Past Festival Honorees | black-arts-alliance

BK Fulton

2024 Renaissance Award

Christopher Everett

2024 Trailblazer Award

Pam Grier

2023 Lifetime Award

Tailiah Breon

2023 Emerging Filmmaker

Nakia Hamilton

2022 Phoenix Award Winner

Matthew Head 2019 Honoree

The Grenaldo Frazier Award for Music Production in Film

Joe Dunton

2016, Icon Award Recipient

Harold Jackson III

2015, Emerging Filmmaker Award, 14th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival

Alice Blake Powell

2014 Zenith Award 13th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival

Rhonda Bellamy

Founder Emeritus (2014), Recipient of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement award She is the founder of the Black Arts Alliance and the NC Black Film Festival. Photo Credit: Visite Wilmington

Ava DuVernay

2011 Distinguished Filmmaker Honoree, 10th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival, Photo Credit: Houston Style Magazine

Giancarlo Esposito

2009 Prism Award, 8th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival, Photo Credit: Star News Online

Anthony Hemingway

2005 Trailblazer Award 4th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival 2008 Zenith Award 7th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival

April Weeden-Washington

2004 Trailblazer Award 3rd Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival

Dwayne McDuffie (late)

2006 Trailblazer Award 5th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival

Scott Sanders

2010 Distinguished Filmmaker 9th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival, Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore

Eleanor Nichols

2012 Nova Award for Production Achievement, 11th Annual North Carolina Black Film Festival