I could very be wrong, but I just assumed that filmmakers - black filmmakers specifically - with completed films, who see a film festival circuit tour in the future of their films, are submitting them to festivals all over the world, and not just here in the USA, and certainly not just the popular ones. In a chat with a filmmaker last night, who recently completed a feature film, and was in the process of submitting it to film festivals for consideration, I was a bit surprised when he listed those film festivals he was planning to target with his film, and they were all local - as in, USA-based. As I repeated to him, I certainly hope that black filmmakers here in the States...
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