5 Important Moments That Happened At The 2022 American Black Film Festival

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Insecure during the 2017 festival. It was a full-circle moment as Rae’s new series Rap Sh!t, which she shared was inspired by her first trip to ABFF, closed out this year’s festival.From stirring documentary screenings to hilarious cast panels, keep reading to find out what else went down at this year’s star-studded festival event.Featuring civil rights attorney Ben Crump, CIVIL is a documentary that chronicles Crump’s efforts to win settlements for victims of financial, environmental, and civil rights violations.

It was the first time that a documentary opened the festival, and the film was introduced by Crump, Nadia Hallgren, the movie’s Emmy-nominated director, and Kenya Barris, who served as one of the producers on the project.“The documentary highlights the value of Black life – not just in America, but in the world.

We have to continue to fight to make it financially unsustainable for them to kill Black people unjustly,” Crump told reporters on the red carpetThe film chronicles Crump’s high-profile cases like Breona Taylor and ends with the verdict of Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George Floyd.

The documentary is now available to stream on Netflix. Several of the cast members of Peacock’s most-streamed original series, Bel-Air, came together to talk about what being on the show meant to them personally and professionally.