THE 13TH AMENDMENT

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 Tuesday 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.

ST. CLAIR BOURNE 4TH TUESDAY 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 Tuesday 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

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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...

Let the Little Light Shine

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"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...

One of Ours

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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...

Out of the Muck

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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...

GAME GIRLS

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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...

While I Breathe, I Hope

1304 views

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.

Ferguson Rises

1639 views

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...

Spirits of Rebellion

917 views

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...

ALL THE QUEEN'S HORSES

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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...

(T) ERROR

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(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...