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2020 Baltimore International Black Film Festival

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Founded in 2014, the Baltimore International Black Film Festival is produced by the not-for-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt social /service organization: SOGAA, Inc. Our mission is to support unity in the community and foster education with the best in independent film-making while enhancing the diverse cultural landscape and economic vitality of Baltimore City. With its unique paring of films by African-American, the African Diaspora and members of the Same Gender Loving – Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (SGL-LGBT) communities, the Baltimore International Black Film Festival (BIBFF) serves a dual purpose of educating the community while providing a venue for independent films for, by and about African Americans, the African Diaspora and members the SGL-LGBT community locally, nationally and globally. The 1st Annual BIBFF was held at the historic Charles Theatre, the only theatre of its kind in Baltimore.


Start Date

October 28, 2020, 7:00 pm

End Date

December 7, 2020, 11:00 pm

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BLM SHORTS II:  ORANGEBURG, RUN, MISFITS, The North Star: Finding Black Mecca

BLM SHORTS II: ORANGEBURG, RUN, MISFITS, The North Star: Finding Black Mecca

access_time Viewing Times November 29, 2020, 4:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

On February 6th, 1968, four years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, members of the South Carolina State College football team stood beside fellow students from the Historically Black College to protest an all-white bowling alley in the small town of Orangeburg, South Carolina. Their peaceful efforts to integrate the business provoked a violent response from local law enforcement, fueling rising tensions and culminating in a tragic confrontation between State Highway patrolmen and students on the college's campus two days later in what would become known as the Orangeburg Massacre.

AFROFUTURISM SHORTS:  Vacant, A Blossom In the Night, MINO: A DIASPORIC MYTH

AFROFUTURISM SHORTS: Vacant, A Blossom In the Night, MINO: A DIASPORIC MYTH

access_time Viewing Times November 29, 2020, 7:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

In the near future cannabis is legal and ubiquitous across the US. Nia, an out of work millennial, hopes to become a social media influencer but when women turn up missing in town she finds herself at the center of a mystery with uncanny origins and no one to turn to.

MUSIC IN ME SHORTS I:  20|20: Revision, S.O.U.L of a Black Woman, TRIBE, How to Make Love to Mariachi Music

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

20|20: Revision is a documentary following ILL Doots, a tribe of musicians and dedicated community workers. "ILL" has come to stand for I Love Living & I Love Learning. It's the two-pronged mission statement at the core of the band's work, inside and outside of their music.

The documentary is comprised of viewpoints from audience members and artistic collaborators across the entire ILL Doots community. Tracking the band through the years, as they define their social mission as teaching artists, endure through personal loss and maintain their steady aim -- all in the process of growing into their ultimate purpose.

20|20: Revision presents life as a process of constant evolution, constant education, constant growth. A process to be embraced, upheld and protected in all its stages, for all its people.

Reel Unity Pair:  Hope Village / Bloom

Reel Unity Pair: Hope Village / Bloom

access_time Viewing Times December 1, 2020, 2:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

In the documentary, Lucy Hall, the founder of one of the nation’s most successful women’s treatment facilities, shares her story of generational addiction to help Georgia families. Mary Hall’s death launches her daughter Lucy into a journey of self-discovery. Lucy drops to the depths of self destruction with drugs and alcohol only to rise from the ashes and use what she learned to help other women like herself in their own recovery. HOPE VILLAGE: FINDING RECOVERY illustrates what it takes to survive addiction, one woman at a time.

Reel Unity Pair:  HARLEM RISING / Black Boys Cant' Cry

Reel Unity Pair: HARLEM RISING / Black Boys Cant' Cry

access_time Viewing Times December 1, 2020, 4:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

“HARLEM RISING” chronicles the remarkable history and lives transformed by The Harlem Children’s Zone. Named one of the most ambitious social experiments created to break the cycle of poverty, the program spans 97 blocks of Central Harlem and serves a critical mass of 28,000 children and adults in 31 programs and two schools.

