PREVIOUS FESTIVALS

Mark Your Calendar! CBIFF 2022: May 21 – 22, 2022

2021 COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

2021 Winners

BEST FEATURE FILM:

"Love the One You’re With"

dir. Spencer Collins

BEST SHORT FILM:

"Silent Partner"

dir. Aristotle Torres

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY:

"Wash Day" 

dir. Kourtney Jackson

Best Music Video:

"X-Ray" 

dir. Martaize Smith

Best Homegrown Film:

"The Foundation"

dir. Martelli Graves

Best Short Screenplay:

"The Good Fight" 

by Mark Heath Howard

Best Feature Screenplay:

"Domino Effect"

by Jasmyn Green

2020 COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

2020 Winners

Best Short Documentary:

Damita

by William Feagins Jr

Best Music Video:

Tribe

by Maceo Tendaji

Best Animation:

Black Champagne

by Jeremiah Williams

Best Homegrown:

From a place of Love my adoption journey

by David Bynum.

Best Short Screenplay:

Principesa

by Desiree Winns

Best Feature Screenplay:

Home

by Jamel Tyre Mack

Best International Film:

Conversations with Millennials

by Madu Dube

Best Short Film:

Promise me

by Alison Duke

Best Feature Film:

Gotta get down to it

by Jonathan Tazewell

Buckeye Audience Award:

Artist act of Love

by Kuukua Eshun

2020 CBIFF MOBILE SHORT FILM CONTEST

COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

2020 Mobile Short Film Contest Winners

1st Place: Quatric Williams

2nd Place: David Lloyd

3rd Place: RBM Royalty

2019 COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

2019 Winners

Best Animation :

Wash Day

dir. Jaida Salmon

Best Short Film:

Know me So Well

dir. Starr Nathan

Best Feature Film:

Bakas`o: Afrobeat of Cuba

dir. Eli Jacobs- Fantauzzi

Best Short Documentary:

Redacted

dir. Naeema Jamilah Torres

Best Music Video:

Moody; DotCalm

dir. Mario Hensley

Best International Film:

The Turning Son

dir. Thabiso Christopher

Best Feature Screenplay: 

Mickey Hardaway

dir. Marcellus Cox

Best Short Screenplay:

Survival of Ghostwriter

dir. Ericka Gomez

Buckeye Choice Awards:

The Runaways

dir. Dewey Ortiz Jr.

2018 COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

COLUMBUS BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

2018 Winners

BEST FEATURE:

"Black Cop"

dir. Corey Bowles

Best Short Film:

"Othello-San"

dir. Theodore Adams

Best Short Documentary:

"Donté and Day'Mariah"

dir. Donté Woods-Spikes

Best International Film: 

"Kasala"

dir. Ema Edosio

Best Music Video:

"October '96"  

dir. Adetokumboh

Best Homegrown Film:

"KAM"

dir. Kwamé Berry

Best Animated Film:

"Abeeka and the Maroons"

dir. Kevin Jackson

Best Short Screenplay:

"Collars" 

by Aaron Harris

Best Feature Screenplay:

"Blue Cadillac, White Girl"

by Lamarr Gray

Buckeye Choice Awards:

"KAM"

dir. Kwamé Berry