Firelight Media is proud to return as a sponsor for the BlackStar Film Festival, which will take place from August 1–4, 2024 in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, with additional screenings, parties, and events at various venues across Philadelphia and corresponding virtual programming. This year’s festival marks the 13th annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people from around the world.

Seven Firelight Media-supported filmmakers will screen their films throughout the festival, including JoeBill Muñoz, Contessa Gayles, Ivy MacDonald and Ivan MacDonald, Michelle Parkerson, Juan Carlos Dávila Santiago, and Hao Zhou.

The festival will also feature a panel discussion, “Black on the Internet,” co-presented by Firelight Media as part of our Beyond Resilience series. The panel will include William Greaves Research & Development Fund grantee Chica Andrade.

All-access passes for the festival are available for purchase here; individual tickets for in-person and virtual screenings will go on sale in early July.

Read on to learn more about the Firelight Media-supported filmmakers at this year’s festival. See you in August!

Read more on our Medium page.