2019 Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest

The theme of the festival this year is Access. Festival programs will elaborate on subjects such as Access to Power, Access to Guidance, and Access to Love.

FEATURES

JEZEBEL

Directed by Numa Perrier

After losing her ailing mother, Tiffany follows the lead of her older sister and makes fast money as a cam girl under her alias; Jezebel.

Screening August 30th 8pm Festival Opener Baltimore Premiere Q+A w/ director to follow

SOLACE

Directed by Tchaiko Omawale.

A teenager on the cusp of college is sent to live with her estranged grandmother on the other side of the country after her father’s death.

Screening September 1st 3:30pm w/ LoveLorn by Mecca Lewis . Click to view trailer

AS PASTORAS - SAMBA

CHORUS SINGERS

Directed by Juliana Chagas

These women have a tough job, securing the legacy of samba music while ensuring that the next generation learns about what they’re inheriting, that is if they even want to let the new generation in. This film shines a light on As Pastoras, the samba chorus singers of the Samba school of Portela: Tia Surica, Neide Santana, Áurea Maria and Jane Carla. Screening w/ POCCON by Alyssa Douglas.

MAESTRINA DE FAVELA

Directed by Falani Spivey

Director Falani Spivey traveled to Brazil for 10 years to document the life of Elem Silva a young black woman who started her own Samba Reggae band as a child. This is a work in progress screening and fundraiser to support the post production costs of this film.

Screening September 1st 1pm
Q+A to follow. Click to view trailer

SHORTS

ACCESS TO GENRE

Horror, fantasy, sci fi; genre film is a staple in American cinema and yet has historically been the playground of white men. The films featured are just a glimpse in what could happen when black femme filmmakers are given access to Genre.

Hair Wolf
Re-member
Queen of Hearts

The Woman at the end of the World
The Call
Empty

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

The Woman at the end of the World

by Ana do Carmo
The Call

by Angel Hobbs
Empty

by Cameron Morton
Hair Wolf

by Mariama Diallo
Re-member

by Eden Daniel
Queen of Hearts

by Kyisha Williams and Lindsey Addawoo

ACCESS TO LOVE

Ah love… it’s everything to the black femme. Or is it? These shorts question “love”. Who can give it? Who charges for it? And how much does it cost the black femme to access it.

Curiosity
Lovelorn
You Thought You Knew

Advice
The Right Swipe
Going Down

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

Me Time
$ugar Maybe

Advice

by Roland Morrison and Marquis Douglas
The Right Swipe

by Justin Caselle
Going Down

by Mezan Ayoka
Curiosity

by Britt Sankofa
Lovelorn

by Mecca Lewis
You Thought You Knew

by Sierra McKenzie
Me Time

by Iyabo Boyd
$ugar Maybe

by Adrianna Cherelle

ACCESS TO GUIDANCE

These films are about access to parental guidance or the lack thereof because for better or worse, these are the people who make us who we are.

Finding Phoebe
Second Generation Wedding
Tears from Heaven

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

Sweeter

Mothers are like Mirrors

by Jacarrea Garraway
Lazy Day

by Alicia Robinson
We Be The Same

by Imani Leigh
Finding Phoebe

by Sade Joseph Clacken
Second Generation Wedding

by Lande Yoosuf
Tears from Heaven

by Tyronne “Syranno” Wilkens
Sweeter

by Emily Eglin

ACCESS TO POWER

If the personal is political and politics are all about power, where does the black femme find herself in the heiracarchy? These shorts are about all the ways black femmes grapple with power, or the lack thereof in their lives.

Sad Girl Club
Triggered: Street Harassment and Rape Culture in D.C.’s Ward 8

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

Happy Birthday Marsha
Baobab Flowers

Sad Girl Club

by Nayani Thiyagarajah
Triggered: Street Harassment and Rape Culture in D.C.’s Ward 8

by Liane Scott
Happy Birthday Marsha

by Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel
Baobab Flowers

by Gabriela Watson-Burkett

DEFINING FEMME

One of two flagship festival shorts programs; this years’ filmmakers grappled with access to femminity. Who gets to call themselves feminine and who has had to fight for the title?

This is For Us
Finding Nia
More Dead

Femme Queen Chronicles
Femme Sparks
#MISSAMERICA

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

DOLL BABY
Jamie Fulla Grace

Femme Queen Chronicles

by Ahya Simone
Femme Sparks

by Sierra McKenzie
#MISSAMERICA

by Nayani Thiyagarajah
This is For Us

by Shanel Edwards
Finding Nia

by Nia Barge
More Dead

by Ariella Tai
DOLL BABY

by Britt Sankofa
Jamie Fulla Grace

by Emily Eglin

DEFINING BLACK

One of two flagship festival shorts programs; this years’ filmmakers grappled with access to blackness. What are all the ways we define Blackness, who gets to claim that title, and why?