Black AF
The Hip Hop Film Festival presents - BLACK STORIES THAT MATTER.
The best directors from the culture bring you stories highlighting the politics, pain and joy of Black life.
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Diamond Minds
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The Time Thief
The Time Thief showcases the work of software engineer turned artist Steven Taylor who uses his photography to capture authentic moments that give credence to the beautiful legacy of blackness and black culture.
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Black Daddy
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What's The Mark?
A black actress unintentionally participates in a racially charged commercial.
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Attacked From All Angles
A congregation is divided on the issue of black lives matter as gun violence at the hands of the police and a local gang affect two of their own.
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Black is Black
Black is Black is a short film sparking a much-needed conversation about colorism, a large issue within the black community, as well as many other communities.
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Where's my White Privilege?
A white man loses his white privilege for a day and complains about it to his black girlfriend.
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Volte-Face
Is it science or revenge? A young African American neuroscientist kidnaps a man she believes killed her mentor so she can conduct an experiment on him to cure H.A.T.E. (HyperActive Temperamental Extremeness).
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It's Snowing in the Summer
A thirtieth birthday forces two friends to wrestle with differing realities of the Black Harlem experience.
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The Expats International
THE EXPATS: INTERNATIONAL INGRAMS chronicles the international adventures and struggles of a black American family living and learning abroad. The edutainment program consists of 20 family-friendly episodes that break stereotypes and normalizes positive images of black people in global spaces; a...
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The Blue Cave
As a troubled boy from the South Side of Chicago struggles to escape brutal violence from his stepfather and the local gang, he discovers a magical blue cave.
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Beaten But Not Broken
Two young black adults confront police brutality head on as they fight for their lives against a common threat.
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In Between
Written by an incarcerated student, Lisa (biracial) explores a time in her younger life when she had to wrestle with what it meant to be black - what if things went different then?
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All By Design
An ambitious and talented teenager, Karol, wants to accomplish what only 4% of Americans have been able to do and fights to gain her protective mother’s approval.
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Protest - Justice For George Floyd
An encapsulated depiction of the energy surrounding social justice in honor of life of George Floyd.
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Black Privilege. White Power.
After graduating high school, a young Smith College student joins up with an activist group to fight for civil rights in the Jim Crow era South and ends up taking part in one of the great protest movements in American history, inspiring her peers and strangers along the way.
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Dancing With GeNie
GeNie Baffoe is a hip-hop dancer based in Winnipeg, Canada. This is his story.