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The KIDflix Film Fest of Bed-Stuy!, the first annual public program of the newly founded Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), debuted in 2000, when our Museum’s founder, Laurie Cumbo saw an intense need in the community of Bedford-Stuyvesant for arts programming that both exposed children to exceptional art, and also depicted positive reflections of the African Diasporan heritage these Brooklyn neighborhoods are famous for.
The KIDflix Film Fest! is the longest-running kids’ film festival in Brooklyn. Presented by MoCADA since 2000, this annual, interactive program offers kids and their families access to a free, outdoor film screening every Friday night in the month of August.
The KIDflix Film Fest! aims to showcase African Diasporan films of the highest quality in order to expose children and adults to the art of film, as well as to a variety of complex and engaging stories of African Diasporan people that are sorely lacking in mainstream media. KIDflix achieves these goals by offering free, outdoor screenings in the heart of Central Brooklyn communities including Bedford-Stuyvesant and Fort Greene.
The festival’s biggest highlight is its closing event, which always includes a Sing & Dance-Along presentation of The Wiz, featuring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and a costume contest, free popcorn, live performances, free face painting, and more. In addition to film screenings, KIDflix also features live performances, face painting, and whenever possible, post-screening Q&As with the filmmakers. It is important that children not only see people who look like them on the screen but that they also see and hear from the people behind the cameras.
