Some of our current outreach projects and programs include:

The Chrysalis Experience: Life Purpose Roadmap where create a culture of sustainability by relating purpose to purpose
SEPTEMBER! a podcast for Loveships - exploring relationship as spiritual practice (all types of relationships)
working with LORDEAN LIGHT in Stained Glass Workshops
REVIVAL (The Q Light Revival Tour) - spreading more expansive stories about wealth; forest as our teacher
School—Online workshops, practice spaces and asynchronous courses

We are ready to LAUNCH!

Our goal is to grow access to Black feminist films and media-making skills for those under-represented in media. We do this so that we can, through cultural practice, make Growth & Transformation the standard for the best in the business. Because we believe culture is for growth.

Alexis and Sangodare founded Black Feminist Film School in 2010 and have been producing media and facilitating educational space ever since.

We are Framing the Future by creating more access to expansive storytelling. We are launching a) a podcast studio and media toolbank, b) a pool of bffs talent we can all draw from for our media projects, c) in-person and virtual programming including retreats. We met our goal of raising goal was $150k this year. It turned out not to all be through donations but we are grateful nevertheless. If you believe in our work and this vision, will you support our $500,000 goal by contributing to our 2026 intention of raising $250,000 by year's end:

making a robust donation today,
becoming a monthly sustainer and/or
let us know about experienced operations professionals you would recommend
inviting 5 friends to contribute as well.

Community is reaching out almost everyday for support with documentation, live streaming, audio/podcast solutions and guidance for them to make their first to fifteenth film. At the same time we know so many amazing individuals, businesses and organizations ready to tell their story and share their life-giving work. What we require most at this time is the right team member, the right "who" to hold down operations so we can build a deep, strong and sustainable foundation. The money we raise will partly go toward this rockstar partner or partners. This form of partnership will allow us to run self-sustaining programming. Sow a seed in our sustainable future if you are able.

Consider

What would be more possible in your life, your community, or the world you want to live in with the support of a multi-media movement sourced by a Black feminist love ethic?
How might you, your community and the world you want to live in benefit from more access to support and collaboration from Alexis and Sangodare and their/our bffs Network?

Wanna talk more? Reach out to alexispauline@gmail.com

Your contribution will allow us to:

Fully activate liberative media making and media discourse + expansive stories!

Raise visibility around Queer & Trans* abundance and gifts worldwide!

Create a culture rooted in sustainability (mutualistic forest style).

This is a key element in getting us connected to one another and expanding the stories around who and what we are... a gift to the world!

create a media tool bank
where bffs collective members and patrons can borrow and loan gear.
(we have the gear. we need the systems to manage and share it.)
establish a media maker talent pool
where you request and we can dispatch bffs students to projects and events to gain experience.
(we know amazing makers. we want to connect them to one another and you.)
produce, screen and fund media
where we get to co-produce community projects, host community artists in our media suites and more.
honor and gather our bffs makers/community
where we get to celebrate each other, host production intensives AND make sure the next generations know how to do the electric slide... you know, important shift!
activate communications, ops and admin systems
where we get to do an excellent job of keeping you informed, included and interested in our collective transformation!
(we have an amazing team on deck. they will not stay on deck forever though.)

If you got here from QUIRC or Mobile Homecoming, just so you know QUIRC is supporting this effort by connecting QBIPOC makers to us, one another and their would-be audiences.
Mobile Homecoming is activating the intergenerational imperative.

Our Identity

VISION

We see a world where Black feminists co-create together
with full and easy access to:

the transformative traditions and cultures of our lineages,
the techniques of mindful practice and
the generative tools of storytelling.

CORE VALUES

Mindfulness & Awareness
Consent
QBIPOC Leadership
Interdependence
Hospitality
Intergenerationality

Practice
Transformative Justice
Peace
Order
Accessibility
Humility & Self-Confidence

PURPOSE

More Expansive Stories

We use media to tell more expansive stories.

MISSION

**Normalize Growth & Trans*formation**

We make Growth & Transformation the norm for the best in the business. We make Black feminist and BIPOC Trans* leadership the norm.

The Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South is our bffs fiscal sponsor. We are grateful for their many years of love, nurturance and support!

RCWMS, EIN 59-1766535
Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the NC State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-807-2214 or 888-830-4989 for NC Residents. The license is not an endorsement by the state.

Black Feminist Film School

We Tell Expansive Stories, Making Transformation the Standard

Team Members