Celebrating Our 5th Anniversary

Baltimore International Black Film Festival

October 2-8 2018

“Early Bird” ALL ACCESS PASSES

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OPENING NIGHT FEATURED FILM

OPENING NIGHT FILM

Out of My Hand

Screening: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 @ 7pm (Charles Theatre)

Synopsis :

Out of My Hand is a narrative feature film about a struggling Liberian rubber
plantation worker, Cisco, who risks his family and home to discover a new life as a
Yellow Cab driver in New York City.

Director’s Bio : Takeshi Fukunaga is a Japanese filmmaker based in New York. He is an
alumnus of IFP First Feature Lab and Berlinale Talents. His first feature film, Out of My
Hand, premiered in the Panorama section at Berlin International Film Festival and won
the Best U.S. Fiction Award at LA Film Festival. Takeshi was nominated for the 2016
John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award and won the 2015 Emerging Filmmaker
Award by Pacific Arts Movement. Takeshi is currently working on his second feature film
as a resident of the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation residency.

Venues and Sponsors

BIBFF 2018 – Feature Film Synopses

The Baltimore International Black Film Festival (BIBFF) promotes and celebrates

culturally significant short films, feature films and web series directed, produced, and

staring African American and members of the African Diaspora. We also prominently

feature and celebrate films with content of interest to the Same Gender Loving – Bisexual

and Transgender (SGL-BT) community. Our mission is to couple the film festival with

education, health and exhibition programs that enrich the life of Baltimore City and the

greater Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia community. The BIBFF is presented

annually by SOGAA Inc., a federal tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and will

be held at the historic Charles Theatre, Reginald F. Lewis Museum and University of

Baltimore Learning Commons on October 2-8, 2017 (website: bibff.com)

In a city full of musicians, Leroy Jones, trumpet virtuoso and consummate New Orleanian, is a musician’s musician. Follow Jones’ life journey as he came up

playing on the streets of the Saint Bernard Projects and 7th Ward, quickly establishing

himself as one of NOLA’s most sought after trumpeters, founding the legendary Fairview

Baptist Brass Band and Hurricane Brass Band. In present day Jones was touring and

recording for the past 20 years with Harry Connick Jr. as the solo trumpeter. A decade

after the storm that nearly destroyed his beloved city, Jones is navigating life as both a

world-renowned musician and a citizen amidst a rapidly changing New Orleans.