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2018

Films + Conversations

Lightbox Film Center

3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Symposium, Youth Program + Opening Reception

Pearlstein Gallery

3401 Filbert Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Awards Ceremony

World Cafe Live

3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Panels + Closing Reception

ICA

118 S 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Dance Party

Johnny Brenda’s

1201 N Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19125

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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 communities of color, showcasing films by black, brown and indigenous people from around the world.

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$#LittleWoods tells the story of a pair of estranged sisters who reunite in a deserted rural town. Deb (#LilyJames) is pregnant, and living in a place where aborting a fetus is nearly as expensive as carrying it to term. Ollie (#TessaThompson) is days away from the end of her probation period, and hanging onto to the prospect of leaving everything she has for something better — or at least something different. They both need cash quickly and desperately, so Ollie returns to selling oxy. When she started writing Little Woods, writer-director Nia DaCosta (@niafromthecoast) had yet to visit the kind of desolate fracking boomtown that makes it to screen. As a child, she watched westerns with her uncle, not knowing she’d make her directorial debut with one, or that it would score her the Nora Ephron Award from the Tribeca Film Festival last year. “As I got older, I just really fell in love with the idea that it was a time period where you just create whatever world you wanted,” she told Vulture. “When you actually look at the history of the frontier, it’s a lot more diverse than any of those movies make you think. Three quarters of all cowboys were actually men of color, most of them black and Mexican. Black women were able to create lives for themselves because they were kind of lawless. It’s a very fascinating time, so I’ve always been drawn to the idea of the frontier.” Little Woods is now playing in select theaters including the Ritz Bourse in Philly. . . Source: @vulture$