What is the Black Haven Film Festival?
Black Haven Film Fest is an annual, first-of-its-kind, short film festival that seeks to celebrate Connecticut’s black stories, filmmakers, and expression - but it’s also more than that. Media, Film, and Theater in Connecticut has long been co-opted by classism, elitism, and racism suffocating Black creatives and their stories. Black Haven Film Festival believes it’s time to break down the long-standing systems that keep excellent art from being supported, funded, seen, celebrated, and held at the status that it rightfully deserves.
Black Haven Film Festival 2023 is exploring the theme "Black Home" through belonging, coming of age, identity, and more. We are calling our filmmakers to submit their interpretation of what “Black Home” is and means to them.
Every year Black Haven partners with an organization/initiative to uplift in relationship to our theme.
