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By Indie Means Necessary

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

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TONIGHT! Join us outside @ Eakins Oval for the fir TONIGHT! Join us outside @ Eakins Oval for the first of four FREE outdoor screenings this week. Bring your friends, and your mask! There will be food trucks!⁠ ⁠ This evening we're showing Tracey Deer's BEANS, which is also available on our watch platform for the next 24 hours.⁠ ⁠ The screening is happening across from @philamuseum, where festival pass holders get a discount on admission all week! Instructions on activating this discount will be sent tomorrow to pass holders.⁠ ⁠ BlackStar @ Eakins Oval (All films start at 8 pm ET)⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ AUG 4 ⁠⁠ Beans⁠⁠ dir. by @traceydeer ⁠⁠ In partnership with @metoomvmt⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠AUG 5 ⁠⁠ Eyimofe (This is My Desire)⁠⁠ dir. by @nepahastakenlight & @chukoesiri ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ AUG 6 ⁠⁠ Shorts: Phototropism⁠⁠ Abundance, dir. by @scoutallen⁠⁠ ⁠Gales. dir. by @ingredible__ & Tshay⁠⁠ ⁠Friendzone L.A. dir. by @angelkristiwms (Director)⁠⁠ ⁠I Like It Here dir. by @aka_tei (Director)⁠⁠ ⁠The Price of Cheap Rent dir. by @amino_mae & @pocarinightsweats ⁠⁠ ⁠Mercury Afrograde dir. by @enakaworld ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ AUG 7⁠⁠ ⁠B*tchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James ⁠⁠ dir. by Sacha Jenkins⁠ Co-presented by @showtime⁠ ⁠ ---⁠ ⁠ [Image Description: An animated GIF advertises free evening screenings during the 10th BlackStar Film Festival, 8 pm ET @ Eakins Oval. Line-up listed above.]⁠ ⁠
We've got four LIVE panels happening today! Head o We've got four LIVE panels happening today! Head over to the link in our bio to stream the first of this week's conversations. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Glitch and the Moving Image: August 4 @ 2PM ET⁠⁠ Co-presented by @mediajustice ⁠⁠ With Legacy Russell, Cameron A. Granger, E. Jane and Jazmin Jones; moderated by Imran Siddiquee⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Nuotama Bodomo and Fox Maxy in Conversation With Tina Campt: August 4 @ 12 PM ET⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Composers Roundtable: August 4 @ 4 PM ET⁠⁠ With Sultana Isham, Jlin, Tamar-Kali, and Amanda Jones; moderated by Dave “DJ lil’ dave” Adams⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Sacha Jenkins in Conversation with Dyana Williams:⁠⁠ August 4 @ 6 PM ET⁠⁠ Co-presented by @showtime⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ [Image Description: graphics announcing panels for the first day of the BlackStar Film Festival with information on the date, time, and panelists as written in the caption above.]
The 10th annual BlackStar Film Festival is officia The 10th annual BlackStar Film Festival is officially underway! ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ We have a stacked lineup for you today, beginning right now with the Shorts Program "Duology," which will be available to stream for 24 hours. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Then join us for the first panel of the festival, "Nuotama Bodomo and Fox Maxy in Conversation With Tina Campt" at 12 pm ET.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Plus the WORLD PREMIERE of STRENGTH (Ska´yaa), directed by Jorge Díaz Sánchez, a feature documentary about Indigenous kids in the Oaxaca highlands discovering their capacity to dream through basketball. Also at 12 pm ET and also available for 24 hours after its premiere time! ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ All streaming at watch.blackstarfest.org, as well as in the BlackStar Film Fest app, available on mobile and TV. Full schedule and tickets at the link in bio!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #BlackStar10 #bsff21
Who's ready for BlackStar!? The 10th festival kick Who's ready for BlackStar!? The 10th festival kicks off TODAY with the first episode of The Daily Jawn — our very own morning show co-hosted by BlackStar founder @maorikarmael and artist @rashidzakat, w/ @lildave215 keeping the beat. Today they'll be joined by special guest host Laiya St Clair (@laiyasworld of @lovegritphilly) as they preview day one at the festival!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Featuring interviews with EYIMOFE filmmakers @chukoesiri and Arie Esiri (@nepahastakenlight), festival panelist and composer @sultana.isham, plus a BlackStar x Trashterpiece Theater collaboration by @visionpoet himself. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Watch live at 9:30a EST on our Facebook page (link in bio) in the official festival app, or via blackstarfest.org/thedailyjawn⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Presented by @PBS and @worldchannel⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Let's go!!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #BSFF21 #BlackStar10⁠⁠ #byindiemeansnecessary —- ⁠⁠ [Image Descriptions: A carousel advertises the first episode of The Daily Jawn, Aug 4, 9:30 am ET Live on Facebook. It includes the host and guest information listed above, as well as photos of Laiya St. Clair, Arie and Chuko Esiri, and Sultana Isham. These words and images appear above the 10th BlackStar Film Festival logo and navy 1s and 0s floating against pink.]⁠⁠
