Dubbed “The Black Sundance,” the Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) is an annual 4-day celebration of Black Cinema drawing together established filmmakers, popular film and TV stars, writers, directors, industry executives, emerging artists, and diverse audiences from Southern California and around the world. HBFF’s INFOTAINMENT CONFERENCE features a wealth of informational panels and workshops covering a wide variety of topics which include: film production, distribution and marketing, pitching, writing for television and film, in addition to specific programs designed to inform and educate actors.
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Director - Paul van Zyl
Producer: Stacy Ekstein
Exact Running Time - 22:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Website: http://www.elegy-movie.com
Synopsis:
Two friends oppose the apartheid-era government in South Africa. Their choice to use violence tears their relationship apart.
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Writer/Director/Executive Producer - Denzel Whitaker
Executive Producer/Writer - Barnaby Barrilla
Producer: Kasey Shirk
Exact Running Time - 8:00
Country of Production - U S A
Synopsis:
Operation: CTF is about a futuristic, weapon-based game of Capture the Flag, following four combative team members through a maze-structured warehouse in effort to complete their objective and win the game
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Producer/Director - Darious Britt
Exact Running Time - 9:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Synopsis:
A son is tired of bailing his mother out of trouble. In order to save her from herself, he must resort to extreme measures to confront her with the truth.
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Producer/Director - Eric Richardson-Hagans
Producer: Michael Francis
Exact Running Time - 22:00
Country of Production - U S A
Website: http://thebubblegumhit.com/
Synopsis:
A hired female assassin, with a impulsive fetish for the kill, becomes entangled between the target and the people that hired her to complete the hit.
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Director - Deatra Harris
Producer: Bryan Johnson
Exact Running Time - 20:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Website: http://www.whataboutus-themovie.com
Synopsis:
A family desperate to find their missing daughter soon realize their daughter's significance in society is based on their social and economic status.
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Director - Edrei Hutson
Producer: J'Vanne Yancy
Exact Running Time - 14:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Synopsis:
A mother and father are devastated to find out that their recently deceased daughter signed up to be an organ donor without their knowing. The family is divided as the father and two remaining daughters find comfort in corresponding with the organ recipients, while the mother sees the correspondence as a betrayal.
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Producer/Director - Brian Shackelford
Producer - Joyce Fitzpatrick
Exact Running Time - 16:00
Country of Production - U S A
Synopsis:
'Animal Control' is an outrageously funny, over-the-top mock reality show that pulls the veil off of reality television and shows exactly how these pieces of crap get made! Down and out Hollywood producer Allen Davies owes a lot of people money. After the unsuccessful attempts of his last few projects, let's just say finding work has been pretty slow. That is, until foreign investors hire Allen to produce a new reality show for American television.
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Director - Jeffrey Elmont
Producers - Bryan Smiley, Christina Northup, Marcus Dúpree
Exact Running Time - 11:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Synopsis:
Seven years after a police raid gone wrong, a detective is confronted with the consequence of his past mistake.
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Director - Evita Castine
Producer: Wentao Wang
Exact Running Time - 6:00
Country of Production - U S A
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SaudadeTheMovie
Synopsis:
James, lynched at the turn of the century, seeks his bride Sarah, whom he stumbles across in the present day. Dead set on having her see him, he haunts her, but it brings unexpected results.
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Director - Paul Aspuria
Writer - Juan Sotelo
Producers - Juan Sotelo, Raymund Aranda
Principal Cast - James Davis, Jr.; Raymund Aranda; and Vivian Yeung
Exact Running Time - 7:00
Country of Production - U S A
Synopsis:
An inside look at the wacky world of rival Staring champions as they train for the next World Championship and the affection of their Master guru.
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Director - A.R. Hilton
Producer: Joseph Francis
Exact Running Time - 24:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Synopsis:
When a troubled teen stumbles upon an ancient book he is confronted with his past, present and future through the life and death of a young African Prince. Now he must take actions to alter his fate or succumb to the same fate as the prince before him.
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Director - Xl Greene
Producer - Michael Watkins
Exact Running Time -6:00
Country of Production - U S A
Website/Trailer - http://www.djdog.tv/
Synopsis:
With the help of the mystical Brotha Vance, Tiger Woods embraces his African-American heritage to make a comeback and win the heart of the ultimate sista--Michelle Minaj
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Producer/Director - Andrea Ashton
Producer - Andrew Stoneham
Exact Running Time -16:00
Country of Production - U S A
Synopsis:
Two twenty-something strangers accidentally encounter one another in a park and forge an unexpected connection. Following which a spontaneous but yet short lived romance develops between the two.
