The BlackStar Film Festival is near! Aug 2nd-5th

ATENCION! All you cultural-conscious producers, cinema buffs, industry hopefuls, filmmakers, actors!

The 1st Annual BlackStar Film Festival will take place August 2-5, 2012, and Afro-Philadelphia will never be the same. Its mission is to celebrate the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and to showcase film and video works by and about black people from across the globe. For all you Afro-cinema fans, you won’t want to miss it, as the festival’s lineup promises to DELIVER! We’re talking about insightful conversations with industry insiders like Ava DuVernay; filmmaker workshops, documentaries, film shorts, and of course, movies. Some of the festival’s most anticipated films, like: ‘Restless City’, a tale of African underworld activity in NYC; ‘United States of Hoodoo’, a man’s search for the Gods of Africa in America; and ‘Fly Away Beetle’, a story interweaving the social dynamics of capoeira and