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WEDNESDAY
August 19
Event
BlackStar Pitch
12:00 PM ET
THURSDAY
August 20
Morning Show
BlackStar Live!
9:15 AM ET
Shorts Program
Gravitaxis
After Migration • Gulf • Harana • Rosa
10:00 AM ET
Panel
Nonfiction Vernacular and Collaboration
Panelists: Amir George, Lyric R Cabral, Jazmin Jones, Kevin B Lee
Moderator: jeanelle augustin
12:00 PM ET
Feature Documentary
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore
1:30 PM ET
Panel
Documentary at the End of the World
Panelists: Brit Hensel, cai thomas, Courtney Staton, Lan Nguyen
Moderator: Darian Henry
4:00 PM ET
Shorts Program
Kindred
In Sudden Darkness • Wali & Zuri • Gossamer • Broken Bird • Clams Casino • Echoes of a Winter Sunshine
5:30 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Unapologetic
7:30 PM ET
Feature Narrative
Right Near the Beach
9:30 PM ET
Party
Opening Night Party
DJ Jazzy Jeff
11:00 PM ET
FRIDAY
August 21
Morning Show
BlackStar Live!
9:15 AM ET
Shorts Program
Malaise
Address Unknown • KEON • Breathe (Neefso) • Behind The Mask (面具之下) • Black Lady Goddess
10:00 AM ET
Panel
Troubling the Frame, Troubling the Terrain
Panelists: Razan Al-Salah, Adam Khalil, Kurt Otabenga Orderson, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, Michèle Stephenson
Moderator: Nehad Khader
12:00 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Coded Bias
1:30 PM ET
Panel
Beyond the Status: Working with and Investing in Undocumented Creatives
Panelists: Vee Bravo, Iliana Perez, Sheila Quintana Aguilar, Armando Ibañez, Dilan Garcia Lopez
Moderator: Nicole- Solis Sison
4:00 PM ET
Shorts Program
Refractive
The, Incredulity of Jacolby Satterwhite • ALLUMUAH • .srt • Photographer in Focus • Black Man in the Cosmos • Canada Park
5:30 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Through the Night
Screens with: Tamales Y Tunas
7:00 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Be Water
9:00 PM ET
Online and at The Philly Drive-In
SATURDAY
August 22
Morning Show
BlackStar Live!
9:15 AM ET
Feature Documentary
The Ancestors Live – 50 Years of Kùlú Mèlé African Dance & Drum Ensemble
Screens with: Afrikan Space Program • As Above • Braiding & Singing (a point)
10:00 AM ET
Panel
Solidarity Is Not A Trend, Nor a Market Exchange
Panelists: Marcia Smith, Bhawin Suchak, Jemma Desai, Ben-Alex Dupris
Moderator: Sonya Childress
12:00 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Landfall
1:30 PM ET
Panel
Mothering and Laboring the Cinematic Revolution
Panelists: Loira Limbal, Natasha K Ngaiza, A-lan Holt, Roni Nicole Henderson-Day
Moderator: Dani McClain
4:00 PM ET
Feature Documentary
ROCÍO
Screens with: Dear Nyakio
5:30 PM ET
Shorts Program
Kinetic
Origin of Hair • In Hot Time • Legendary • Downstage • All that you Can’t Leave Behind • We Can’t Cop Cars Without Seeing Cop Cars
7:30 PM ET
Feature Narrative
The Forty-Year-Old Version
9:00 PM ET
*At The Philly Drive-In
SUNDAY
August 23
Morning Show
BlackStar Live!
9:15 AM ET
Feature Documentary
A New Country
Screens with: We Are Free Because of Harriet Tubman
10:00 AM ET
Feature Documentary
Daughters Of
Screens with: Wash Day
11:30 AM ET
Shorts Program
The Grind
Nilā • The Deliverer • The Stain (Lakeh) • See You Next Time • COVER/AGE • Midnight Oil
1:30 PM ET
Panel
Cultural Work In the Wake
Panelists: Cecilia Aldarondo, Iyabo Kwayana, Ruha Benjamin, Mark Gonzales, Mia Birdsong
Moderator: Sage Crump
4:00 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Dark City Beneath the Beat
5:30 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Nationtime – Gary
7:00 PM ET
Feature Narrative
Miss Juneteenth
9:00 PM ET
*At The Philly Drive-In
MONDAY
August 24
Morning Show
BlackStar Live!
9:15 AM ET
Feature Documentary
Softie
10:00 AM ET
Feature Documentary
Pier Kids
1:30 PM ET
Conversation
Still Processing The Forty-Year-Old Version
Featuring: Wesley Morris, Jenna Wortham, Radha Blank
4:00 PM ET
Shorts Program
Solvent of Life
In Vitro (al Mukhtabar) • Brown Bodies in a Far Away Sea • The Lake and The Lake (Kere mattu Kere) • By Way of Canarsie
5:30 PM ET
Shorts Program
Chronicles
Man of the People • My Love, Ethiopia (Yene Fikir, Ethiopia) • Zero Zero • You Hide Me • I’m Free Now You’re Free • The Day the Sun Died
7:30 PM ET
Feature Documentary
TIME
9:30 PM ET
TUESDAY
August 25
Morning Show
BlackStar Live!
9:15 AM ET
Feature Documentary
Making Sweet Tea
10:00 AM ET
Conversation
Cinematography Roundtable: Eric Branco, Michael Fernandez and Shawn Peters
12:00 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Down a Dark Stairwell
1:30 PM ET
Conversation
Madeline Anderson in conversation with Louis Massiah and Michelle Materre
4:00 PM ET
Shorts Program
Process
The Giverny Document • A Song About Love • How to Make A Flower • Partial Differential
5:30 PM ET
Shorts Program
Nimbus
Black Boy Joy • The Heart Still Hums • Safe Among Stars (安全在星中) • A Mother • Our Largest • I ran from it and was still in it
7:30 PM ET
Experimental
A Day With Jerusa (Um Dia com Jerusa)
Screens with: AquaMarina
9:30 PM ET
WEDNESDAY
August 26
Morning Show
BlackStar Live!
9:15 AM ET
Feature Documentary
Two Gods
10:00 AM ET
Panel
Intimate Histories: Archival Approaches in Time
Panelists: Garrett Bradley, Patrisse Cullors, Saidiya Hartman, and Imani Perry
Moderator: Maori Karmael Holmes
12:00 PM ET
Feature Documentary
Stateless (Apátrida)
1:30 PM ET
Conversation
Heidi Saman & Lulu Wang in Conversation
4:00 PM ET
Shorts Program
Entanglements
tender • DVD & Chill • HONEYMOON • A Storybook Ending • It’s Snowing Outside • 1-800 Loveable
5:30 PM ET
Feature Narrative
Farewell Amor
7:30 PM ET
Party
Closing Night Party
Rich Medina
11:00 PM ET