2026 Schedule

New World Center - Performance Hall

• The Final Game: Inside the Legacy of All American Sponsored by Warner Bros. Television
  12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
• Best of the ABFF Awards Ceremony

  8:30 PM

  8:30 PM - 10:15 PM

New World Center - Truist Pavilion

• Storyteller Unleashed: The Creative Powerhouse Behind Your Favorite Amazon MGM Originals Sponsored by Amazon MGM Studios
  11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• In the Director's Chair: The Making of GOAT with Tyree Dillihay Sponsored by Sony Pictures Entertainment
  1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
• Iyanla Vanzant: Behind the Inside Fix. Moderated by CNN’s Abby Phillip Sponsored by OWN
  4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
• Meeting the Moment: A Documentary from L’Oréal Groupe and T Brand Sponsored by L’Oréal Groupe · ABFF Sports Track
  6:45 PM - 8:00 PM

Convention Center - Theater #1

• Voices of Culture Block #5 The Checklist, I Got My Brother, If only you knew, Iku Aka (Knocking on the Door), Keep My Brother
  10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
• AI x XR Storytelling Showcase
  1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
• Kanan's Evolution: An Inside Look at Season Five of "Power Book III: Raising Kanan" Sponsored by STARZ
  4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
• Thought She Was The One 6:45 PM
  6:45 PM - 8:33 PM

Convention Center - Theater #2

• Voices of Culture Block #6 AFUFU, Beach Day, Mini Me, Touching, Vengeance Is All I Have, When They’re Gone
  10:30 AM - 12:20 PM
• Girl Dad 1:55 PM
  1:55 PM - 3:50 PM
• Homage 5:20 PM
  5:20 PM - 7:10 PM
• Voices of Culture Block #7 Cutoff, H. P. V. (Her Pretty Vagina), HOMEbirth, The Last Wish, Pan Gyul, Yellow Pages
  8:40 PM - 10:30 PM

O Cinema

• Basement People and Q&A Sponsored by The Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition (BLACC), powered by AHF
  11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
• Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story 1:15 PM
  1:15 PM - 3:00 PM
• ALTADENA - Rising From The Ashes 4:30 PM
  4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
• Montmartre 7:20 PM
  7:20 PM - 9:25 PM

Other Venues

• Miami Beach Black Cultural Heritage Tour Free Sanctioned Community Event · (Miami Beach - Meet at Miami Beach Convention Center)
  
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  10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
• Branded Activations Ally Cinematic Lounge Presented by Ally Financial

  10:00 AM - 7:00 PM

  (Miami Beach Convention Center - Floor 2) · Welcome Home Presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture

  10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

  (Miami Beach Convention Center - Floor 2) Frame Your Moment with Lexus Presented by Lexus

  10:30 PM - 3:00 AM

  (M2 Nightclub)
  1:00 PM - 10:00 PM
• The Legendary White Party: Legacy Edition

  10:00 PM

  · (M2 Nightclub)
  10:00 PM - 12:00 AM