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By Indie Means Necessary

The BlackStar Film Festival is an annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and of global indigenous communities, showcasing films by black people from around the world.

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  • BlackStar alumna @missnuma will be premiering her film #jezebelmovie at this year’s #sxsw! Based on true story: in the last days of her mother’s life, 19-year-old Tiffany crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment. In order to make ends meet, her sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of fetish cam girls.
  • THREE DAYS until the early submission deadline for this year’s festival! Click the link in our bio @blackstarfest to submit! ____________________________________________ BlackStar Film Festival returns to Philadelphia, Aug 1-4, 2019! ____________________________________________ 🌟 Early Deadline: 02/22/19 🌟 Preferred Deadline: 03/29/19 🌟 Late Deadline: 04/26/2019 ____________________________________________ #bsff19 #byindiemeansnecessary #blackstarfilmfest #filmfestival #indiefilm #blackdirectors #blackcinema
  • "One of the things that I love about filmmaking is that you can only try and be great at it. There's no perfecting it because that's subjective. But it's something you're reaching for. For me, the success of #EvesBayou gave me the courage to keep reaching and keep trying to think outside the box and not be intimidated. I often think that I was very brave then — it was a very brave move. If I'd known too much about Hollywood, I might not have done it." — Kasi Lemmons (Dir. Eve’s Bayou) . . . #horrornoire #kasilemmons #blackdirectors #womendirectors #womendirect
  • Don’t miss your chance to watch @theacademy nominated doc from RaMell Ross @halecountydoc on @independentlens on PBS.org until 2/25/19! “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” is one of the year's most critically acclaimed films, is a dreamy and intimate journey through the world of Hale County, Alabama, a richly detailed glimpse into life in America’s Black Belt. . . . #halecountydoc #documentary #documentaryfilm #oscars2019 #ramellross #pbs
  • Angela Bassett, Spike Lee and Ruth E. Carter collaborated on a shoot and paid homage to #MalickSidibé, Gordon Parks and Carrie Mae Weems, among others, in this series for @wmag photographed by LaToya Ruby Frazier (who also shot the BlacKkKlansman posters).
  • Good news, @nijla1’s @jinnthemovie_ is streaming for free on Amazon Prime Video! This film won both the Best and Favorite Feature Narrative Awards at #BSFF18! Jinn is a story about Summer (Zoe Renee), an African American girl who navigates friendships, romance and a troubled relationship with her mother (Simone Missick) as she begins to embrace Muslim teachings.
  • Don’t miss the early deadline for submission to this year’s BlackStar Film Festival! Students can submit for FREE by the preferred deadline. Get more info and submit your entry at the link in our bio @blackstarfest ____________________________________________ BlackStar Film Festival returns to Philadelphia, Aug 1-4, 2019! ____________________________________________ 🌟 Early Deadline: 02/22/19 🌟 Preferred Deadline: 03/29/19 🌟 Late Deadline: 04/26/2019 ____________________________________________ #bsff19 #byindiemeansnecessary #blackstarfilmfest #filmfestival #indiefilm #blackdirectors #blackcinema
  • Watch a clip from: “As Told to G/D Thyself,” a short film from The Ummah Chroma collective, which consists of cinematographer Bradford Young, directors Terence Nance (HBO’s “Random Acts of Flyness”), Jenn Nkiru (Beyoncé and Jay Z’s “APESHIT”), editor Marc Thomas (Michael & Javier) and Kamasi Washington (an award-winning, multi-instrumentalist and producer). The short made its debut at this year’s #Sundance film festival. Washington explained, “The first thing we did together was try to figure out what that vision was, which led to discussions about story, emotions, the progressive nature of the ideas the album had, and then Terence came and really cultivated it all into a treatment.” That treatment was given its first visual cues by Nkiru, a British-Nigerian filmmaker, and the only member of the collective not based in the States. Early on, she would set the tone for the form the musical short film would eventually take: a 24-minute variable series of sequences — including a fantastical, if foreboding, forest ritual, and a floating monolith evocative of that to be found in “2001: A Space Odyssey” — that could exist as narratives on their own, all linked by a blend of Washington’s improvisational score. . . Source: @indiewire @kamasiwashington