Drawing from more than 1200 hours of archival footage shot over four decades, “HARLEM RISING” traces HCZ’s history through the eyes and individual narratives of the children, the parents, and the community HCZ helped transform.

The narrative arcs of the students, parents and community members are intertwined with the history and promise of the Harlem Children’s Zone, as told by its founder, Geoffrey Canada and his fellow founding mothers and fathers who vowed to do whatever it takes to make sure that every child in the zone succeeds.

Using archival video footage filmed by Black and Brown youth from the late 1970's, 1980's, 1990's and early 2000's the film captures the transformation of New York City's Harlem through the unique lens of three generations of students who grew up with the Harlem Children's Zone.

This inspirational film shows that innovative and comprehensive community-based approaches can tackle society’s toughest problems and propel children and a community out of the cycle of poverty.

BLM SHORTS II:  RUN, MISFITS, The North Star: Finding Black Mecca, ORANGEBURG

BLM SHORTS II: RUN, MISFITS, The North Star: Finding Black Mecca, ORANGEBURG

access_time Viewing Times December 1, 2020, 7:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Alek, a revolutionist, and a runner is charged with running and escaping the threats that are facing Blacks in America.

BLM SHORTS III:  S.O.U.L of a Black Woman, Behind the Walls, 20|20: Revision

BLM SHORTS III: S.O.U.L of a Black Woman, Behind the Walls, 20|20: Revision

access_time Viewing Times December 1, 2020, 9:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

S.O.U.L of a Black Woman is an Afrofuturism film split into four chapters each representing what it is to be a black woman. Each chapter is accompanied by its own original unique music and spoken word poetry which will take you through the passages of time.

Multi-Screening:  The Fisherman's Diary, 2020 BIBFF

Multi-Screening: The Fisherman's Diary, 2020 BIBFF

access_time Viewing Times December 1, 2020, 11:57 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

A 12-year old girl - Ekah (Faith Fidel) is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning drive and determination to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father's - Solomon (Kang Quintus) past experience with girl child education.

Multi-Screening:  My Daughter, Tyler, 2020 BIBFF, Test Your Love, DAMITA., Doze of Reality, -SHIP: a visual poem, 2 Black Boys

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animals , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Marie, a single, Caribbean-American mother, struggles when she discovers her teenage son is transgender. Their relationship is strained until an incident on the streets of Brooklyn forces her to choose what matters most – society’s expectations or a parent’s support.

Multi-Screening:  Reincarnated X Speaks, 2020 BIBFF, Haunted, Tori, Not Just a Game: The Story of Savage, TRIBE, Doze of Reality

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

After Malcolm X (played by Mosiah Fit) returns back to Earth, he enters into a new body. The person he enters is abruptly awakened as X enters his body through his dreams. The reincarnated X has to learn how to deal with his new self. A self that is willing to free his people, by any means necessary!

HOSANNA SHORTS II:  I'm Trying, Goldie, Chapter 32, Compassionate Release

HOSANNA SHORTS II: I'm Trying, Goldie, Chapter 32, Compassionate Release

access_time Viewing Times December 2, 2020, 2:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Nate, a young Black boy who desperately wants and tries to succeed, while enduring verbal abuse from his auntie who has resentment towards him. One day, he gets the opportunity to meet the Dean of an Art School, where he has just a few hours to meet up with him to show his artwork to possibly receive a full-ride scholarship, but his auntie had other plans. Nate must retrieve his sketchbook, which is in his aunt's hands, and must get passed his auntie abuse in less than a few hours to make it to his appointment with the Dean.

Reel Unity Pair:  Love Like Winter / The Sound of Silence

Reel Unity Pair: Love Like Winter / The Sound of Silence

access_time Viewing Times December 2, 2020, 4:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Love Like Winter is a romantic-drama, set in Chicago, that follows a star-crossed couple, Lena Brooks (Nia Fairweather) and Stokely Parker (Dr. Artel Great), former lovers who unexpectedly reconnect after ten years apart, and for one afternoon they relive old memories and rediscover their special chemistry.

