The Metro: Inaugural HBCU Student Film Festival is coming to Detroit
Detroit ACE Director Rochelle Riley joined the show to share more details about the new event.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan joined Autumn Sun Executive Director Bruce Clifton, Head of Michigan Central Civic Partnerships Nate Wallace, and city officials for a group photo at a press conference at Book Plaza outside New Lab.
A theme we often highlight on The Metro is Detroit’s robust arts community. Whether you see a giant mural or street art, creative minds are constantly churning around the city.
In recent years, especially with the creation of Tubi, more and more Detroiters are experimenting with film – creating, producing and acting in the industry.
And that’s why it’s so exciting that the city of Detroit and Michigan Central recently partnered with Autumn Sun, a grassroots organization dedicated to young, Black artists, that’s putting on the inaugural HBCU Student Film Festival — the first film festival of its kind.
Student creators will screen their films at Michigan Central on Aug. 23 and a competition winner will be awarded $10,000 on Aug. 24.
To tell us more about the film festival and what else is happening with The Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship for the city of Detroit, Director Rochelle Riley joined The Metro.
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The films will be screened at Newlab and will also feature panel discussions, Riley says.
“We have a huge film community here. Not just Tubi, although Tubi is smoking, but because we have so many people that want to do this whether we have film incentives or not,” Riley said. “We lost the film incentives but we didn’t lose the passion.”
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