Raleigh Film and Art Festival 2025

Experience the joy, fun & excitement of the largest film and art festival in the state of North Carolina! Over 200 + independent films, amazing venues, featuring the best talent of 2025, showcasing the most dynamic film categories, networking, panel discussions and Q&As, conversations with award-winning film makers, captivating spoken word performances, musical artists, art vendors and much more!

Festival highlights from last year!

Our Openning Night Keynote

Dr. Paul K. Baker is currently Founding Director of the Ascension Art Gallery and Fine Art Services, a gallery dedicated to BIPOC artists in downtown Raleigh, NC. He is also Director of the city of Raleigh’s African American Cultural Center and Professor of History in the Department of History and Political Science at North Carolina A & T State University where he teaches African American History and Museum Studies.

Devoted to service, Dr. Baker was appointed to the Board of Directors by Governor Roy Cooper in 2024. He has served on the boards of the Raleigh City Museum, South Carolina African American Heritage Commission and was a gubernatorial appointment to the Associates Board of Directors for the North Carolina Museum of History.

A native of Fairmont, North Carolina, Baker received the B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Art/African American Studies, M.A. from North Carolina State University in Public History and a Ph.D. from North Carolina A & T State University in Leadership Studies from the School of Education. Baker was a Gilder Lehrman Fellow in the Center for Slavery and Abolition at Yale University, Ford Fellow in the Carter G. Woodson Center at the University of Virginia and Oxford Roundtable Fellow at Oxford University in England. He completed Harvard University's Management Development Program and Cornell University's Program in Policy Development.

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Time: Doors 6pm

Event Start: 6:30-8:30pm

Big Thanks! the generous support of our sponsors!

We etend our deepest gratitude to Ascension Gallery for their commitment to the arts and community. Their sponsorship provides the prize awards for this years competition helping us celebrate and uplift the voices of poets who inspire, challenge and move us.

Ascension Gallery is a new fine art gallery and service in downtown Raleigh, NC, that serves as a cultural platform for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) artists, showcasing their modern and contemporary works and helping to foster their careers

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Time: Doors 6pm

Event Start: 6:30-8:30pm

Host or Publisher Raleigh Film and Art Festival