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Team Dream
In the short documentary film TEAM DREAM we meet close friends Ann Smith and Madeline Murphy Rabb in their final days of preparation for the 2022 National Senior Games. While they train, we learn about their lives growing up amid segregation and...
 
Second Shot
Second Shot investigates the complexities of the US parole process through the lens of one of New York’s most examined murders of the early 90’s: a shootout on Christmas night during a screening of Godfather III. Through intimate storytelling...
 
Racist Trees
Racist Trees investigates the timely story of racial conflict in an unlikely, liberal pocket of America, uncovering an even darker racist history that few would equate with the city’s progressive image. An intimate, sobering, and at times...
 
Invisible Beauty
Fashion revolutionary and model turned agent and activist Bethann Hardison knew that Black is beautiful well before the fashion industry acknowledged the truth. From walking runway shows alongside Iman to discovering supermodels like Tyson...

OUR MISSION

BADWest champions and further advances the art of Black documentary filmmakers across the Diaspora. We maintain our commitment to promote and increase the impact of documentary filmmaking within Southern California.

4th Monday Community Documentary Screening

Free, films screened push the art form and address the social climate and awaken history. Q&A with filmmakers.

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Donations to the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West are tax deductible to the full extent of the law under Federal ID 95-2540759.

PRE TO POST WORKSHOPS

Join us for pre to post workshops and discussions led by industry professionals.

Day of Black Docs

Approaching two decades, our signature event DOBD showcases premiere documentaries directed and/or produced by Black filmmakers.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Event date 10-Jun
Event title IDA Teach Out: Black Women's Wellness
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Can film advance and energize Black Women’s Wellness? If so, how?

Using visual referenc...

Event date 01-Jun
Event title Membership Meeting: The Docu-Series with Editor Dominique Ulloa
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Join BADWest for its June 1, 2023 for our last presentation for 2022/2023: ...

Event date 13-May
Event title 16th ANNUAL DAY OF BLACK DOCS
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After two years of virtual events, BADWest is excited to announce the in-person return of our 16t...

Event date 04-May
Event title BADWest Zoom Pre to Post Workshop
Event description

Join BADWest for its May 4, 2023 presentation: I Need Help!...

PRE TO POST WORKSHOPS

Join us for pre to post workshops and discussions led by industry professionals sharing their expertise on all aspects of documentary filmmaking and career sustainability. Share works-in-progress and take part in the exchange of ideas that considerately guides and inspires creativity. Monthly meetings are open to anyone, with a minimal entrance fee for non-members.

ST. CLAIR BOURNE 4TH MONDAY COMMUNITY DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS

Named in honor of our founder, the late, award-winning documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne. Free, as part of our commitment to the South Los Angeles community, we screen documentary films that highlight stories from the Diaspora. 4th Monday screenings are an eclectic, skillful array of short and feature documentaries that push the art form, address the social climate and awaken history.

 
Wilhemina's War
In much of America, progress in HIV/AIDS treatment suggests the worst is behind us, but every year 50,000 Americans are still diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS. Astonishingly, it’s one of the leading causes of death of African American...
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Let the Little Light Shine
"Let the Little Light Shine follows a remarkable movement: a group of people, some white and some Black, upper-middle-class and low-income, advocating for Black children’s futures. It weaves from classroom to district boardroom, a student’s...
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One of Ours
Josiah Wilson was adopted as a baby in Haiti and raised in an Indigenous family in Calgary, Canada. Years later, when Josiah is racially profiled at an Indigenous basketball tournament and refused the right to play a sport he deeply loves, his...
271 Views
 
Out of the Muck
Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. We take a journey back home, with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, as he...
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GAME GIRLS
GAME GIRLS is a feature documentary about the hopes and dreams of women living on the extreme fringes of contemporary American society. It sheds light on the unseen and unheard stories Los Angeles' Skid Row, best known as "the homeless capital of...
870 Views
 
While I Breathe, I Hope
While I Breathe, I Hope is an upcoming feature documentary about South Carolina Politician Bakari Sellers that explores what it means to be young, Black, and Democrat in the American South.
1298 Views
 
Ferguson Rises
This is the story of the aftermath following the 2014 killing of Black teenager Michael Brown Jr. by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, and how his father strove for justice. The rising protest movement after Brown's death...
1635 Views
 
Spirits of Rebellion
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Independent Cinema from Los Angeles documents the lives and work of a small critically acclaimed group of black filmmakers and media artists known as the Los Angeles Rebellion, a group brought together through...
912 Views
 
ALL THE QUEEN'S HORSES
HOW COULD ONE WOMAN STEAL $53 MILLION WITHOUT ANYONE NOTICING? As city comptroller of Dixon, IL, Rita Crundwell stole $53 million of public funds across 20 years––making her the perpetrator of the largest case of municipal fraud in American...
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(T) ERROR
(T) ERROR is the story of a 62-year-old Black Panther-turned-counterterrorism informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is the first film to document a covert terrorism sting as it unfolds. With unprecedented access to both the...
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DAY OF BLACK DOCS

Approaching two decades, our signature event DOBD showcases premiere documentaries directed and/or produced by Black filmmakers. Held at the prestigious American Film Institute, the day brings together black filmmakers and enthusiasts with dynamic filmmaker panels and networking. It is a celebration of documentaries, which highlights the Black Experience and spotlights its filmmakers from around the world.

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