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Through a series of workshops and mentoring, the Boot Camp is designed to accelerate the production of film and immersive projects and prepare each team to pitch for production funding of up to $150,000 at BPM’s PitchBLACK.

Film Fellow

Film Fellow

Film Fellow

Film Fellow

Film Fellow

Film Fellow

Film Fellow

Film Fellow

Film Fellow
Zenón
A film about the life of Puerto Rican fisherman and revolutionary, Carlos “Taso” Zenón. At sea, Taso fought against the US Navy’s occupation and exploitation of his native island (Vieques).
Director: Juan C. Dávila
Producers: Camila Rodriguez, Juan C. Dávila
75 Park
Everettte Hamlette returns home from college to find his favorite neighborhood park is being torn up and rebuilt. Asking why, he uncovers a troubling history— and reluctantly sets out on a journey for justice.
Director: Everette Hamlette
Producers: Everette Hamlette, Graham Meriwether, Craig T. Williams
Allensworth: The Town That Refuses To Die
Black and Latinx residents in California’s Central Valley unite against a worsening environmental crisis and systemic racism. Allensworth, once an all-black settlement, becomes a battleground for justice as residents attempt to save “the town that refuses to die.”
Director: Daryl Jones, Tim Tsai
Producer: Krisitin Lesko
Untitled Cop City
For decades, activist Dr. Jacqueline Echols has been combating environmental racism in Atlanta, where Black communities are disproportionately threatened from climate change and gentrification. This observational documentary chronicles her most remarkable undertaking yet: defending one of Atlanta’s remaining forests and the surrounding Black community from the city’s plans to construct the largest police training facility in America, “Cop City.”
Director: Jason Goldman
Producer: Emily Kuester
Infertile Ground
Infertile Ground looks at the crisis of Black fertility due to climate change. Through several interconnected stories this film explores the pain, frustration, and joy as Black families navigate the rocky path to parenthood as the air gets dirtier, the world warms up, and extreme weather becomes commonplace.
Director & Producer: Reniqua Allen-Lamphere

Immersive Fellow

Immersive Fellow

Immersive Fellow

Immersive Fellow

Immersive Fellow

Immersive Fellow

Immersive Fellow

Film Fellow
Pilot Coltrain
Pilot Coltrain is a science-fiction, third-person, action-adventure game created and written by Johannes Barfield. The story follows the adventures of Pilot Coaltrain, a former archaeologist responsible for returning looted artifacts and human remains to the communities in which they belong.
Creator: Johannes Barfield
ECHOES
ECHOES is an immersive art installation about the disproportionate instances of Black and Immigrant Britons who have died at the hands of the police since record keeping began in 1969.
Director: Baff Akoto
Producer: Lids-Ama Appiah
Image Frequency Modulation
A nonlinear work investigating the sonic, visual, and haptic frequencies of images, ancestral memory, oral transmission, and metaphors of radio technologies as sites of possibility for the African diaspora.
Creator: Ethel-Ruth Tawe
Museum of Black Joy: Ring Shouts, Rituals & Rising Signs
Ring Shouts, Rituals & Rising Signs will encompass a 4-wall, video installation conceived as a cultural embrace, resonating with a multimedia narrative that centers Black joy as it emerges from history, triumphantly, with style, creativity, and grace.
Creator: Andrea Walls
Natal Dimension
Natal Dimension is a research-based, multimedia series presented through virtual worlds, art installation, and performance. Travel through an alternate African, indigenous reality to recover ancestral technology as potential antidotes to the Anthropocene.
Creator: Jazsalyn
axé meus ancestrais (asé my ancestors) is a mixed-reality installation exploring Black narratives of the past, present, and future through XR technologies. Interweaving live theatrical performances with XR projects in a space that represents a grandmother’s house, ORIXA highlights the connection between identity, ancestrality, and mental health by celebrating the African diaspora.
Creator: MaryAnn Talavera