Black Joy in Film and Black Cinema: This keynote will focus and touch upon the following:

• Black Love & Black Joy.
• An opportunity to look at Black life through the lens of love and view our humanity.
• The film is a love letter for the black community that we want everyone to read.
• Creating our own positive, multi-layered images and narratives that are not centered around Black trauma.
• Overcoming the social conditioning that says something bad will happen that prevents us from realizing our dreams.
• The film is a way to rewrite our history in a way that’s not always rooted in struggle. It gives people a way of leaving cynicism at the door.