american black film festival
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Black Celebs Are Slaying 2025 Awards Season
From Keke Palmer to Colman Domingo and more, our faves have been stunting to the max this entire awards season. Let's take a look!
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‘SNL’ Legend Garrett Morris Reveals Early Comedy Struggles Dealing With ‘Young White People’
The OG ‘SNL’ cast member told Lamorne Morris, who's playing him in a film, to focus on being the ‘older Black guy’ who has to fight for roles.
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2023 ABFF Honorees Courtney B. Vance, Charles D. King, Stacey Walker King on the Future of Black Film
The industry icons spoke to The Root on the red carpet ahead of the fifth annual celebration.
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Our Father, the Devil Leads ABFF Jury Awards Winners
The American Black Film Festival announced its Jury Awards winners during the in-person portion of the event.
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Issa Rae Selected as Ambassador for American Black Film Festival 2022
'ABFF was the first major festival to showcase my work and they continue to elevate Black creatives from the ground level' Rae said in statement.
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Will Packer Named 1st-Ever Grand Jury President for 25th Anniversary of the American Black Film Festival
If you’re a Black person entrenched in the film industry in any capacity and have been to the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), you know just how special the sense of community is in comparison to more mainstream (white) festivals. Unfortunately, due to the rise of the global pandemic in 2020, patrons weren’t able to…
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ABFF Founders Jeff and Nicole Friday Launch Social Justice Now Film Festival, Michael B. Jordan and BLM's Opal Tometi Named Co-Ambassadors
Art often imitates life and social justice is a huge part of our lives right now…in fact, at this very moment. Just ask the NBA. In the spirit of creating art as an expression toward social justice, American Black Film Festival (ABFF) co-founders Jeff and Nicole Friday have launched the Social Justice Now Film Festival,…
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2020 American Black Film Festival Postponed Until October
For the past 23 years (with the occasional exceptions of the flagship Acapulco and subsequent New York and Los Angeles events) each summer, everyone in black Hollywood has descended unto Miami Beach to celebrate the biggest and best of both up-and-coming and established black creators and talent in film. From fabulous white parties to fashionable…
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ABFF Honors 2020: Louis Gossett Jr. and Lena Waithe to Receive Special Hollywood Trailblazer Honors
Just about every award ceremony hands out awards, then also hands out extra special awards that stand out from the routine awards. For example, the Golden Globes have their Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Grammys have their Lifetime Achievement Award. The blackest film festival to ever do it, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF)…
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ABFF Honors 2020: Blackest Film Festival Ever Announces Nominees for Movie of the Year
Along with hosting what I believe to be the blackest film festival to ever do it, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) joins Hollywood during awards season to officially honor some of the best films of the year with a formal ceremony called the ABFF Honors. ABFF recently announced the nominees for its big Movie…