Black Public Media’s AfroPoP Digital Shorts monthly series celebrates Pride Month with the film Hands Performance. The film is the brainchild of Oakland director Rashaad Newsome, an artist, and a vogue scholar. They created an AI named Being the Digital Griot which is a non-binary robot that travels through space.Continue Reading
Black Public Media (BPM) awarded a total of $610,000 to film and immersive projects and creatives at its seventh PitchBLACK Forum — the largest pitch competition for independent filmmakers and creative technologists developing new projects about the global Black experience — at the PitchBLACK Awards on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The figure was theContinue Reading
Season 16 of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange returns with new films from the African diaspora with themes of redemption, magic, the supernatural and environmental racism. The Black Public Media and WORLD created series will air season 16 on their YouTube channels. The next season starts with Commuted from directorContinue Reading
The Redford Center has partnered with Black Public Media for BPM’s 2023 open call for climate stories. The center, which was co-founded by actors and activists Robert Redford and James Redford, is one of the only US-based non-profits dedicated to environmental impact filmmaking. Black Public Media will award a totalContinue Reading