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Black & Brown Femme Films Festival

  • Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport Avenue Chicago, IL, 60613 United States (map)

6 talented Black & Brown women filmmakers take center stage in a captivating showcase celebrating diversity through powerful cinema.

BFF (Black & Brown Femme Films) is an inclusive, submission-free, rotating showcase, celebrating the diverse voices of filmmakers and performing artists identifying as black, brown, and femme. Empowering underrepresented talents, we foster a nurturing community, driving positive change through thought-provoking narratives and performances. Join us as we champion brilliance in cinema and the performing arts.

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Jovan Landry will be screening Take Some Leave Some’s “The Procession” where she served as videographer, editor, performer, and sound artist. The Procession is a multidisciplinary, performance installation that was created as a part of a performance series funded by the Pullman Laboring Together Grant. We used choreographic scores that referenced Black Church gestures to inform how we shaped the performance (praising, giving honor to spirit, love, joy, finding peace), and built a “home” installation space where Black women could be vulnerable to express, experience and give love in all of its forms. The Procession acted as a cleansing ritual clearing the neighborhood of the energies and systems that deny Black women love and making room for the spirit of love in all of its fullness. We processed through the neighborhood past the church into our performance space situated in a home in the Pullman neighborhood. This dance film imagined the camera/lens as a fourth performer.

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