BFS WEEKEND - COMMUNITY SCREENING LOGLINES
BlackBerry Winter
Jason Hightower | Director & Producer
A fairytale Valentine’s Day takes a turn when Amber, our Georgia Peach living in the Big Apple, sees an unexpected text message in her boyfriend’s phone. Launched into a journey of self-discovery, with a future that is uncertain, Amber questions whether to follow her head or her heart to find her way forward.
Dear Life
Destinee Easley | Director
After suffering multiple losses, Matti and Kalea struggle to navigate grief as a couple. Each expecting the other to mourn the same way they do. As their healing paths clash, will they support each other in their grief or abandon one another in their time of need?
Forward
Mar'Shon Dalton | Writer, Exec. Producer & Actor
Struggling with his mother’s recent death, a painter faces an impossible choice: take a chance on a promising artistic opportunity or hold onto the childhood home they once shared.
Juliette’s Miracle on St. Nick
Antwand Pearman | Writer & Director
When a kind elderly woman receives a visit from a magical cat, she is granted one final night of youth, transported to a 1970s Harlem jazz club filled with music and peace, before a mysterious crow arrives to bring the night to an end.
Kill
Folajimi Olutiola | Writer & Director
Two writers must decide whether to let the main character of their script live or die.
OUR SONG
Stephanie Glover | Director, Co-Writer & Producer
A father knows his son is different in a way the world may not understand, so he keeps guiding him toward the safer paths, the gentler dreams. He believes it's protection. But when his son comes home with a dream of his own, Dad must choose: keep steering him away, or trust that his boy's light is meant to be seen.
Tale of a...SUNDOWN Town
Shadrach Akoi | Writer, Director & Editor
An Afro-Surrealism BFA Student Film. A Rod Sterling Architype narrator telling a story of a spring break road trip that takes a terrifying turn. Four black HBCU college students and a white friend strays into a Sundown Town frozen in its racist past. As night falls, they must outwit hostile locals, unearth buried family secrets, and confront a town where the setting sun signals open season on outsiders like them.
The Love Machine
Jasmine Lynea | Director, Writer & Editor
After successfully building a time machine that uses love to help heal and replace harmful childhood memories, a teenage scientist/influencer puts his new invention to the test to challenge intergenerational trauma.
ZEKE
Kerry Coddett | Writer, Director & Actor
Zeke is a comedy thriller about a man who gets his hairline messed up by a well-respected barber and keeps going back… until one visit pushes him past the point of no return.