The Pan African Art and Film Festival (PAFF) is considered America’s largest and most prestigious Black arts and film festival, regularly attracting over 200,000 visitors and holding annual screenings of more than 100 films made by and/or about people of African descent from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the South Pacific, Europe [...]
Roxbury International Film Festival | Boston, MA
When the Roxbury International Film Festival (RIFF) began in 1999, their goal was to celebrate films that were written, produced and directed by filmmakers of color. In addition, they hoped to provide a much-needed venue for audiences to view some of these inspiring films and interact with the filmmakers who created them. Now as it [...]
Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Designed to showcase and honor the work of established and emerging independent African American filmmakers, the Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival was launched in 2002 by Run and Shoot Filmworks (RSF), the husband-and-wife team Stephanie Tavares-Rance and Floyd Rance III. Today, the festival runs over 3 days and 45 film screenings at various locations in Edgartown [...]
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Seattle, WA
Photo: Santana Shelton as Opal in John Sayle’s Honeydripper. Seattle’s annual Langston Hughes African American Film Festival offers up both feature length and short films by independent film makers from around the world that portray a wide variety of Black life. The event always attracts a very passionate and diverse crowd, who appreciate films by and about people of African-decent [...]
