Get reacquainted with old and new friends at the Spring 2025 Director’s Welcome & Open House. This edition features Indianapolis-based filmmakers Deonna Weatherly and Ira Mallory, both IU alu...Read more

Paulin S. Vieyra (Jan. 31, 1925 – Nov. 4, 1987) was a filmmaker, critic, writer, and historian whose career is central to West African film history. 

The Black Film Center & Archive and the Center for Literature & Culture present the Melanated Movie Series in honor of Black History Month 2025. 

Black History Month at the Black Film Center & Archive kicks off with a screening of Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia.

In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted da...Read more

AfroFutures explores the role of cinema as a mode of storytelling for Black women, focused on the role of visual art in crafting disparate stories of Pan-African and African American women.

The Black Film Center & Archive and the Center for Literature & Culture present the Melanated Movie Series in honor of Black History Month 2025.

With two films, one narrative and the other documentary, filmmaker Gordon S. Williams brings the history of Beaumont, Texas to Bloomington.

AfroFutures explores the role of cinema as a mode of storytelling for Black women, focused on the role of visual art in crafting disparate stories of Pan-African and African American women.

The first installment of “HERstory, HIStory, Our Story” will be hosted at the Black Film Center & Archive.