The 19th annual Seattle Black Film Festival will once again animate the halls of the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in Seattle’s historically Black Central District, April 29 – May 1. The three-day weekend of in-person and video-on-demand screenings, panels, and events will host an international selection of over forty feature films, music videos, documentaries, and short films; showcasing the range and depth of the Black experience on the big screen.The 2022 festival will feature a melanin-rich blend of curated and official selection works from four continents. We’ll kick off on Friday, April 29th at 6pm with our traditional Evening of Black Cinematic Brilliance short film showcase; beginning with a mixer and happy hour, where guests and filmmakers are invited to gather in celebration of Black brilliance. Following the mixer, our short film showcase will begin at 7 pm with a powerful line-up of local, national, and international narratives. We’ll bring the festival to a close on Sunday, May 1st with an exceptional presentation by special festival guests, WACO Theater Center Co-Artistic Directors, Richard Lawson, and Tina Knowles Lawson of the documentary film The Evolution of African Dance and the behind-the-scenes short documentary of the making of Black Terror.

Interested in attending the full at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center?  Purchase Film Festival passes here