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in the nation's capital. yes, the film festival is known for showcasing the early work of filmmakers like ryan coogler, issa rae, and ava duvernay. i with one of the organizers about what local film lovers can expect for the pop up tour kicking off today. american black film festival is an annual festival that's held for a week long in the summertime, and its films, panels, conversations. it's talent discovery. it's connecting artists, filmmakers, cultural enthusiasts together in this kind of behemoth of an experience over a week. so 30 years into this event, we wanted to, you know, say like, hey, we're going to bring a piece of that to you. we have this amazing pop up tour. this is our second year doing it, where we'll be going through different cities across the us, giving pieces of that big, huge abff to local markets and no better place to kick it off than dc. okay, so what does it kind of walk us through? you know, what our viewers can get involved in september 25th through the 27th will be at angelika pop up in union market. and essentially we're taking some of the best pieces of abff, which are panel conversations. we'll do spotlight screenings, which are kind of sponsored screenings of films and television content, as well as some of our best winners for our independent film screenings. they'll be here as well. we're opening our our film festival with our narrative feature, which is called three colors. it's actually a really interesting film where three directors came together to make one film, and they each have a section of the film, and it all kind of converges into this one story, right? and then on the next day, we'll have a screenwriting masterclass for those who are interested in jumping into the screenwriting space. we'll have kind of a true crime television kind of opportunity kind of screening that we're working with, with tv one. we're doing some short film screenings with events. dc. we have some celebrity conversations. we'll have tay diggs in the house with us this week. so it's a, it's a mixture of a bunch of different things. it's a mix, something for the film enthusiasts who are truly wanting to kind of jump into the film space is for the folks who just love films and just want to watch them themselves. we have a documentary for those who are into kind of nonfiction kind of stories, just something for everyone to get into. yeah. i mean, you know what i really think is great? not just, you know, the screenings and the conversations, but the screenwriting workshops. absolutely. if you've always dreamed of, you know, i want to know what it takes to put together my own documentary, short film. i mean, that is key because there's a definite process. yeah. definite way a screenplay needs to look and all that kind of stuff. so yeah, that's great. so unfortunately, tickets recently sold out, but i don't know, follow them on social media. maybe they'll drop some more this weekend. you never know because lauren being indoors and watching some