Inspired by our 2022 Queer Filmmaker Spotlight and our 2023 Black Film Club we bring you:
Get REAL’s Black Film Festival!
What is Get REAL’s Black Film Festival?
Dates: February 24th - 26th
Night 1: Documentary Films
Night 2: Feature Film
Night 3: Short Films & Panel
Location: Online
Perks: • Sign up to receive your Red Carpet Ticket, which comes with a snack kit!
• Prizing will be available during the festival!
How to enter: Post on your IG stories or DM us a photo of your movie watching kit/ at-home movie set up during our screenings and tag us @getrealmovement. Participants must attend at least 2 out 3 screening nights to be eligible to win!
Our Black Film Festival is a virtual space open to everyone 19+ to watch impactful Black films in a free, virtual setting that is structured, educational, accessible and fun!
We have screened a variety of docu/drama, feature films and shorts films! On the third night after the film screenings we host a virtual panel with filmmakers from the films screened during the week, to be able to learn insights of the films, advice on the film industry and much more!
Want your film to be featured in our Black Film Festival?
We have screened a variety of documentaries /dramas, feature films and shorts films in the last three years. During our Black Film Festival we also host a virtual panel with filmmakers from the films screened during the week.
Apply if you are a Black Canadian Creative who would like to screen your films or documentaries and take part in our Virtual Panel. Paid Honourarium.
Black Film Festival 2025
Throughout the week of February 25-27th, 2025 we screened: a Feature Film, a Documentary, and 6 Short Films, followed by a virtual panel with filmmakers from the films screened during the week, where we gathered unbelievable insights of the films and the industry!
This year our Red Carpet ticket holders received an at-home movie watching kit, containing:
•1x non-alcoholic drink from Grüvi
• 1x Purdys Chocolatier survival kit box of chocolate
• 1x bag of POKKO chips
Black Film Festival Selections 2025
Black Film Festival 2024
This year we screened a docu/drama, a feature film and 5 shorts films! On the third night after the short film screenings we hosted a virtual panel with filmmakers from the films screened during the week, where we were able to learn the insights of the films, advice on the film industry and much more!
Black Film Festival Selections 2024
Black Film Club 2023
Our Black Film Club 2023 was inspiring and valuable.
100% reported that the BFF gave them access to films they may not have know about or had access to otherwise
100% reported that they would participate again if possible
Black Film Festival Selections 2023
Thank you to our amazing partners and event sponsors for making this incredible event possible and allowing us to amplify the work of, and support Black artists in film.
This year we are delighted to connect with CultureBrew.Art, a digital platform created by radicalized artists for BIPOC artists. CBA features a Canada-wide searchable database of Indigenous and radicalized artists working in every artistic discipline: literary, media, performing, and visual arts.
