The New Orleans Black Film Festival and Foundation will harness the tax credit opportunity created by the Louisiana Legislature in 2001 to market the benefits of attracting potential urban filmmakers with budgets under $1 million to Louisiana. Our mission is to brand Louisiana as not only “Hollywood South, but Black Hollywood South.” We believe that there’s a gold mine in making and branding movies for the African American market here in Louisiana and then shown on networks with urban target audiences like BET, BETJ, TV One, with specific viewing demographics seeking quality entertainment content.

The New Orleans Black Film Festival and Foundation can be a model that can be used to produce African American entertainment and educational programs similar to the Sundance Film Festival model. Our goal is to provide ongoing training programs which will provide emerging filmmakers the tools, resources and network to create films, while simultaneously expanding the market place for commerce.

Louisiana has the opportunity to brand itself as the place for African Americans to make movies with the most support from state and local government, a diversity of filming locations, trained film crews and a large number of minority business to support any size venture.

In partnership with the Louisiana Film Commission, as well as local city governments in an effort to develop Louisiana as the place for African Americans to make their films. We ask for your support, as we present Louisiana as the ultimate place to make movies.