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Welcome to BADWest.org! You can look forward to news, articles and information related to documentary film making and the BADWest organization. For those of you who are unfamiliar with BADWest Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West, feel free to visit the About page and read our mission statement. For BADWest members as well as people [...]

St. Clair Bourne Free Documentary Series Returns BADWest is pleased to bring back “St. Clair Bourne’s Fourth Monday,” a free film series held the fourth Monday of every month. Named in honor of our late founder, this program screens political and issue-oriented films having significance to the African diaspora. Just as St. Clair had envisioned [...]

Black Association Of Documentary Filmmakers West ‘DAY OF BLACK DOCS’ The Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers and the “Education as a Civil Right” Committee invite you to a “Day of Black Docs” on July 24, 2010 at the American Film Institute from 11am to 4pm See The Following Documentaries Music by Prudence Soul Train Freedom Riders [...]

I recently attended Morrie Warshawski’s Shaking the Money Tree workshop hosted by IDA.  It was a day long seminar filled with A LOT of information on distribution, grant monies and soliciting individual donors.  Surely, I can’t pass on Morrie’s trade secrets.  Read the book Shaking The Money Tree.  I can tell you about two new [...]

Jaguar Productions, Inc., A sports and entertainment production company is seeking a director for an independent film entitled The Champion Inside. Filming will take place in the summer 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. Prefer directors who live in PA, NY, NJ or DE. The film center s on a professional female boxer, who is forced to [...]

* WANTED: Writers, Cartoonists , Videographers, Copy  Editor and Mac-Pros! We have amazing news: The Goddess Training Academy is GROWING! Thus, we need your help! We have amazing new projects coming up to give to you, but we need a few independent contractors/freelancers to assist us. We are seeking(male/female): Writers Videographers for events- with own [...]

You should be so lucky to see this film in a theater full of black women! Hoopin’ and hollerin’ in delight and disgust, Chris Rock’s first documentary exceeded my expectations. And I can’t imagine anyone doing it better. Certainly no woman, for it would have been assumed that any woman asking these questions would have [...]

This spring and summer have been an especially busy one for BADWest. On May 26th we were on hand to receive Trinidadian- born documentary filmmaker and photographer Horace Ove at an informal reception at the Alitash Kebede Gallery, located in Los Angeles on LaBrea Ave’s gallery row. The reception, free and open to all filmmakers, [...]