Hello AAFSA Family,

We invite you to check out the 2024 Black Star Film Festival, August 1 - August 4, 2024. The festival will be held in person in Philadelphia and virtually.

View the Schedule: https://watch.blackstarfest.org/blackstarfest

World Premier of *The Whites of Our Eyes" on August 4th, a short documentary film that follows Dr. Yaba Blay as she returns to her familial homeland of Ghana to explore the relationships between beauty, bodies, and b/Blackness. In addition to recreating the groundbreaking Clark Doll Test among school children, the film follows a young hustler as he prepares for his community's annual harvest festival by bleaching his skin. Amidst the ghost of colonialism and the gods of whiteness, "The Whites of Our Eyes" questions ideas and ideals of beauty in Ghana within the beauty of Ghana.

Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.blackstarfest.org/festival/passes/

All individual tickets can be purchased via blackstarfest.org/tickets. The cost is $7.50 per ticket for virtual screenings and $18 for in-person screenings.
You can access your purchased tickets by logging in and navigating to My Schedule or My Account (they will also be emailed to you). Each screening ticket will have a corresponding QR code that can be displayed on those pages. $175 gets patrons access to all virtual screenings.

Most films at the festival will be available to stream online globally unless otherwise noted.