Let’s take a look by Lisa Osborne We are excited to announce that we have added a fourth residency to our BPMplus Initiative. The new program is a collaboration with the Johnny Carson Center at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We also are accepting applications for the third cohort of the MIT…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz Growing up in New York City and Los Angeles — in a family of migrants from Ohio and South Carolina — my family never celebrated Juneteenth. Honestly, I don’t think I’d even heard of the holiday until I was in college. That won’t be the case for…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz Last fall, American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact published a report titled, The State of Journalism on the Documentary Filmmaking Scene. The first and perhaps most important question authors Patricia Aufderheide and Marissa Woods explore in their report is whether the field of documentary filmmaking…

Features and shorts about the global Black experience are invited by Leslie Fields-Cruz My co-workers and I are gearing up for the next season of Black Public Media’s award-winning series, AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. To celebrate our 15th season, we’re revamping the application for our annual call for completed…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz Imagine a society where unarmed people of color aren’t getting gunned down regularly by hate-filled White men wielding automatic weapons. A society where the halls of justice aren’t so tilted in favor of incarcerating what too often feels like “just us.” One where misguided teenagers get the…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz I struggle to understand why anyone is truly shocked that Roe v Wade is on the verge of being overturned. For my entire adult life, anti-abortion advocates, politicians and voters have done everything they could to weaken and thwart the ruling. For them, the 2020 death of…

by Leslie Fields-Cruz PitchBLACK 2022 kicked off last night (April 25) with the first of several screenings scheduled for this week’s PitchBLACK Orlando Bagwell Online Film Retrospective. The streaming event, co-presented by BPM and GBH, launched with The Terrible Transformation — one of Orlando’s contributions to the highly acclaimed PBS…

April 25-May 1, 2022 By Leslie Fields-Cruz I am pleased to announce that in coordination with our PitchBLACK Forum and Awards program next week, Black Public Media has arranged for a week-long film retrospective in celebration of our 2022 Trailblazer Orlando Bagwell. …