Goal

The goal is to capture your imagination and educate you about issues you might not know much about. The festival champions the service work of sororities, fraternities, churches, nonprofits, and civic organizations. This festival is a way to maximize impact, to help raise awareness, and support the good that is happening in the world! Your support means that our non-profit orgainzation, TMT Youth Community Foundation can fuel a cradle to career pipeline to employ college graduates to pursue a career in Mass Communications. We hope you leave the festival as one of our newest TMT Community Network Partners dedicated to rebuilding your block.

About The Festival

TMT Film Festival is dedicated to presenting an array of relevant and engaging films addressing complex social issues and hardships. Our mission is to educate, inspire, engage and connect diverse people around common goals through the art of storytelling and filmmaking. TMT Film Festival benefits the TMT Youth Community Foundation whose mission is to create a global social entrepreneurial educational network system that delivers economic opportunities to impoverished communities. Filmed and produced by TMT Mentees , this year's film festival will highlight President Trump's Executive Order - Opportunity Zones.

Our Mission

We showcase short documentary and narrative films that create positive self perceptions for African American youth. The foundation of these films work to elevate the research of Camille Cosby's book "Television's Imageable Influences" and Donald Bogle's book Primetime Blues, African Americans on Network Television. We aim to bring together people of different cultures and backgrounds in one place for the celebration of life, culture and diversity through our official selections of films. We strive to create a cradle to career atmosphere for young filmmakers and encourage positive images for social impact. Our mission is to empower lives by celebrating the power of media for social justice.

Festival Theme - Buy, Fix Up, Rebuild the Block -

Reclaiming Our Legacy

Created as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Opportunity Zones are low-income census tracts that offer tax incentives to invest and hold capital gains in Zone assets or property. States designated up to 25% of low income census tracts as Opportunity Zones. The goal of the Opportunity Zone tax incentive is to drive long-term equity capital to distressed communities with tax benefits on investments in Opportunity Funds. The law authorizes U.S. Treasury to define and certify Opportunity Funds to deploy equity investment capital in real estate and businesses. U.S. investors receive a temporary tax deferral and other tax benefits when they reinvest unrealized capital gains into Opportunity Funds for a minimum of five years.

Submissions

Short Documentary -
Produced By TMT Youth Community Foundation

We are looking for documentaries that reimagines buying, fixing up, and rebuilding our communities. We want to motivate our audiences learn about tax incentives that exist in our neighborhood. Shorts must be between 2- 3 minutes in order to qualify.

Short Youth Narrative -
Produced By Commuity Organizations

Storytelling is at the heart of the human experience. In this short narrative students reimagine their community and describe what they would like to see on their block. can be any genre that makes an impact on its audience. We are looking for short films that create a social impact on the human experience, no matter what that experience may be. Shorts must be between 2-3minutes in order to qualify.

Team

There are countless people who make the TMT Film Fest what it is. At the core of that group stands a team of people who believe in the unifying power of positive African American Images, social change, and civic engagement and they dedicate an unbelievable number of hours to prove that commitment. If you would you like to volunteer your time to help with the TMT Film Festival, Here's your chance! We'd love to have interested individuals help out and join our ever-growing team. We are always eager for more help in a variety of ways.

Sponsorships

The TMT Film Festival will engage a large audience on-site and on social media. This represents a branding promotion opportunity for all companies who share community values regarding diversity and inclusion, and involved in promoting global awareness for positive social change.