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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 13-May
Event title SAVE THE DATE! | 16th ANNUAL DAY OF BLACK DOCS
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We are back at the American Film Institute.

Q&A with Filmmakers of Featured Documenta...

Event date 06-Apr
Event title Membership Meeting: Brand Integration - with Consultant Kevin Kay
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Join us Thursday, April 6, 2023, 6:30PM - 8PM PST for Brand Integration<...

Event date 27-Mar
Event title 4TH MONDAY COMMUNITY SCREENING: Let the Little Light Shine
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National Teachers Academy (NTA) is considered a beacon for Black children: a top-ranked, high-per...

Event date 23-Mar
Event title MEMBER SPOTLIGHT - Jay Gerren, Bar Daddy Screening Invitation
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The California bar exam is one of the hardest bar exams in the United States to pass in order to ...

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.

 
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...
569 Views
 
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...
249 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...
376 Views
 
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...
861 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.
1278 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...
1606 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...
894 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...
3874 Views
 
(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...
3439 Views
 
UNAPOLOGETIC
After two Black Chicagoans are killed, millennial organizers challenge an administration complicit in state violence against its residents. Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look...
3511 Views

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.
 
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...
569 Views
 
ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP
ICEBERG SLIM tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim (1918 – 1992) and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of seven groundbreaking books.
1649 Views
 
SKIP DAY
Intimate glimpses of one very special day in the lives of high-school seniors from an industrial corner of the Florida Everglades: prom's over, the future is uncertain, and the irresistible pull of the beach makes the long-time friends drive 60...
58475 Views
 
Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream
In Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream, filmmaker Aurora Ferlin takes you into the heart of Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can foundation where former rival gang members re-invent themselves from predators to peacemakers.
1527 Views
 
Pacoima Stories: Land of Dreams
This story begins at a time before America was born. When Indians roamed the land and called this beautiful part of the San Fernando Valley, Pacoinga Village.
1842 Views
 
Liberty in a Soup
Haitian Independence Day tradition in which Haitians partake of a pumpkin base soup known as "Soup Joumou".
1802 Views
 
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...
1376 Views
 
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.
1753 Views

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