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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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Are you listening to @manylumens with @maorikarmae

Are you listening to @manylumens with @maorikarmael? The latest episode of our new podcast features Maori in conversation with acclaimed writer and poet @jasonreynolds83 — who sees literature as a form of radical world-making.

And ICYMI, in episode 2 Maori connects with ZOLA director @janicza in a far-ranging conversation that covers accountability, her creative process, and a shared childhood obsession with Barbies.⠀
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Catch up at the link in bio and subscribe (on Apple, Spotify, or almost anywhere you listen to your podcasts) to be the first to hear the next episode, dropping Monday, with Arthur Jafa!⠀
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#ManyLumens #JasonReynolds⁠ #JasonReynolds⠀
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Submissions for the 10th annual BlackStar Film Fes

Submissions for the 10th annual BlackStar Film Festival are now open! Follow the link in bio to submit your work today.⁠⠀
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Early deadline is February 10 and the final deadline for submissions is March 31! #BSFF21 will take place August 4-8 this year. ⁠⠀
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Visit the link to learn more!
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[Image Descriptions: First card reads "Submit Your Film Today" BlackStar Film Festival, #BSFF21, blackstarfest.org/submissions, in teal against black. Second card has the same footer with a headline that reads "Submissions Open Now" over the obscured date Jan 15, and all against a teal background. Third card is a quote, "BlackStar is the very definition of self-determined image crafting. The gathering, the content, the energy, the joy...rarefied and unrivaled." — Elissa Blount Moorhead."]

The first print in our year-long 10th Anniversary

This Friday, BlackStar is launching a special 10th

This Friday, BlackStar is launching a special 10th Anniversary Print Sale — with a limited edition print for sale on the 15th of every month for the rest of the year! ⁠⠀
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Featuring artworks by BlackStar alums (in alphabetical order, by last name): Garrett Bradley, Damon Davis, Kevin Jerome Everson, Haile Gerima, Arthur Jafa, Kahlil Joseph, Louis Massiah, Terence Nance, Michelle Angela Ortiz, Fahamu Pecou, Andrea Pippins, and Cauleen Smith.⁠⠀
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Check back here or visit the link in bio on January 15 to find out which print goes on sale first.⁠⠀
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And join us all year as we celebrate a decade of BlackStar (including our 10th annual film festival in August!).⁠⠀
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#BlackStar10 #BSFF21⁠⠀
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BlackStar turns 10 this year and we're doing *a lo

BlackStar turns 10 this year and we're doing *a lot* to celebrate! This includes the tenth edition of the Film Festival this August — for which submissions will open this coming Friday — another issue (or two) of @seen_journal, our podcast @manylumens, a 10th anniversary print sale, the return of #BlackStarLIVE plus much much more! 🎉⁠⠀
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Follow the link in bio to read about all the programs and initiatives we have planned for 2021, or learn more at blackstarfest.org. ⁠⠀

#BlackStar10 #BSFF21 #byindiemeansnecessary
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[Image Descriptions: second slide is a screenshot of an article from @phillyvoice with the title "BlackStar Projects expanding on film festival to celebrate 10 years," by Sinead Cummings. Article features a photo of an empty movie theatre. First slide is another screenshot, of an article from @indiewire, with the title "Don't Call It a Comeback: 2021 Film Festivals Remain Vital in Whatever Form They Take," by Eric Kohn. Article features a photo from the Cannes Film Festival.]

ICYMI, we released the first episode of @manylumen

"Costume designer Ruth Carter has brought memorabl

"Costume designer Ruth Carter has brought memorably bold and colorful looks to the screen for decades. Carter earned her first credit on Spike Lee’s School Daze in 1988 and has gone on to have a long working relationship with the director. In 2019, she made history as the first Black designer to win an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, for her work on Black Panther. From indie films to Marvel blockbusters, Carter’s work is now the subject of a well-deserved exhibit, Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design, now on view at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film through September 21, 2021." - Abbey Bender, for @hyperallergic⁠
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Link in bio for the full article and more info about the exhibit!⁠
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[Image Description: Screenshot from Hyperallergic site shows the title "Ruth Carter’s Radical, Afrofuturist Fashion" above the subtitle: "From "Do the Right Thing" to "Selma" to "Black Panther", Carter’s costume designs have long been defined by their ability to elevate characters too often marginalized." Below that is a photo of a hand (presumably Carter's) touching the Black Panther costume, wearing jewelry that spells out "Love." Photo credit via Hyperallergic: Awol Erizku for The New Yorker (courtesy SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film)].

Are you ready for @manylumens!? Today we released

Introducing our brand new podcast: @manylumens wit

2020 Festival Re-cap

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