SFBFF - Opening Screening

845 Market Street,San Francisco CA 94103

17 June, 2021

Description

San Francisco Black Film Festival - Blackness Is Everything San Francisco Black Film Festival will be opening with short Blackness Is Everything from Alba Roland Mejia. Blackness is Everything is an experimental/performative short film that celebrates the diversity of the Black diaspora in The Bay Area. Produced by BAYCAT Studio with funding from the Skoll Foundation. About the Director Alba Roland Mejia is a writer, producer, and director based in Oakland, CA. Alba's work focuses on the African diaspora and strives to capture the true essence of storytelling by pulling from real life experiences. Additional Films To Be Shown SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL’s MISSION is to celebrate African American cinema and the African cultural Diaspora and to showcase a diverse collection of films – from emerging and established filmmakers. This is accomplished by presenting Black films, which reinforce positive images and dispel negative stereotypes, and providing film artists from the bay area in particular and around the world in general, a forum for their work to be viewed and discussed. SFBFF believes film can lead to a better understanding of and communication between, peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, while simultaneously serving as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times. An early proponent of the global perspective, the festival has always been ahead of its time. Long before popular culture paid lip service to ‘going global’, we were walking the walk, presenting global motifs and topics from filmmakers around the world.