The art and appeal of Love Like Winter lies in its exploration of the question: "can we move forward by going back?" Love Like Winter is an ode to Chicago that celebrates the "everyday-ness" of Black life in a manner that is both poetic and political.

Reel Unity Pair:  Haiti Speaks, 2020 BIBFF, The Older You Get

Reel Unity Pair: Haiti Speaks, 2020 BIBFF, The Older You Get

access_time Viewing Times December 2, 2020, 7:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animals , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Haiti Speaks follows a team of doctors from The Gift of Sight, an American non-profit that takes an annual medical mission trip to Haiti, to document their work operating on hundreds of patients in the span of a week. This trip, however, is different. It comes just 100 days after “The Event”, the 7.0 earthquake that wiped out so much of the nation and its people in 2010. Now everyone has a story to tell. The Event has touched everyone and left them to consider what the future of Haiti may be.

Over the course of 5 thematic chapters featuring excerpts from acclaimed Haitian writers, the film weaves between the capital Port-au-Prince and the rural community of Lascahobas; Haitians from all walks of life, including leading journalist and historian Georges Michel, Monsignor Pierre of the Catholic Church of Haiti, doctors, and students, speak on the issues affecting the state of their union: health care, education, economics, foreign relations, and the earthquake. Visual vignettes capture the feeling of standing on Haiti’s shores, swimming in its lakes, trudging through its mountainous forests, and drifting through the dusty, rubble filled city streets, as the people take the audience through their own stories intertwined with the one of their beloved country.

HOSANNA SHORTS II:  Compassionate Release, Goldie, Chapter 32, I'm Trying

HOSANNA SHORTS II: Compassionate Release, Goldie, Chapter 32, I'm Trying

access_time Viewing Times December 2, 2020, 9:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

After the death of her husband, Carol is faced with raising her twin daughters alone and navigating the aftermath of tragedy. One daughter sees the world through the eyes of an elitist, while the other sees the world as a defeatist. Their journeys will be as life changing as the death that set them on this unexpected and heartbreaking course.

Reel Unity Pair:  CITY / Wali & Zuri

Reel Unity Pair: CITY / Wali & Zuri

access_time Viewing Times December 2, 2020, 11:57 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Desperate teenagers ignite a gang war and narcotics investigation when they stumble upon a botched robbery and help themselves to the spoils.

Reel Unity Pair:  Courageous / Meet Me Inside

Reel Unity Pair: Courageous / Meet Me Inside

access_time Viewing Times December 3, 2020, 9:07 am EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Courageous is a film project of a one-man monologue performance. The performance is taken from the book titled Courageous which is loosely based on the life of Avon "Flubber" Johnson. A notorious gangster who grew up on the streets of Baltimore during the 60's and his life as a drug dealer turned drug addict, during the 70s and into the 80's. This is his story.

YOUTH SHORTS:  A Sisterhood of Signatures, Broken Bird, Bloom, Puppy Love, Wali & Zuri, Doze of Reality, Undefeated Hip-Hop Dance

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

After a middle school tween discovers a letter from her great grandmother (from WWII era), she challenges her mischievous friends to begin a cursive, letter-writing club.

DMV SHORTS II:  Crown & Confidence, Reincarnated X Speaks, The Vow, Zero, Zero, One

DMV SHORTS II: Crown & Confidence, Reincarnated X Speaks, The Vow, Zero, Zero, One

access_time Viewing Times December 3, 2020, 2:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller , War

Online Live Screenings

This mini-documentary examines why women cut their hair and explore their relationship before and after their haircuts. Explore how maintaining short hair changes the daily experiences these women have with others. This film hopes to start a discussion on the conversational gaps in regards to black hair.

