501(c)(3) · Every gift is tax-deductible

Help us put this year’s festival on the screen.

Bushwick Film Festival is a women-owned nonprofit that discovers emerging filmmakers and puts their work in front of a real audience. Your donation funds this season directly: the venues, the projection, the free screenings, and the filmmakers we bring to Brooklyn.

Gifts are put to work the week they arrive, with no campaign deadline to wait for.

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Where we are right now
1,000+Films submitted each year
5,000Attendees across five days
100Indie films programmed from NYC and beyond
12%Share of U.S. film festivals owned by women of color, and we are one

What your donation holds up

We run on a small budget and a lot of volunteer hours. Donations go straight into the programs below rather than overhead.

Public programming

Free screenings open to the public

Free screenings during the festival, and at select events through the festival month.

Filmmaker education

Classes, workshops, and conversations for emerging filmmakers

Hands-on craft and career sessions built for underrepresented storytellers who don’t have a studio behind them.

The festival itself

Five days of screenings, panels, and awards

Venues, projection, staff, and the industry conference where filmmakers meet the people who can hire them.

Audience at a Bushwick Film Festival screening Filmmaker panel in front of the 2024 official selection screen Bushwick Film Festival award trophies

Photographs from recent editions of the festival.

Prefer to mail a check, or want to talk about a larger gift? Write to info@bushwickfilmfestival.com.

Bushwick Film Festival is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit and an MWBE organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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