2025

Thank you to our Sponsors & Partners

The 2025 BlackStar Film Festival is made possible with the support of our sponsors and partners, as well as our year-round supporters.

Festival Sponsors

Platinum
Open Society Foundations
Silver
Eventive
Bronze
Twenty43
Andscape
Visit Philadelphia
Critical Minded
Brass
Hyperallergic
American Friends Service Committee
PECO
Neon
Philadelphia Foundation
Firelight Media
Copper
SAGIndie
Pillars Fund
Criterion Collection
Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia
Storycorps
Color Congress
Kashif
Runway
Philadelphia Museum of Art
WORLD Channel
ITVS
Additional Support Provided By:
Delta Sigma Theta
Ten to One Rum
Monarch Yoga
University of Pennsylvania Cinema & Media Studies
People’s Media Fund
Black Public Media
Impact Partners
Comcast – Xfinity

Festival Partners

Elixr CoffeeFeng ShuiMoore VintageBlack Women PhotographersBlueprint CommercialBackstagePlant & PeopleBOMB MagazineThe Billie Holiday TheaterYouth FX – NeXt DocSouthern Documentary FundWomen Make MoviesA-Doc (Asian American Documentary NetworkArab Film and Media InstituteFreedom Hill Youth Media CampDottie’s DonutsInternational Documentary AssociationMezcla Media CollectiveAXS LabPhiladelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the ArtsBe Reel Black Cinema ClubBrown Girls Doc MafiaIndegoAsian Arts InitiativeWURDThird Horizon Film FestivalArt-Reach

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