If you’re a Black filmmaker, artist or scriptwriter, submit your work to NOIR FEST to join us in putting Black dreams on screen and amplifying aspirational Black stories and characters from across the globe.

NOIR FEST is the first of it’s kind digital film festival featuring the finest aspirational films from across the Black Diaspora. Through our integration of fine art and film curation and intuitive, meticulous technological design, we are committed to transforming the way Blackness is viewed and understood globally using visually stunning, aspirational films centered on believable Black heroes.

Through our quarterly virtual festivals, NOIR FEST is poised to become a dynamic movement catalyzing a paradigm shift in Black representation in global media, as well as a leading distributor of the most visionary Black films. During the Covid Era, our festival will take place online with live viewings, community dialogues, ratings, filmmaker Q&As and live DJs.

We are currently accepting submissions of films that reimagine the Black experience through visionary script-writing, multidimensional, rigorously developed characters, and stimulating imagery. Submissions will be judged by a Jury with extensive experience in Hollywood and in the Black art world.

Final selections will be screened during our virtual festival taking place Dec 5-12, 2020. Juried works will also receive cash awards, plaques and gift packages and will be supported in wielding additional resources for continued work and for distributing their films widely.

Submit your work here. Use NRFST2020 to bypass the deadline through Nov 8.

^{Pictured: Dudley O’Shaughnessy & Alassane Sy in Joseph Adesunloye’s White Colour Black, 2016.}