The film festival season began earlier this year with Sundance and has been going pretty steadily since then. Most festivals have at least featured an online component this year, and many have gone exclusively into the cyber realm. There’s something particularly meaningful about maximizing this cutting-edge format and bringing people together through technology for one of the newest film festivals to hit the scene this year, Afrofuturism: Blackness Revisualized. It’s a new film festival exploring the Afrofuturist genre through 10 films, including features as well as shorts, from the United States, Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria and more, streaming for free nationwide at