BLM SHORTS III:  Behind the Walls, 20|20: Revision, S.O.U.L of a Black Woman

BLM SHORTS III: Behind the Walls, 20|20: Revision, S.O.U.L of a Black Woman

access_time Viewing Times December 3, 2020, 4:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Portuguese authorities keep no data on ethnicity or race because they find that identifying people by race is discriminatory. Yet, ignoring the data is giving people the right to accept that racism in Portugal does not exist, leaving those in minority communities angered and hopeless because their rights are being taken away. This story will capture the lives of people, and how they really feel about living in their homes. Uncovering their true thoughts fears, and struggles. It will uncover a system and is unjust and corrupt.

Reel Unity Pair:  I'm Good Bro: Unmasking Black Male Depression / How to Make Love to Mariachi Music

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

"I'm Good Bro: Unmasking Black Male Depression," addresses the historical impact of depression in its many forms. From the roots of slavery, those who were formally incarcerated, the impact on day to day personal and professional relationships, and the effects on and from the church. This documentary follows the journey of individuals with firsthand experience dealing with depression from the perspective of those who have personally dealt with or who have been diagnosed with the disease. "I'm Good Bro: Unmasking Black Male Depression," also provides professional insight from counselors, license professional therapists and spiritual advisers.

Reel Unity Pair:  Haiti Speaks / The Older You Get

Reel Unity Pair: Haiti Speaks / The Older You Get

access_time Viewing Times December 3, 2020, 9:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animals , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Haiti Speaks follows a team of doctors from The Gift of Sight, an American non-profit that takes an annual medical mission trip to Haiti, to document their work operating on hundreds of patients in the span of a week. This trip, however, is different. It comes just 100 days after “The Event”, the 7.0 earthquake that wiped out so much of the nation and its people in 2010. Now everyone has a story to tell. The Event has touched everyone and left them to consider what the future of Haiti may be.

Over the course of 5 thematic chapters featuring excerpts from acclaimed Haitian writers, the film weaves between the capital Port-au-Prince and the rural community of Lascahobas; Haitians from all walks of life, including leading journalist and historian Georges Michel, Monsignor Pierre of the Catholic Church of Haiti, doctors, and students, speak on the issues affecting the state of their union: health care, education, economics, foreign relations, and the earthquake. Visual vignettes capture the feeling of standing on Haiti’s shores, swimming in its lakes, trudging through its mountainous forests, and drifting through the dusty, rubble filled city streets, as the people take the audience through their own stories intertwined with the one of their beloved country.

AFROFUTURISM SHORTS:  A Blossom In the Night, Vacant, MINO: A DIASPORIC MYTH

AFROFUTURISM SHORTS: A Blossom In the Night, Vacant, MINO: A DIASPORIC MYTH

access_time Viewing Times December 3, 2020, 11:57 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

When a young woman is on the run from a dystopian government that is selling low-income citizens into slavery, she has to decide whether she has the strength to fight when her brother is kidnapped.

Reel Unity Pair:  I'm Good Bro: Unmasking Black Male Depression / How to Make Love to Mariachi Music

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

"I'm Good Bro: Unmasking Black Male Depression," addresses the historical impact of depression in its many forms. From the roots of slavery, those who were formally incarcerated, the impact on day to day personal and professional relationships, and the effects on and from the church. This documentary follows the journey of individuals with firsthand experience dealing with depression from the perspective of those who have personally dealt with or who have been diagnosed with the disease. "I'm Good Bro: Unmasking Black Male Depression," also provides professional insight from counselors, license professional therapists and spiritual advisers.

Reel Unity Pair:  Hope Village / Bloom

Reel Unity Pair: Hope Village / Bloom

access_time Viewing Times December 4, 2020, 11:37 am EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

In the documentary, Lucy Hall, the founder of one of the nation’s most successful women’s treatment facilities, shares her story of generational addiction to help Georgia families. Mary Hall’s death launches her daughter Lucy into a journey of self-discovery. Lucy drops to the depths of self destruction with drugs and alcohol only to rise from the ashes and use what she learned to help other women like herself in their own recovery. HOPE VILLAGE: FINDING RECOVERY illustrates what it takes to survive addiction, one woman at a time.

