PARTNERSHIPS

Creatively Speaking

Over the course of 23 years, Creatively Speaking has become the leading, curated film series offering a diverse forum that highlights independent film by and about women and people of color. Working outside the mainstream, often with limited resources, the filmmakers represented in the Creatively Speaking Film Series provide a model for working within and around a historically underrepresented system that continues to this day. Our mission is to change the cultural narrative, one image at a time, and to expand audiences for independent film and video artists of color through community screenings, followed by lively and thoughtful discussions about the subject matter, as well as the art and craft of filmmaking.

The Luminal Theater

The Luminal Theater is a nomadic cinema that provides fully-curated exhibitions of diverse cinema and media of the Black/African diaspora (African-American, African, Caribbean, Afro-European, etc.), allowing these artists to present their work within our unique brand of shared audience experiences, centered in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy), Brooklyn, Central Brooklyn, and surrounding communities.   

In a rapidly-changing Brooklyn, we excel at keeping Black art alive through the cinematic arts.

In making these films and filmmakers accessible to the community beyond film festivals and web/streaming services, and viewed in a collective environment — as cinema is best utilized as a shared audience experience — we serve this community’s diverse and growing population of filmmakers, film enthusiasts, multiple discipline artists and art-minded people which Bed-Stuy possesses and attracts in abundance.  

Cinema Conservancy Collection
at Harvard Film Archive

In association with Harvard Film Archive, Cinema Conservancy maintains a collection of American independent film prints in order for them to be preserved and made readily available for exhibition and educational use.