AfroSci Film Festival

The AfroSci Organization is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization started in 2018 to foster and showcase science-based visual content from African Diasporic filmmakers. Science communication has become a public concern because scientific understanding affects so many areas of contemporary life including health, the environment, space, natural resource preservation, and wildlife habitat. As citizens of the world, African diasporic filmmakers, scientists and science communicators are not typically included in the dissemination of media related to these critical fields of information. The mission of the AfroSci film festival is to bring science-based visual content to and from an often overlooked and ignored demographic. The festival will be a place for filmmakers of African descent to share experiences of science storytelling; engaged in creating content mix of inventive documentaries, thought-provoking scientific fiction, data and visualizations from research labs of black scientists (laboratory cinema), and experimental science film. The festival will also actively cultivate an interest in STEM education and scientific cinema from young black content creators.