Bermuda Black Film Festival
presents
Welcome to the Bermuda Black Film Weekend
October 15th - 18th, 2026
The Heart of the Black Atlantic
Bermuda occupies a unique place in the story of the African diaspora. Positioned at the colonial crossroads of Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe, the Bermuda Black Film Weekend serves as a gathering place for filmmakers, creatives, and cultural leaders to explore storytelling, histories, identities, and the futures that connects us across oceans and generations.
More Than a Festival
A cinematic journey through the Black Atlantic, connecting global storytellers across borders and generations.
Connecting Voices of the Diaspora
There are stories at the bottom of the Atlantic that never made it to shore. There are filmmakers in Hamilton, in Kingston, in Port-au-Prince, in Atlanta, in London, who are telling the stories their grandmothers carried, with cameras instead of memory, and still cannot get them into the rooms where they need to be seen.
Bermuda sits at the exact coordinates where those worlds converge.
32°N, 64°W.
The heart of the Black Atlantic.
A place that has watched the ships pass for centuries, carrying our histories in both directions, and has never forgotten what was lost along the way.
The Bermuda Black Film Weekend is the gathering that was always supposed to happen here.
We are calling the filmmakers, the directors, the producers, the writers, and the storytellers of the Caribbean, of Black America, of the African continent, and of every diaspora community that has been building its own screen culture in the margins of an industry that was not built for us.
We are calling you to Bermuda.
To stay in the room. To share what we know. To put our distribution networks, our creative vision, and our collective power on the same table and decide together what Black screen culture looks like for the next generation.
Because the stories of the Black Atlantic are not waiting to be discovered. They are already here. And so are the people who will tell them, fund them, distribute them, and make sure the children coming behind us inherit an industry that was built by us,
not just one we found our way into.
The stories that have been lost in the Black Atlantic are not gone. They are waiting.
And the people who can tell them are ready.
Voices Across the Diaspora.
This is where they converge.
Bring yours.
We welcome films that explore the diverse experiences, histories, cultures, and futures of Black communities around the world.
Call for Entries
Bermuda Black Film Weekend is now accepting submissions for narrative films, documentaries, student films, short films, and innovative works from across the Black Atlantic and wider African diaspora.
Bermuda Black Film Weekend proudly accepts entries on FilmFreeway, the world's #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests.
Partner With Us
Some of the most important stories in the world are still waiting to be told, because the people who carry them have never had the room, the resources, or the industry access to tell them.
The Bermuda Black Film Festival exists to change that.
We are looking for organisations that do not simply celebrate diversity but actively invest in it: through funding, mentorship, access, and advocacy for women, girls, and people of colour across the creative industries.
Whether you are a corporate entity, a foundation, a cultural institution, or an independent organisation, if equity and representation sit at the centre of your work, there is a place for you here.
Our current events include the Bermuda Black Film Weekend, our flagship event, and partnership with GIFTED Youth Conference, bringing together girls in Film, Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Both programmes are built on the belief that representation begins long before the credits roll.
We want to hear from you.
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