The Fisherman's Diary

The Fisherman's Diary

access_time Viewing Times December 4, 2020, 2:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

A 12-year old girl - Ekah (Faith Fidel) is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning drive and determination to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father's - Solomon (Kang Quintus) past experience with girl child education.

DMV SHORTS II:  Zero, Zero, One, The Vow, Crown & Confidence, Reincarnated X Speaks, BLAHC

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller , War

Online Live Screenings

A young man gets selected first overall in the 1969 Vietnam draft lottery. He returns home two years later, to find a bevy of changes amongst his friends and family.

Reel Unity Pair:  WISPER / A.R.T

Reel Unity Pair: WISPER / A.R.T

access_time Viewing Times December 4, 2020, 7:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

A unique experimental found footage take on an anti-hero protagonist. "Wisper’ is the true story of the murder of a middle-class African American family in Northern New Jersey. In the summer of 2016, three children and their mother were found shot to death in their large suburban home. "Wisper" is loosely based on the personal videotapes and diaries owned by the father of the victims.

Reel Unity Pair:  Mabata Bata / The Watery Grave

Reel Unity Pair: Mabata Bata / The Watery Grave

access_time Viewing Times December 4, 2020, 9:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Azarias is a young orphan shepherd, keeper of a herd of oxen, where the ox Mabata Bata stands out. The oxen will be the basis of the "lobolo" payment, a traditional dowry that his uncle Raul must pay for his own marriage. Azarias’ dream is to be a normal child, to go to school, gold that is supported by his grandmother. One day, when Azariah is in the pasture, Mabata Bata steps into a mine - the result of the civil war in the country - and explodes.

The young man fears his uncle's reprisals and flees to the forest, taking with him the remaining oxen. The grandmother and uncle leave in their quest to rescue him and persuade him to return.

Director Biography - Sol de Carvalho

MUSIC IN ME SHORTS:  TRIBE, 20|20: Revision, How to Make Love to Mariachi Music, S.O.U.L of a Black Woman

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

Singer, rapper, and poet, Akilah Divine sends a wake up call with the performance of her single "TRIBE."

AFROFUTURISM SHORTS:  MINO: A DIASPORIC MYTH, Vacant, A Blossom In the Night

AFROFUTURISM SHORTS: MINO: A DIASPORIC MYTH, Vacant, A Blossom In the Night

access_time Viewing Times December 5, 2020, 11:37 am EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Social Justice , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

It is 2079. In the utopic haven of Biamara, a Coven of Black womyn who can conceive without men must consider denouncing one of their own when she chooses to defy the all female code and self produce a male child.

Reel Unity Pair:  WISPER / A.R.T

Reel Unity Pair: WISPER / A.R.T

access_time Viewing Times December 5, 2020, 2:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

A unique experimental found footage take on an anti-hero protagonist. "Wisper’ is the true story of the murder of a middle-class African American family in Northern New Jersey. In the summer of 2016, three children and their mother were found shot to death in their large suburban home. "Wisper" is loosely based on the personal videotapes and diaries owned by the father of the victims.

Reel Unity Pair:  Sky Blossom / Waves

Reel Unity Pair: Sky Blossom / Waves

access_time Viewing Times December 5, 2020, 4:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller , War

Online Live Screenings

An inspiring film on today’s teens and twenty-somethings taking care of family with disabilities across America.

Reel Unity Pair:  Making Sweet Tea / colour of love

Reel Unity Pair: Making Sweet Tea / colour of love

access_time Viewing Times December 5, 2020, 7:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

"Making Sweet Tea" is a documentary film that chronicles the journey of southern-born, black gay researcher and performer, E. Patrick Johnson, as he travels home to North Carolina to come to terms with his past.  He then goes on to Georgia, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. in order to reconnect with six black gay men he interviewed for the book, "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History."