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Directors - Sedric Veal, Jorge Sanchez
Producers - Carl Herard, Lanre Idewu, Tobijah Tyler
Exact Running Time -13:00
Country of Production - U S A
Synopsis:
Is true love escaping you? Has the love of your life passed you by because you couldn't get past her nagging friends? Well suffer no more, 'the Ultimate Wingmen' are here. No situation is too tough for the Ultimate Wingmen. This fearless, secretive, private, group of men are on call 24/7 to step in and interfere, occupy, or remove nagging friends so that hopeful men can meet their possible wives. But can they ultimately help their own founder Cain find true love? Time will tell, but the Ultimate Wingmen are here to stay!
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Director - Maya Washington
Producers - Freddy F. Hakimi, Samantha Manalang
Exact Running Time -9:00
Country of Production - U S A
Website/Trailer - http://whitespacepoetry.blogspot.com/
Synopsis:
White Space follows the inner life of a deaf performance poet as he makes his debut at an open-mic night for a hearing audience. Can the language of the heart emancipate the inner voice, transcending the white space between a hearing audience and a deaf man's soul?
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Producer/Director - Donre Walker
Producer - Joanna Ellenbeck
Exact Running Time -20:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Synopsis:
A team of military soldiers partner with state officials, to deal with social issues of returning troops from combat.They partner together and search for one individual to join their ranks. One interviewee has a dark secret that both defines her need to be on the team, but the horrors of war the team must face as a whole.
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Director - Bobby Mardis
Music Producer - Cholly J
Writer - Cholly J, Stephen Ashford & Bobby Mardis
Exact Running Time - 6:00
Country of Production - USA
Website: http://brotha2brotha.com/
Synopsis:
Young Black men in major metropolitan cities all around America are dying. Rappers from the San Francisco Bay Area have gotten together to express the issue via this music video. “Peace on the Streets” is a part of a film called "Black Male: An Endangered Species" which is an electrifying doc geared to address this issue and offer some solutions from felons, hit men, the Clergy, educators, crack heads, Bangers, community leaders and politicians.
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Producer/Director/Writer - Logan Williams
Exact Running Time -10:00
Country of Production - U S A
Synopsis:
When a depressed and introverted man comes home to his happy son, he has to recount the tales of the past in which an extortionist controlled his life.
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Producer/Director/Writer - Harold Jackson III
Exact Running Time -16:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Synopsis:
Best Selling Author Ezekiel Anderson is at a spiritual crossroads that is costing him his marriage. On the brink of divorce, a divine intervention hopes to remind Ezekiel of life's true gifts.
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Producer/Director/Writer - Harrell D. Williams, Sr.
Exact Running Time -28:00
Country of Production - U S A
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Synopsis:
A young man is upset that his father is set to re-marry. To stop the father from making what he thinks is a big mistake the young man devises a devastating plan which backfires.
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Director/Executive Producer - Ralph K. Scott
Writer/Producer - Kiara C. Jones
Exact Running Time - 20:00
Country of Production - USA
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Website: http://www.socialcinemaproject.com/
Synopsis:
A story about a man that desires a bond with his elderly father. He realizes that he is running out of time due to his father slipping further into dementia.. What he comes to realize is he needs to now turn his attention toward his own son.
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Writer/Director - Marquette Williams
Producers - Desi Green & Moni Boyce
Exact Running Time - 20:00
Country of Production - USA
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Synopsis:
Set in the dark futuristic world of Pearl City year 2040, “MALACHI IX” is a sci-fi supernatural drama about an alcoholic priest consumed with rage who struggles with the vow he has made to protect the city from vicious vampires and his lack of faith in the human race. His commitment is tainted by the breach of the blood source treaty, made 900 years ago, between the two governing bodies, the Holy Order Church and the Royal Republic of the Vicoy, inciting vampires to attack and leaving Malachi IX with no choice but to resentfully fulfill his commitment. Unfortunately, his crimes negligently executed push Daren Corbet, an arrogant but brilliant detective, to involve Malachi IX in his investigation to find the murderer. Daren’s only clue has been a list of seven names! Six of which are already dead… The seventh, Katlin Stone, is the name of a beautiful mysterious blood lab scientist, who he believes will be the next victim of the serial killer. Will he realize in time that “MALACHI IX” is the killer he desperately wants to catch?
