The anticipated annual film festival dedicated to the city’s Black cinema landscape is set to return on Aug. 20 with 105 official film selections from across the globe — and it’s celebrating 16 years in business.

“We are glad that we can say we stood the test and we’re still here being a platform for the amazing stories we have to tell about the culture of people of color from around the world,” BronzeLens Executive Producer Kathleen Bertrand said.

On July 31, a crowd of creators and cinephiles packed into the Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation and the Arts at Spelman College. Inside the theater, attendees got a peek at the upcoming screenings and events.

The festival officially runs from Aug. 20 to 24, with a pre-festival panel discussion on Aug. 7, “Cinema and Social Justice”

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