Thu, Oct 22
13th Los Angeles Black Film Festival 2026
The story you carry does not look like the stories that get greenlit. The protagonist is too specific, the neighborhood too real, the ending too honest for a studio to touch. A hundred films have almost told it, and the distance between almost and exactly is the loneliest distance in cinema.
The Los Angeles Black Film Festival exists in that gap. Thirteen years running, LABFF takes over The Actors Company in West Hollywood from October 22 through 25 — four days of independent work by Black filmmakers that the mainstream circuit will not surface for another two years, if it surfaces them at all. Shorts. Features. Documentaries. The kind of films where the director is standing in the lobby afterward because they made it with their savings and a borrowed camera and they need you to understand why it matters.
The Let Live Theater and Other Space Theater at 916 North Formosa hold maybe a hundred people each. That is the point. At this size you do not just watch the film — you meet the person who made it. Parking is free on site and in the surrounding neighborhood.
October 22 through 25, 2026. Screenings at The Actors Company, 916 North Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood.
The story you carry does not look like the stories that get greenlit. The protagonist is too specific, the neighborhood too real, the ending too honest for a studio to touch. A hundred films have almost told it, and the distance between almost and exactly is the loneliest distance in cinema.
The Los Angeles Black Film Festival exists in that gap. Thirteen years running, LABFF takes over The Actors Company in West Hollywood from October 22 through 25 — four days of independent work by Black filmmakers that the mainstream circuit will not surface for another two years, if it surfaces them at all. Shorts. Features. Documentaries. The kind of films where the director is standing in the lobby afterward because they made it with their savings and a borrowed camera and they need you to understand why it matters.
The Let Live Theater and Other Space Theater at 916 North Formosa hold maybe a hundred people each. That is the point. At this size you do not just watch the film — you meet the person who made it. Parking is free on site and in the surrounding neighborhood.
October 22 through 25, 2026. Screenings at The Actors Company, 916 North Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood.
The Los Angeles Black Film Festival exists in that gap. Thirteen years running, LABFF takes over The Actors Company in West Hollywood from October 22 through 25 — four days of independent work by Black filmmakers that the mainstream circuit will not surface for another two years, if it surfaces them at all. Shorts. Features. Documentaries. The kind of films where the director is standing in the lobby afterward because they made it with their savings and a borrowed camera and they need you to understand why it matters.
The Let Live Theater and Other Space Theater at 916 North Formosa hold maybe a hundred people each. That is the point. At this size you do not just watch the film — you meet the person who made it. Parking is free on site and in the surrounding neighborhood.
October 22 through 25, 2026. Screenings at The Actors Company, 916 North Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood.
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The story you carry does not look like the stories that get greenlit. The protagonist is too specific, the neighborhood too real, the ending too honest for a studio to touch. A hundred films have almost told it, and the distance between almost and exactly is the loneliest distance in cinema.
The Los Angeles Black Film Festival exists in that gap. Thirteen years running, LABFF takes over The Actors Company in West Hollywood from October 22 through 25 — four days of independent work by Black filmmakers that the mainstream circuit will not surface for another two years, if it surfaces them at all. Shorts. Features. Documentaries. The kind of films where the director is standing in the lobby afterward because they made it with their savings and a borrowed camera and they need you to understand why it matters.
The Let Live Theater and Other Space Theater at 916 North Formosa hold maybe a hundred people each. That is the point. At this size you do not just watch the film — you meet the person who made it. Parking is free on site and in the surrounding neighborhood.
October 22 through 25, 2026. Screenings at The Actors Company, 916 North Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood.
The Los Angeles Black Film Festival exists in that gap. Thirteen years running, LABFF takes over The Actors Company in West Hollywood from October 22 through 25 — four days of independent work by Black filmmakers that the mainstream circuit will not surface for another two years, if it surfaces them at all. Shorts. Features. Documentaries. The kind of films where the director is standing in the lobby afterward because they made it with their savings and a borrowed camera and they need you to understand why it matters.
The Let Live Theater and Other Space Theater at 916 North Formosa hold maybe a hundred people each. That is the point. At this size you do not just watch the film — you meet the person who made it. Parking is free on site and in the surrounding neighborhood.
October 22 through 25, 2026. Screenings at The Actors Company, 916 North Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood.
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