THE ORIGINAL SINCE 1997
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Founder, Stacy Spikes, a former executive at Miramax and October Films, launched the Urbanworld Film Festival in August 1997. Since its inception, Urbanworld has presented over 500 features, shorts and documentaries, with an estimated attendance reaching 30,000. Now celebrating its 11th anniversary, Urbanworld has aligned with VIBE magazine, the preeminent media brand in urban music and culture, in an exciting partnership that will further establish the festival as the premiere platform for urban film content.The Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival is the largest internationally competitive festival of its kind. The four-day festival includes, feature, documentary, and short film screenings, as well as panel discussions, live staged screenplay readings, and the celebrated Actor’s Spotlight, with previous honorees including; Vondie Curtis, Samuel L. Jackson, Billy Dee Williams, and Rosie Perez.Over the last ten years, Hollywood studios have consistently chosen Urbanworld to premiere box office and award-winning hits, including:
Hustle & Flow, Collateral, The Best Man, Soul Food, Roll Bounce, The Fighting Temptations, Drumline, Hero, The Woodsman, Rush Hour 2, The Original Kings of Comedy, Hoodlum, HBO Films’ Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Paid In Full, Hair Show, Out of time, and more.
The Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival is an initiative of the Urbanworld Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to redefining the role of multicultural constituents in contemporary cinema by implementing programs and events that support the development and success of the urban filmmaking community.
SUBMISSIONS FOR THIS YEAR ARE CLOSED. BUT PLEASE COME OUT AND SHOW SUPPORT FOR YOUR FELLOW FILMMAKERS!
Stay tuned for the announcement of this years slate! We hope to see you all at the festival this year. Come out and network with established, and up-and-coming talented filmmakers. Come watch their groundbreaking material.
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Stacy Spikes does not maintain this webpage. It's the UWV Staff :)PHOTO STILLS FROM THIS YEAR'S FILMS
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