Women of African Descent Film Festival

The 21st Annual Women of African Descent Film Festival presented by The Brooklyn Chapter of The Links now opens its CALL FOR ENTRIES. Please contact wadffbklyn@gmail.com with questions regarding the Festival.

MISSION & OBJECTIVE: To showcase films that are centered around the theme of Linkages: Women, Their Families, Neighborhoods, and the Global Community, and to support the artistic development of Women filmmakers of African Descent by providing a supportive exhibition platform, offering stipends to participants, and seeking industry opportunities that will help to expose the filmmakers’ works and further their careers.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: The Women of African Descent Film Festival (WADFF) is celebrating its 21st Anniversary in 2023. We seek to change the narrative and uplift and spotlight positive images of people of African descent ensuring that our positive accomplishments, uplifting experiences, and gifts to humanity are given the exposure and attention they so richly deserve. The Brooklyn Chapter believes it is vitally important that our legacy be maintained, nurtured and preserved and it is our responsibility to shape the public’s perception of who we are as a people. Through the medium of film, filmmakers of African descent document and relay the stories of our past, present, and future. They have become the new historians – “preservers of our legacy.” The Brooklyn Chapter realizes that many societal misconceptions start with how negatively we are portrayed in the media. To counteract the adverse portrayal of African Americans in the movies and media, the Brooklyn Chapter, in 2002, initiated Linkages: Women of African Descent Film Festival. By choosing and screening films that depict the positive linkages that women of African descent have to their families, neighborhoods and communities, the Festival is able to effectively influence the perceptions of glorious women of African descent through the medium of film.