2021 Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest Program

7 days and nearly 50 films by Black femme filmmakers and protagonists 2 future for their own good.

Due to the new order of the world, we have determined this year to be exceptional. We are opened our submissions to filmmakers and films that center indigenous voices, whose work grapples with the state of the global environment and climate change. Some would say that indigeneity and blackness are not entirely separate, as both groups have historically been stewards of the earth.

Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival.

Watch our festival opening feature film “Dis-placia: Vacants in the Village” and more shorts films FREE!

Sat, Oct 23, 2021 (Rain Date)
4:00 PM to MIDNIGHT

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2021 AUDUIENCE AWARD WINNERS

FEATURES

DWB (DRIVING WHILE BLACK)

Feature film DWB (Driving While Black) and short film T present a montage of poetic and haunting moments examining the trials and triumphs of Black experience

Dis-Placia:Vacants in the Village

Feature film Dis-Placia: Vacants in the Village and short film The Flight of the Bell clarify histories of blight and disinvestment in Black communities in and beyond Baltimore City.

SHORTS

Defining Femme

Every year we select short films that we feel redefine what it means to be “femme.” These 7 short films speak to what being a femme in 2021 feels like.

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

WOMAN
35
Sacred Palms
To Be A Black Girl in America
A Few Things I’m Beginning to Understand
Tati the Great

Defining Black

Every year we select short films that we feel redefine what it means to be “Black.” These selected short films affirm, trouble, elevate and clarify Black Identity constructs.

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

Being Black
We Are
For the Love of Monsters
Harlem
The Line

Queer + Natural

Queer + Natural features short films that queer the lens of radical cinema and celebrate a broad spectrum of identity.

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

Earthen Energies
Pure
Children of Paris
Kapaemahu
Tall Are The Roots

Histories of Displacement

Histories of Displacement features short films that expose histories of systemic violence that have overwhelming targeted BiPOC communities in America, the Caribbean and the Global South

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

Un-Documented – Unlearning Imperial Plunder
Between Starshine and Clay
In Sudden Darkness
Art & Environment: A conversation on Climate Gentrification with Morel Doucet & Adrienne Chadwick
Mise En ABlack abyss

Reimagining Black Futures

Reimagining Black Futures envisions fantastical and liberatory fates of Black lives across the diaspora.

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

Al Sit
Room 805
10 years in 40 seconds
No one heals without dying
Inheritance

A collection of short films curated by Visual Communications + The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival that elucidate compelling narratives about the lived experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander communities

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

This is the Way We Rise
Anointed
Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki
Fugetsu-Do
Hae Hawaii
Cambodia Town: Not For Sale
Trails
Magellan Doesn’t Live Here
Praise Song for Oceania

Omi is the First Medicine

Omi is the First Medicine features a beautiful selection of short films that meditate on the healing potential and power of African Traditional Religions (ATRs)

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK