Events

Black Public Media hosts several events annually. We also partner with a variety of organizations
on professional development training and public screenings. Check out our upcoming events below.

African Diaspora Film Club: Queen Kidjo

May 16, 2023

June 11, 2023 For our bi-monthly African Diaspora Film Club, Film Club curator, Cornelius Moore, will be hosting a virtual conversation with directors Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz to discuss Can...

AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Season 15 Artist Chat

May 4, 2023

In our celebration of 15 seasons of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, Black Public Media’s Executive Director Leslie Fields-Cruz chats with former AfroPoP directors and producers on our...

PitchBLACK Forum & Awards

April 25, 2023

APRIL 25-27, 2023 Black Public Media will hold its sixth PitchBLACK Forum — the largest pitch competition for Black, independent filmmakers and creative technologists in the United States — on April...

PitchBLACK: Yoruba Richen Retrospective

April 24, 2023

APRIL 24-MAY 8, 2023 In honor of the 2023 Trailblazer recipient, Yoruba Richen, Black Public Media will host a two-week retrospective of Richen’s work. Selected projects from her filmography...

Black Media Story Summit: COVID & Vaccine Equity

March 3, 2023

MARCH 3, 2023 The Black Media Story Summit – COVID and Adult Vaccine Equity is an opportunity for creatives to connect, network, and brainstorm story ideas with Michigan and North Carolina...

NPT’s American Masters In the Making – Rissi Palmer: Still Here Screening

March 2, 2023

MARCH 2, 2023 Nashville Public Television and American Masters had a screening of American Masters In the Making – Rissi Palmer: Still Here, Thursday, March 2 in Nashville Public Television’s Studio...

PitchBLACK

PitchBLACK is Black Public Media’s dynamic pitch forum and awards program for documentary and immersive media makers. Each year, media makers in film and immersive media come together to pitch their projects to a panel of industry executives and funders in hopes of being awarded up to $150K in project funding. Winning projects often go on to be distributed on various public media outlets.

African Diaspora
Film Club

In collaboration with the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, BPM co-produces a bimonthly series of virtual conversations with Black media storytellers from across the globe. The free, online discussions are moderated by California Newsreel Co-director Cornelius Moore and are attended by filmmakers, educators, students, artists, and documentary film lovers.

Black Media
Story Summits

Since 2018, BPM has hosted two national Black Media Story Summits, and several regional and topical story summits in Baltimore, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Michigan Newark, North Carolina, and Houston. The purpose of these gatherings is to bring media makers together with other community stakeholders so they can explore ways that media makers might create content that captures the Black experience and inspires change.