2021 Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest

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

2021 AUDUIENCE AWARD WINNERS

FEATURES

DWB (DRIVING WHILE BLACK)

Dis-Placia: Vacants in the Village by Jewel Guy & Nneka Namdi

DWB by DuBois Akeen & Camry Akeen

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

T by Keisha Rae Witherspoon

Dis-Placia: Vacants in the Village

The Flight of the Bell by Terri Ogwulumba

Dis-Placia: Vacants in the Village by Jewel Guy & Nneka Namdi

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

  • Woman

    by Asia Kenney

  • 35

    by Maggie Zhu

  • Sacred Palms

    by Sha Shonna Rogers

  • To Be A Black Girl in America

    by Deanna Griffin

  • A Few Things I'm Beginning to Understand

    by Xenia Matthews

  • Tati the Great

    by Kelly Gray Bobino

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

  • Being Black

    by Kham D. Owens

  • Photo collage, child, red shirt, table, birthday presents, brick wall

    We Are

    by Ruth Fadairo

  • two people, seated across from each other, holding hands over a table with soft lights in the background

    For The Love of Monsters

    by Claire Stanton

  • Portrait, chest length wavy auburnn hair, full lips, walnut complexion highlighted by soft red theater lights, black background

    Harlem

    by Jacarrea Garraway

  • Caramel complexion, short curly hair, loop earrings, grey shirt with pink text, seat on couch with leopard print cover, arms stretched out to either side, photos in frames situated in front

    The Line

    by Cameron A Granger

QUEER + NATURAL

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

  • Earthen Energies

  • Pure

  • Children of Paris

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

  • Kapaemahu

  • Tall Are The Roots

  • person in foreground, from neck up, locs, long horizontal nose piecing, trees in the background

    Earthen Energies

    by Saki Bowman

  • woman in white dress, elbow length white gloves, walking a cruiser bicycle alongside an earthen wall of bushes and trees

    Pure

    by Natalie Jasmine Harris

  • portrait of DDM, looking upwards at an angle, short trim beard, mustache, cedar complexion, shaved head, full lips, ear piercing, white robe, white background

    Children of Paris

    by Brandy Creek

  • illustration of genderful being interacting with another being to diagnose and heal condition, lungs illuminated to show site of ailment

    Kapaemahu

    by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

  • person walking, entering a passover bridge to a complex of building. person's back is visible, wearing yellow frilly dress

    Tall Are The Roots

    by Fenn O'Meally

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

  • Un-Documented – Unlearning Imperial Plunder

  • Between Starshine and Clay

  • In Sudden Darkness

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

  • Art & Environment: A conversation on Climate Gentrification with Morel Doucet & Adrienne Chadwick

  • Mise En ABlack abyss

  • view is through glass box, people gathered together, some with head coverings of pink and white

    Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder

    by Ariella Azoulay

  • foreground: manny brown hands grabbing a bundle of silk red fabric. Background water, ripples sunset colors on water

    Between Starshine and Clay

    by Liz Kennedy

  • through a doorway we see, mother seated in a chair using a comb to prt the hair of the child standing in front of her.

    In Sudden Darkness

    by Taylor Montague

  • Egyptian inspired head on a platter, covered in sculpted and painted flowers. material is possibly ceramic

    Art & Environment: A conversation on Climate Gentrification

    with Morel Doucet & Adrienne Chadwick

  • collage of images from digital screens

    Mis En ABlack Abyss

    by Ada Pinkston

REIMAGINING BLACK FUTURES

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

  • Al Sit

  • Room 805

  • 10 years in 40 seconds

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

  • No one heals without dying

  • Inheritance

  • two figures, seated around a lantern. one older with a cane, one younger. both heads covered with light colored cloth

    Al Sit

    by Suzannah Mirghani

  • side profile of face with glasses, neck length locs, coffee bean complexion, placed alongside another face silhouette in the background.

    Room 805

    by Geraldine Elizabeth Inoa

  • view from above, neck to head, figure in on the ground, face up, mouth open, teeth exposed, ,grayed iris and pupils, eyes open and looking to the side

    10 years in 40 seconds

    by Etta East

  • figure in foreground portrait section visible, pecan complexion, hair plaited down, eyes closed, face covered in red wire or string.

    No one heals without dying

    by Olamma Oparah

  • figure in foreground wearing multi-colored striped shirt sleeved shirt, short to medium length curl hair partitioned. background: woods, lot of trees.

    Inheritance

    by Annalise Lockhart

VCMEDIA SHORT BLOCK

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

  • This is the Way We Rise

  • Anointed

  • Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

  • Fugetsu-Do

  • Hae Hawaii

  • Cambodia Town: Not For Sale

  • Trails

  • Magellan Doesn’t Live Here

  • Praise Song for Oceania

  • side profile, figure in foreground has sunglases on, short cropped hair, sandy complexion, background looks sand, flag waving in the wind

    This is the Way We Rise

    by Ciara Lacy

  • figure of a man, from waist up, side profile looking into the distance standing next to many palm trees

    Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki

    by Justyn Ah Chong

  • in foreground two figures stand, one figure dressed in black clasping the hand of the other. Angle view folks upward from waist, sunny and lightly clouded day in the background

    Hae Hawaii

    by Ty Sanga

  • side profile of figure with chest length hair, white t-shirt and caramel complexion is looking at a box of produce.Figure is in a grocery store with stacked shelves in the background

    Cambodia Town: Not For Sale

    by Brandon Soun, Lan Nguyen

  • row of barracks with doorway lights on

    Trails

    by Chris Nguyen

  • Text in image foreground reads, Praise Song. Background, soft blue and white mix of colors.

    Praise Song for Oceania

    by Justyn Ah Chong

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)

  • Ghost Island

  • Soul on Fire

  • Back to Where We Were//In The Presence of Our Ancestors

SHORT FILMS IN THIS BLOCK

  • The Wisdom of Osain

  • 5 Ribbons

  • Pattaki

  • wild plant sin foreground, figure is surrounded by white smoke obscuring view of all white attire

    Ghost Island

    by Lisandro Suriel

  • transparent red figure in the forground, person

    Soul on Fire

    by Naomi Sequar

  • 3 dancers, dressed in white with fluid skirts in motion in front of the ocean on sandy beach ground during the day

    Back to Where We Were//In The Presence of Our Ancestors

    by Sharayna Christmas

  • umber hands with green and yellow bead bracelets above a body of water carrying water in the palm

    The Wisdom of Osain

    by Amber Iyalene

  • foreground: view is from top of shoulders up, figure has walnut complexion, small loop earring, short length curly hair, background: blurry, curtains and light blue walls

    5 Ribbons

    by Vilma Martins, Heraldo De Deus

  • figure hols an object at chest length, figure is also wearing a hood, scene is very dark, not lit

    Pattaki

    by Everlane Moraes

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