Creative Capital Awardees at BlackStar Film Festival
July 31–August 3, 2025
Various venues in Philadelphia, PA and online.
Catch films by Cherien Dabis (2015 Awardee), Crystal Kayiza (2021 Awardee), Kevin Jerome Everson (2001 Awardee), Christopher Harris (2015 Awardee), Cauleen Smith (2008 Awardee) and part of Allison Janae Hamilton’s (2019 Awardee) Creative Capital project Celestine (Florida Storm) at the 14th annual BlackStar Film Festival celebrating Black, Brown, and Indigenous filmmaking.
Cherien Dabis
No End In Sight
Cherien Dabis is an award-winning narrative filmmaker, television writer and producer.
Crystal Kayiza
The Gardeners
Crystal Kayiza is a filmmaker whose work reimagines the aesthetics used to tell stories about Black folks across generations and landscapes.
Kevin Jerome Everson
A Week in the Hole
Kevin Jerome Everson’s films are performative explorations into African American culture.
Christopher Harris
Speaking in Tongues
Christopher Harris is a filmmaker whose films and video installations read African American historiography through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema.
Cauleen Smith
Remote Viewing and Other Ways of Seeing
Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination.
Hamilton Allison Janae
Celestine
Allison Janae Hamilton (b.1984) is a visual artist working in sculpture, installation, photography, and film.