The 10th BlackStar Film Festival starts tomorrow m The 10th BlackStar Film Festival starts tomorrow morning! And everyone's talking about it. 😏 Have you got your tickets yet??⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "BlackStar is a place where new films are conceived." - Peter Crimmins, "BlackStar Film Festival Returns For Its 10th year," in @whyy⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "As It Turns 10, the BlackStar Film Festival Continues to Be More Than Just ‘the Black Sundance’" by Tambay Obenson for @IndieWire⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ “A great strength of BlackStar’s is that it connects filmmakers with their ideal audiences —people whose experiences these films speak directly to—and that has always been very appealing both to audiences and to filmmakers.” - Maori Karmael Holmes, in @ThePhiladelphiaCitizen⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read the WHYY article at the link and join us tomorrow for the first day of festivities! Tickets and passes available at the link too!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #BlackStar10 #BSFF21⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ---⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ [Image Descriptions: A carousel of text-based cards show off the quotes listed above, all related to the 10th BlackStar Film Festival, with colorful 1s and 0s floating in the background.]⁠⁠
Live w MISS PANAMA directors. MISS PANAMA director Live w MISS PANAMA directors. MISS PANAMA directors Lamar Bailey Karamañites, Pascale Boucicaut, and David Felix Sutcliffe. Catch the film August 5 @ 4 PM ET as part of the Shorts: Physiography program online! Tickets at the link in bio (or directly at blackstarfest.org/festival/events/shorts-physiography) #BlackStar10 #BSFF21
We're excited to welcome Nuotama Bodomo (@motherto We're excited to welcome Nuotama Bodomo (@mothertongue.mp4), Fox Maxy (@laurab1tch), and Tina Campt as part of our virtual #BSFF21 programming! You can watch their conversation, presented by @opensocietyfoundations, live on Facebook tomorrow at 12 PM ET. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "Nuotama Bodomo (Afronauts, Boneshaker, Everybody Dies!, Random Acts of Flyness) and Fox Maxy (San Diego, Maat Means Land, Watertight, Petroleum Jelly) invite us to repattern and relisten, to retune and reimagine the sensory experience through their works. Join these innovative and genre-bending artists in conversation with Tina Campt, Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, as they discuss their practices of drawing from Indigenous sensibilities to break cinematic form and tap into ancestral ways of knowing and being in the creative process."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Head to the link in our bio to RSVP or join us at watch.blackstarfest.org. All #BlackStar10 panels are free to watch, but you can purchase a festival pass to access 80 films online or through our app from August 4-8. ⁠⁠ #byindiemeansnecessary ⁠⁠ [Image Description: Four graphics advertising a panel for the BlackStar Film Festival. Information about this event can be found in the text above. The last three graphics include headshots of the panelists.]
Live w/ director Blanche Akonchong. Conversation w Live w/ director Blanche Akonchong. Conversation with the Director of “Mercury Afrograde” @enakaworld, by @lendltellington. Screening August 6 In-person: 8pm @ Eakins Oval Virtual: 10am @ watch.blackstarfest.org #BSFF21 #BlackStar10
Join us for our last round of #BSFF21 IG Live inte Join us for our last round of #BSFF21 IG Live interviews before this week's festival!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ At 12 PM EST, we'll be in conversation with director @enakaworld on the film "Mercury Afrograde" (@mercuryafrograde).⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Then, join us again at 4:30 as we speak with co-directors @lamar_iposa, Pascale Boucicaut, and David Felix Sutcliffe on their film "Miss Panama" (@misspanamafilm).⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ You can catch "Mercury Afrograde" as a part of Shorts Program: Physiography on August 5 at 4 PM EST. "Miss Panama" will be screening on August 6 at 10 AM EST during Shorts Program: Phototropism.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Head to the link in our bio to grab your #BlackStar10 tickets and join us LIVE today!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ [Image Description: Three graphics announcing Instagram Live Conversations with 2021 Black Star Film Festival director Blanche Akonchong (of Mercury Afrograde) and co-directors Lamar Bailey Karamañites, Pascale Boucicaut, and David Felix Sutcliffe (of Miss Panama). Film synopses can be found in this post's alt-text.]

2020 Festival Re-cap

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