Reel Unity Pair:  Thumbs Up for Mother Universe / This Land

Reel Unity Pair: Thumbs Up for Mother Universe / This Land

access_time Viewing Times December 5, 2020, 9:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

Online Live Screenings

This feature-length documentary traces the dramatic life of Lonnie Holley from the garbage dumps and prison camps of Jim Crow Alabama to the music stages and art museums of the world. Along the way, the film reveals the spirituality of Holley’s creative process; his insights into conservation, ecology and the environment; and his deep sources of inspiration rooted in southern life and African American history and culture.

Lonnie B. Holley has been described as an outsider, a poet, a con man, a prophet, a hustler, a visionary artist, a junkman and a shaman. Foremost, the 69-year-old African American artist and musician from Birmingham, Alabama is an American original. Born the seventh of 27 children, Holley’s childhood is the stuff of novels.

Reel Unity Pair:  Women of Faith: Coping with Trauma / Broken Bird

Reel Unity Pair: Women of Faith: Coping with Trauma / Broken Bird

access_time Viewing Times December 5, 2020, 11:57 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

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Our inaugural project is Women of Faith: Coping with Trauma. This mental health documentary takes an in-depth look into the lives of four women who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse, but who also triumphantly find joy, hope and peace through their faith in God and their community. We know it is a tough subject, but let’s have the tough conversation so women, children and families can find healing.

Reel Unity Pair:  The Fisherman's Diary / Uncle Mike

Reel Unity Pair: The Fisherman's Diary / Uncle Mike

access_time Viewing Times December 6, 2020, 9:07 am EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

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A 12-year old girl - Ekah (Faith Fidel) is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning drive and determination to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father's - Solomon (Kang Quintus) past experience with girl child education.

LET'S HEAR IT 4 DA BOY SHORTS II:  Waves, BLAHC, I'm Trying, Waters of March, Zero, Zero, One

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller , War

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A black, deaf teen wants “Waves” for prom night, but his haircut falls into the hands of an inattentive, rookie barber.

COMEDY SHORTS:  How to Make Love to Mariachi Music, The Older You Get, We Fight, We Love, Bloom, Doze of Reality

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animals , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

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A nice guy is having trouble sealing the deal with a girl he’s been dating for several weeks. He plans a romantic evening to sweep her off her feet, but his upstairs neighbor's band is ruining their night. This nice guy has to figure out how far is he willing to go to complete his perfect night.

ISN'T SHE LOVELY SHORTS II:  Khadijah, MISFITS, A.R.T, Compassionate Release

ISN'T SHE LOVELY SHORTS II: Khadijah, MISFITS, A.R.T, Compassionate Release

access_time Viewing Times December 6, 2020, 4:37 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

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When a destitute young woman stumbles upon a mosque one day, the leader of the establishment invites her to learn more about the faith. After falling for him, she converts to Islam and accepts his marriage proposal; but when things begin to go awry, she desperately questions if she can preserve the union.

Love Like Winter

Love Like Winter

access_time Viewing Times December 6, 2020, 7:07 pm EST

Culture(s): African , African American , Asian , Christian , Latinx , LBGTQ , Muslim

Genre(s): Action , Adventure , Animation , Comedy , Crime , Documentaries , Drama , Faith , Fantasy , Historical , Horror , Musical , Mystery , Romance , Science Fiction , Thriller

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Love Like Winter is a romantic-drama, set in Chicago, that follows a star-crossed couple, Lena Brooks (Nia Fairweather) and Stokely Parker (Dr. Artel Great), former lovers who unexpectedly reconnect after ten years apart, and for one afternoon they relive old memories and rediscover their special chemistry.

The art and appeal of Love Like Winter lies in its exploration of the question: "can we move forward by going back?" Love Like Winter is an ode to Chicago that celebrates the "everyday-ness" of Black life in a manner that is both poetic and political.