The Black Girls Movie Community (BWFN) lately introduced its lineup of honorees and programming for its annual Summit, set to happen on Saturday, March twenty first, at Atlanta’s Loudermilk Convention Middle.
Based in 1997, the BWFN has supplied Black ladies in leisure with an area for mentorship, alternative, advocacy, and trade entry. This 12 months’s theme, “Unbreakable Lens: The Energy of Group,” is alleged to give attention to the “collective energy, collaboration, and shared imaginative and prescient that proceed to drive Black ladies ahead each in entrance of and behind the digital camera.”
Amongst their 2026 honorees, the BWFN plans to honor veteran theatre, tv, and movie actor S. Epatha Merkerson (“Legislation & Order”), in addition to Oscar-nominated actress Danielle Brooks (“The Shade Purple”). Merkerson will obtain the On Her Shoulders Preservation Award for her lifetime of labor on the large and small screens, which at present features a starring position on NBC’s “Chicago Med.” Brooks will obtain the AcceleratHER Award, recognizing her dynamic vary and transformative impression throughout tv, movie, and Broadway; along with “The Shade Purple,” she will also be acknowledged for her breakout position in Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” and HBO’s “Peacemaker.”
Different honorees this 12 months embody showrunner, author, and producer Felicia Satisfaction (“A Totally different World”), AspireTV EVP Angela Cannon, Burke Leisure founder Vanzil Burke, and producer and CBS Studios/NAACP Enterprise president Sheila Duckworth.
As well as, the occasion will characteristic a lot of panels on points starting from utilizing AI instruments for movie and digital content material, addressing cultural change and psychological well being in media, and the artwork and enterprise of documentary filmmaking.
BWFN board chair Chiquita Lockely advised Selection“Our summit is about technique as a lot as celebration…We’re creating an area the place established powerhouses and rising voices converge to trade information, construct entry and form the way forward for storytelling. Honoring Black ladies who’ve sustained excellence throughout a long time whereas equipping the following era with sensible instruments is central to our mission.”
You may register for tickets on the BWFN official web site.