The Vision

MISSION STATEMENT
Images of Black Women is an international film festival celebrating and promoting African Caribbean women on screen and behind the lens in order to:

· increase the visibility of African Caribbean women in film
· identify who the African Caribbean women are within the industry, where they are and their experiences
· create and highlight opportunities to attract more Black women into film at all levels
· help to retain and sustain them within the industry
· showcase established, new and emerging film talent
· unearth hidden cinematic treasures created by, or featuring, Black women from across the globe
· make film a family event
· increase knowledge of the role of Black women in film, both past and present
· host an annual film festival to coincide with international women's week in March
· broadening the landscape of Blackness in film
· identify the next generation of talent
· a vehicle of empowerment

Festival Directors
Betty Sulty-Johnson & Sylviane Rano