(BPRW) BLACK Girls Film Network TO Celebrate 25TH ANNIVERSARY AT Annual BWFN SUMMIT ON SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2022
The virtual encounter will be hosted on Cvent Registration is now open at blackwomenfilm.org
(Black PR Wire) – ATLANTA – Black Females Film Network (BWFN), celebrating 25 years of preserving the voices of Black girls in film and television, will host its annual BWFN Summit on Saturday, March 5, 2022 from 12:00PM to 6:00PM EST. For the second consecutive 12 months, the BWFN Summit will be hosted on the Cvent Attendee Hub, and will take put as a cost-free virtual expertise throughout Women’s Background Month. The half-working day party will characteristic panels, grasp classes and fireside chats by industry gurus. Registration is now open at blackwomenfilm.org.
The theme this yr is “The Shoulders We Stand On: Celebrating 25 Many years of BWFN Legacy.” With nearly 40 speakers symbolizing prime brand names this sort of as iHeartMedia, WME, ALLBLK, Netflix, Life span, Effects Companions and far more, the BWFN Summit is continuing a a long time-long custom of elevating Black gals in the arts and amusement as a result of schooling, assets and networking.
The 2022 BWFN Summit also welcomes the return of the BWFN Reserve Pageant, a curated roundtable of accomplished authors focused to uplifting and preserving Black society by way of storytelling and information and facts.
Lastly, BWFN will existing its prolonged-working Scholarship Software with several $1,000 awards likely to school pupils pursuing occupations in film and television.
“Twenty-five a long time ago, my Georgia Condition University film instructor advised me the world essential to listen to stories instructed by Black women of all ages,” suggests Sheryl Gripper, who started BWFN in 1997 in Atlanta. “He requested what I was likely to do about it. With the help of a visionary team of girls, I fashioned the Black Girls Movie Community. That eyesight continues nowadays with the leadership of our 25th Anniversary Board Chair Saptosa Foster.”
“I certainly feel there’s no superior time to be a Black woman in film and television than currently,” suggests BWFN Board Chair Saptosa Foster. “More than at any time, Black women are foremost, generating and directing the tales we have been seeking to see for many years. This is the eyesight our founder Sheryl Gripper imagined 25 several years in the past. And even though we haven’t however fully realized that vision, supplying experiences like the BWFN Summit gives us hope that one day Black ladies will not have to wrestle to obtain their rightful put in movie and tv.”
To register for No cost to attend the BWFN Summit, check out blackwomenfilm.org.
Follow us on Instagram (@blackwomenfilm) or Facebook (BlackWomenFilmNetwork) for impending bulletins on honorees, speakers and a lot more.
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