BlackStar Film Festival Wraps Up 9th Year, Announces Winners for 2020 Competition

The BlackStar Film Festival, the world's premier celebration of Black, Brown, and Indigenous film and video artists, presented this year with lead sponsor Color of Change, announced this year's award-winning films. Winners include Best Feature Documentary Stateless (Apátrida), exploring the depths of the racial hatred and institutionalized oppression that divide Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and Best Feature Narrative Miss Juneteenth, in which a former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.

Tribeca's Through Her Lens Awards $80,000 Grant To Filmmaker Suha Araj

Writer/director Suha Araj will received full production funds for her short film Rosa, Tribeca Enterprises has announced. Araj was one of five projects under consideration as part of the annual Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program, a mentorship project sponsored by Tribeca ...

2020 Maverick Awards - Woodstock Film Festival

Woodstock, NY (October 2, 2020) - On Friday, October 2nd, the 21st Woodstock Film Festival was thrilled to announce the winners of its annual Maverick Awards competition in the following categories: BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao Special Mention for Best Emerging Director I Carry You With Me,

Blackstar Film Fest 2020 Interview: Suha Araj on an Immigrant's Sleepless Nights Over a Final Resting Place in "Rosa" - The Moveable Fest

Shortly after making the documentary short "I Am Palestine," Suha Araj was commissioned to create an installation piece for an exhibit at the SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco and while for most, expressing such an abstract concept as the feeling of displacement has on those who have had to migrate from their home would be daunting, that part came easily to the artist.