BlackStar
Nehad Khader is an experienced professional in the fields of festival direction and editorial management, currently serving as Festival Director and Program Director at BlackStar since July 2015. Prior to this, Nehad held the position of Managing Editor at the Institute for Palestine Studies from May 2013 to July 2015, and was an Editor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from July 2011 to May 2013, where responsibilities included analyzing Middle East events and editing publications related to the Arab World uprisings. Earlier experience includes working as an Archivist, Cataloguer, and Translator at Georgetown University, where over 500 posters were cataloged into the university library database. Nehad holds a Master of Arab Studies from Georgetown University, focusing on authoritarianism, reform, media, gender, and Arabic literature.
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BlackStar
BlackStar creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of Black, Brown and Indigenous artists working outside of the confines of genre. We do this by producing year-round programs including film screenings, exhibitions, an annual film festival, a filmmaker seminar, a film production lab, and a journal of visual culture. These programs provide artists opportunities for viable strategies for collaborations with other artists, audiences, funders, and distributors. We prioritize visionary work that is experimental in its aesthetics, content, and form and builds on the work of elders and ancestors to imagine a new world. We elevate artists who are overlooked, invisibilized or misunderstood and celebrate the wide spectrum of aesthetics, storytelling and experiences that they bring. We bring that work to new audiences as well as place it in dialog with other past and contemporary work. And, we curate every aspect of our events to be intentional community building efforts, connecting diverse audiences in a Black-led space centered on joy and thriving.