Hollywood Black Film Festival 2008

HBFF 2008 Sponsors The official sponsors of the 2008 Hollywood Black Film Festival are 20th Century Fox, Ambi Skincare, Apple iTunes, Kodak and One Village Entertainment. Participating sponsors include the UK Film Council, Soft Sheen-Carson, bSide, Codeblack Entertainment, EURweb.com, Hennessy, Bombay Sapphire, Uncle Moki's, Emerson College, Heineken, Carnivo, Basquiat Vineyards of California, HER Energy Drink. The 2008 HBFF prize sponsors are Apple Final Cut Pro, Backstage, Baseline, Daily Variety, Film Specific, Final Draft, Fuji Film, Hollywood Creative Directory, Production HUB, Showbiz Software, and Writers Boot Camp. Promotional and donor partners include Black Talent News, BlackHollywoodUniversity.com, Bleu Entertainment PR, A Juke Joint Promotions, Mind Fusion Law Corp., Southern Girl Desserts, Tagg Team DJs, Def Jam, and Celebrity Nightlife Publicity.

ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD BLACK FILM FESTIVAL The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF), dubbed "The Black Sundance," is an annual 6-day celebration of black cinema drawing together established filmmakers, popular film and TV stars, writers, directors, industry executives, emerging artists and diverse audiences from Hollywood and around the world. Attracting such stars and industry insiders as Academy Award winners Forest Whitaker and Sidney Poitier, John Singleton, Spike Lee, George Tillman, Tina Andrews, Reuben Cannon, Anthony Anderson, Blair Underwood, Sanaa Lathan, Bill Duke, Sheryl Underwood and Vanessa Williams, the festival has become a hotbed for the Black Hollywood creative community. The 2008 festival will be held June 3-8, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California, and will showcase the artistic expression of more than 120 black filmmakers from around the world. In addition to the annual film festival, HBFF programs the HBFF Cinema Lounge and HBFF Film Finance & Distribution Summit. The HBFF Cinema Lounge is a monthly networking and screening program. The event screens 4 to 5 short films -- narratives, docs, music videos, animation, experiment -- giving filmmakers a venue, an audience, and feedback. The space is intimate, seating only 300 people, and the casual event features a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers, mingling and networking at the beginning and the end of the evening. The viewing audience provides filmmakers with comments on their projects through critique forms. At the HBFF Film Finance & Distribution Summit, held annually at the Writers Boot Camp in Santa Monica, CA, a senior roster of industry professionals including venture capitalists, private equity financiers, accountants, corporate finance executives, bankers, entertainment & finance lawyers, agents, producers and distribution executives share their insights on a broad range of film finance and distribution topics. For more information, visit our website http://www.hbff.org.