We are imagining the black femme as a global protagonist and universal archetype. We are looking for moving films of any genre that center black femme protagonists or are made by black femme filmmakers.
The 2019 Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival will take place in Baltimore Maryland, Labor Day weekend.
The theme is “Accessibility”.
Of the top-grossing 1,200 films from 2007 to 2018: Only 9 directing assignments have been filled by women of color. These 9 jobs were held by 7 women, 4 of whom were Black
16 Black directors (14.3%) worked across the 100 top films. 15 were male and only 1 was female.
Traditionally film festivals made most of their money by charging filmmakers to screen. This speaks to why film festivals look how they do now, you essentially have to pay to play.
We don’t want to continue that same trend with this film festival. We want to charge filmmakers an affordable submission fee and also pay for selected films to screen. We even want to pay jury prize winners. In order to reach these goals we need your support.