FRESH BLACK FILMS

FRESH BLACK FILMS is an ongoing series connecting our audience to dynamic new work from Black filmmakers and storytellers across the diaspora.  

 
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FRESH BLACK FILMS NORTH [FALL ED. - NEWARK]
Nov 21
FRESH BLACK FILMS NORTH [FALL ED. - NEWARK]

We end our 2024 run of films in “Brick City” - Newark, NJ with exciting new partners

Fresh Black Films South [Fall ed. - BIRMINGHAM]
Nov 12
Fresh Black Films South [Fall ed. - BIRMINGHAM]

Our emerging Black filmmaker series continues in “The Magic City” - Birmingham, Alabama!


FRESH BLACK FILMS NORTH [SUMMER ED. - BALTIMORE]
Aug 15
FRESH BLACK FILMS NORTH [SUMMER ED. - BALTIMORE]

Join us for the second Northeast edition of our emerging Balck filmmaker series, now taking place in arts rich Baltimore

Fresh Black Films South - [Summer ed. - DURHAM]
Jul 25
Fresh Black Films South - [Summer ed. - DURHAM]

Our emerging Black filmmaker series continues in the Bull City - Durham, NC!

Fresh Black Films - South [Spring ed. - ATLANTA]
May 16
Fresh Black Films - South [Spring ed. - ATLANTA]

FRESH BLACK FILMS makes it to Atlanta for the first of our Southeast editions

Fresh Black Films - North [Spring ed. - BROOKLYN]
Apr 26
Fresh Black Films - North [Spring ed. - BROOKLYN]

Our emerging Black filmmaker series FRESH BLACK FILMS returns for the first of our Northeast editions

FRESH BLACK FILMS - spotlight on Ellie Foumbi
Mar 28
FRESH BLACK FILMS - spotlight on Ellie Foumbi

Fresh Black Films returns with a spotlight on the films of ELLIE FOUMBI, a filmmaker on the cusp, as she takes her fresh perspective into her first feature

FRESH BLACK FILMS - the 'Wayfinding' edition
Aug 17
FRESH BLACK FILMS - the 'Wayfinding' edition

The theme of our second edition is WAYFINDING. Our characters are trying to find their way. Will they succeed...or will they fall far off the desired paths?


FRESH BLACK FILMS - May 2020
May 19
FRESH BLACK FILMS - May 2020

FRESH BLACK FILMS is our new showcase exposing fresh audiences to new dynamic work from Black filmmakers. Now STREAMING via Vimeo.

About The Luminal Theater

Founded in 2015, The Luminal is a nomadic cinema that provides fully-curated exhibitions of diverse cinema and media of the Black/African diaspora, allowing these artists to present their work within our unique brand of shared audience experiences, centered in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy), Brooklyn, and expanding beyond.   The Luminal absorbed its former theatrical offshoot, the Brooklyn Cinema Collective, in 2018.