Events
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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.
Happenings
This year, Black Public Media hosting virtual information sessions to help potential applicants learn more about our open call for climate stories, review all application requirements, and ask...
Freedom Summer Screening: Black Public Media is hosting virtual screenings this summer with fellow public media partners as we highlight stories on people and movements that personify liberation. In...
The ImageNation X Harlem Grand Open Streets Movie Series wraps up with a screening of Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes on Sat., August 19. Held on the James Baldwin Lawn at St. Nicholas Ave. and 135...
Freedom Summer Screening: Black Public Media is hosting virtual screenings this summer with fellow public media partners as we highlight stories on people and movements that personify liberation. In...
Freedom Summer: Black Public Media is hosting virtual screenings this summer with fellow public media partners as we highlight stories on people and movements that personify liberation. In July and...
The ImageNation X Harlem Grand Open Streets Movie Series kicks off with a screening of Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes on Fri., July 7. Held on 101 St. between Lenox and Park Aves., the event starts...
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.