me'" which includes a photo of the director. Second slide is a brief trailer for the film Test Pattern.]

“I have to create and be a part of the change th

Tune in TOMORROW, 2/19, at 9 ET for another episod

The second print in our year-long 10th Anniversary

The second print in our year-long 10th Anniversary Print Sale is from @louis.massiah — and it's now available at blackstarfest.org/anniversary! ⁠⁠
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Louis Massiah⁠⁠
Aquarian 1998⁠⁠
2020, from the Aquarian Series* ⁠⁠
11 x 8.5 in. ⁠⁠
EDITION OF 30⁠⁠
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*The Aquarian series is part of an annual ritual of Massiah, creating a self-portrait yearly, that has carried out over the past 51 years.⁠⁠
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Louis Massiah (BSFF20) is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the @scribevideocenter in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides production workshops to community groups and emerging independent media makers. As an educator and institution builder, Massiah has developed media production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 107 collaboratively produced documentaries; the Muslim Voices of Philadelphia community history project, the Great Migration - A City Transformed and a current project The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets. As a director, Massiah’s award-winning documentaries include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, and A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown, broadcast on television and screened at festivals in the US, Europe and Africa.⁠⁠
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Read more about Louis and the sale at the link in bio!⁠⁠
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Purchases of this limited edition print support BlackStar as we celebrate a decade of our annual film festival. A new print from a festival alum will be unveiled on the 15th of every month for the rest of the year. 🎉⁠⁠
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#BlackStar10⁠⁠
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[Image Descriptions: First slide is a graphic for "Aquarian 1998" by Louis Massiah, a self-portrait drawn on February 3, 1998 at 10:56 pm. In the bottom left corner it reads "Kitchen 1507 - David is here." The second slide advertises BlackStar 10th Anniversary Print Sale, surrounded by confetti and stars.]

From February 17 to 26 Ambulante presents “Afrov

From February 17 to 26 Ambulante presents “Afrovisiones: Trayectorias de la negritud en el Estados Unidos,” an online series dedicated to documentary film about the African diaspora in the United States.⁠⁠
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Curated by our own @maorikarmael, we're proud to be partnering with @ambulanteac on the "Migration and Memory" program as part of this series, which will be available via @filminlatino for those in Mexico from the 19th to the 21st. ⁠⁠
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Link in bio for more info!⁠⁠ Films featured include:

Bereka Nesanet Teshager Etiopía, Estados Unidos 2019

Funde a tecno Jenn Nkiru Reino Unido 2019

Oklahoma es negro Melinda James, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Estados Unidos 2019

T Keisha Rae Witherspoon Estados Unidos 2019

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Original post from Ambulante:⁠⁠
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A partir del 19 de febrero y por 48 horas estará disponible en @filminlatino el Programa 2 de 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨, curado por el @blackstarfest de Filadelfia y su fundadora @maorikarmael. Lo conforman historias de migración, familia, herencia y música que formaron parte de uno de los foros más importantes para el cine hecho por y para la afrodescendencia en Estados Unidos. 🇺🇸⁠⁠
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~ Toda la información en el link de nuestra Bio.⁠⁠
Disponible para público en México.⁠⁠
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#Afrofebrero #blackhistorymonth #blackdocumentary⁠⁠
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[Image Descriptions: Posters advertise the "Migration and Memory" series part of the Afrovisones program, which includes the films Bereka, Oklahoma Es Negro, Funde A Techno, and T.]⁠⁠

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