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The Black Film Center & Archive announces new director: Dr. Novotny Lawrence Novotny Lawrence will serve as the director of the Black Film Center & Archive beginning August 1. He will also join the Cinema and Media Studies program as an associate professor in the Media School. “The BFCA is world-renowned for Black film, and having the… Read more »

Black Filmmaker Interviews: Jessie Maple Patton The Black Film Center & Archive holds hundreds of rare interview recordings documenting the stories of Black film artists. In our ongoing monthly series, “The Black Film Center & Archive Presents: Black Filmmaker Interviews,” we will widely publish one previously-unreleased interview from our collections. In recognition of her recent passing, the Black… Read more »

BFCA Awarded NEH Grant to Process the Paulin S. Vieyra Collection The Black Film Center & Archive has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program for the full amount of $325,582. The BFCA will hire a processing archivist and an M.L.S. grad student for three years to… Read more »

Justin Williams Event & Visit to the BFCA Justin Williams is the Project Manager and Archivist at the University of Chicago’s South Side Home Movie Project (SSHMP). At this talk, they introduced new interactive features on the South Side Home Movie Project’s recently redesigned website (www.sshmp.uchicago.edu) that allow users to create and share “community tags”… Read more »

Happy Women’s History Month The BFCA’s collections include hundreds of original posters and promotional materials from productions across the breadth of Black film history. We rotated in a new themed exhibit of posters (entitled “A Woman’s Touch: Black Women and the Power of Solidarity”) to observe the start of the Fall 2022 semester. If you are… Read more »

Welcome, 2023! Happy New Year to you and your families, from all of ours! Thanks again for all of your love and support in 2022! We hope that you’ve had a great year and wish you the best into the new year, as well! The Black Film Center & Archive is back to normal business… Read more »

Season’s Greetings & Winter Break Hours Season’s greetings to you and your families, from all of ours! Thank you for all of your love and support in 2022! We hope that you’ve had a great year and wish you the best into the new year, as well! The Black Film Center & Archive will be… Read more »

Upcoming Event Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness In Italian Cinema – A call-to-action documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers never heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow the screening. Curated by Prof. Colleen Ryan of the IU Department of French and Italian. Co-sponsored by… Read more »

Job Announcement: Director, Black Film Center & Archive The Media School at Indiana University looks to hire the next director of its Black Film Center & Archive (BFCA), the only university-based archival repository in the world that is wholly dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available historically and culturally significant films by and about Black people…. Read more »

This week: Open House at the Black Film Center & Archive Come and check out the BFCA on September 7th or September 8th, 3:00pm – 4:30pm! As the semester starts, we wanted to open our doors to welcome you all to come take a look, meet us, and learn about our resources, facility, and history. We are located in Herman… Read more »