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Time change to 6:30pm! November 7, 2018
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December 5, 2018

RSVP: Join us for food, drink, merriment and films to celebrate a great year. $10 admission for Non-BADWest Members. Use $5 of admission fee toward a new membership.

November 26, 2018

Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story directed by Raymond De Felitta returns to the site of his father's documentary film to examine the repercussions of this fateful interview in 1965.

Deadline Nov 1st

California Documentary Project grant program supports the research and development and production stages of film, audio, and digital media projects.

Film Festival

November 16 - 18th, 2018 | USC Doctoral Student premieres a new Community-based FILM FESTIVAL! I’ve Known Rivers - FILM FESTIVAL of arts, culture and education!

Two Lecturer Positions

Deadline September 9, 2018 | The City University of New York (CUNY) invites applications for two Distinguished Lecturer positions at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema

Mr. SOUL! Premiere

LA Film Festival on September 26, 2018: Special thanks to BADWest, funders, donors, Kickstarter backers, fellowships, mentors, supporters, families and friends

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4th Monday Free Screenings

November 26, 2018 - Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story

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Black Documentary Filmmakers

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working in documentary films

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A professional organization providing people of African descent working in documentary film, video or other media.

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Presentations conducted by industry professionals in the areas of film production, marketing, financing distribution, and more.

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We are glad to accept your film for our screening committee to review. We have a number of exhibitions throughout the year.

docs from our screenings

Day of Black Docs

12th Annual Screening Event

Maynard

Maynard Jackson Jr., the first black Mayor of a major southern city, Atlanta. The Obama before Obama.

SAMMY DAVIS JR: I’VE GOTTA ME

The first major film documentary to examine Davis’ vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th-century America.

EVIDENCE OF THE EVIDENCE

The 1971 Attica prison uprising is a signature moment of radical resistance for the American Civil Rights movement. The subsequent retaking of the prison however, “the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War,” is an open wound.

BIG CITY BLUES

A musical documentary about a new look at an old American musical form--the Blues.

Whose Streets?

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

By Blood

Bulldogging

HAITI IS A NATION OF ARTISTS

Agents of Change

Alice Walker Beauty in Truth

Soul on Ice: Past, Present & Future

WHEN JUSTICE ISNT JUST

Dancing Like Home

BOUND: AFRICANS VS AFRICAN-AMERICANS

BaddDDD: Sonia Sanchez

Be Known

God Loves Uganda

The Black Line Part 3

Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp

The Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West is a project of Fulcrum Arts' Emerge fiscal sponsorship program.

Website, fulcrumarts.org

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John Doe, Italy

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John Doe, France

Our Location

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4th Monday Free Screening

Mayme Clayton Library and Museum in association with the BADWest St. Clair Bourne 4th Monday Documentary Series

4130 Overland Avenue Culver City, CA 90230

The Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers – West

14431 Ventura Blvd PMB #115 Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

(213) 534-6635 (213) 534-6635

Membership Meeting

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Mary Pickford Center
1st Floor Conference Room

1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Membership Meeting

Latest

information on resources

December 5, 2018

November 26, 2018

Deadline Nov 1st

4th Monday Free Screenings

November 26, 2018 - Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story

Previous Free Screenings

Donate to BADWest

About Us

working in documentary films

Mission

Membership

Submit Film

Video Trailers

docs from our screenings

Day of Black Docs

12th Annual Screening Event

Maynard

SAMMY DAVIS JR: I’VE GOTTA ME

EVIDENCE OF THE EVIDENCE

BIG CITY BLUES

Previous Annual Screening Events

2017

2017

2017

2017

2016

2016

2016

2016

2015

2015

2015

2015

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2014

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