Contact

Adrienne Anderson Founder + Director director@ibwff.com

Advisors Muata Kenyatta San Francisco State University Associated Students Performing Arts Joseph Churchill Multimedia Specialist, Filmmaker and Educator Oriana Mendez, Esq. Attorney/Legal Advisor

Web-site International Black Women’s Film Festival (year-round) www.ibwff.com Tressie Souders Film Society (supporting membership) www.tsfilmsociety.org

Some of the Films Screened at the Festival

*Premiered at the festival *A Conversation with Mrs. Carter (USA) *A Funeral at the Samba School (Brazil) *A Touch of Tutelage (USA) *Bessie's Blues (USA) *Can't Let Go (USA) *Cruzeiro (Brazil) *Duka's Dilemma (Ethiopia) *Houna & Manny (USA) *In Search of Consonance (USA) *Love Takes Time (USA) *Mind Wars (USA)

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*Portia White: Think on Me (Canada) *Preying on the Hunter (USA) *Skeleton (USA) *The Hands (USA) *The Happiest Day (USA) *The Meeting (Greenland) *Women Surviving the System (USA) A Single Rose (USA) Birth of Bardo (USA) Black Orpheus (Brazil) Blue Covers (USA) Carmin's Choice (USA) Claudia Makes a Difference (USA) Critter Island (USA) Def Dance Jam (USA) Destiny (Canada) Did I Wake You? (USA) Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ile Aiye (Brazil) First Cut (USA) Get Down (USA) Good Hair (USA) Hair Daze (USA) Hair Stories (USA) Holiday (USA) Illuminations, Vol. 2 (USA) In Search of Consonance (USA) Jacob's Sound (USA) Karmen Gei (Senegal) Knock, Knock; Who's There? (USA) Lipology (USA) Mama Africa (Burkina Faso, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe) Man Made (USA)

Maple (Canada) Memoirs of a Black Latina (USA) Mother & Daughter (USA) Nappy (USA) New York 45 (USA) Nobody Knows My Name (USA) Portrait of a Film Extra (United Kingdom) Promised Land (South Africa) Rain (USA) Ravishing Raspberry (USA) Rebel in the Soul (Canada) Rendez-vous (Canada) Say My Name (USA) Secrets (USA) Severed Souls (USA) Silence (USA) Skin Quilt Project (USA) Soliloquy (USA/France) Special Day (USA) Strike! (USA) Sushi (USA) Tears of a Swamp Fox (USA) The Actual Importance (of Being Somewhat Earnest) (USA) The Letter (USA) The Vineyard (USA) The Wiz (USA) Traces (Canada) Vivian (USA) When Spirits Dance Mambo (Puerto Rico/USA)

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Submission Requirements

Lead character prominently features a woman of African descent/African Diaspora in a non-pornographic and/or non-stereotypical role.

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Film may feature the experiences, viewpoints, lifestyles, socio-economic position or stories of Black women, but it is not required for eligibility.

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Film was directed and/or produced by a Black woman/woman of the African diaspora (this includes women of the following groups/cultures: Adivasi, Aboriginal Australians, Dravidian, Pilipino Negrito / Ati, Seminole, Dalit, African Latino, Arawak, Carib, Garifuna, “Black Indian”, Black African groups/tribes, East Timorese, Solomon Islander/indigenous Pacific Islander, African/indigenous Caribbean, African Brazilian, indigenous Fijian, Black European, indigenous Maori, multi/bi-racial, et al.).

More About Requirements

Films should be timely, or directly features issues, activities, politics that influence the lives of Black women around the world. Digital shorts, animation and experimental films may present any issue, but filmmakers should be Black women or prominently feature a Black woman character or issue.

Formatting All films (digital, animation, etc.) must be transferred onto a DVD for screenings. The IBWFF no longer accepts VHS or BETA tapes!

Online films must be encoded using either Quicktime, MPEG, Flash (*.flv) or Windows Media formats. You are welcome to forward a link to where your film can be viewed online. (Online, digital films must be transferred to DVD, if you’d like it reviewed offline. For theater projection, you must format your film for DVD and theater screen.)

About the Festival The International Black Women’s Film Festival was established in 2001 by Adrienne Anderson, and screened its first festival in 2002. To date, the festival has received over 400 entries and has garnered international attention around the world from the Netherlands, Germany, France, Greenland, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Canada, Burkina Faso, Puerto Rico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. The festival brings original, exciting, and innovative cinema featuring Black women in prominent roles and lets them present their own stories in their own voices.

International Black Women’s Film festival

International Black Women’s Film festival