Comfrey Films

Seeding black trans futures

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Comfrey Films is a Film Training Program and Production House designed to launch Black trans youth (ages 18-35) into the film industry and tell stories woven at the intersection of being Black and Trans.

We have a simple mission: to train the next generation of Black trans storytellers and filmmakers, to leverage our brand to get Black trans filmmakers paid projects in their communities, and to pay Black trans trainees to work on Comfrey Films projects that further the stories of Black trans people globally.

Black Trans people in our local communities are both explicitly and implicitly discriminated against while trying to find employment. We, either have to sacrifice our gender and humanity for employment or we exist in work environments that are degrading to our humanity.

Comfrey Films is creating work spaces that prioritize our freedom of expression, creativity, and center our experience as community leaders in racial and gender justice. We are reclaiming our right to choose the things that we do for work, our right to self-determine, and our right to dignity as human beings. Comfrey Films is a direct intervention into one of the main barriers to survival for Black Trans people here in North Carolina.

Support Comfrey Films!

Comfrey Films is raising $30,000 through December 31, 2024 to bring short films by Black Trans people to the big screen! Earlier this year we held our first Black Trans Short Film Competition and the response was clear–we need more connection and celebration of each other and our stories. With your help, Comfrey Films will present this expanded vision and bring a Black Trans Short Film Festival to Durham in 2025! Black TGNCI imagination makes it possible for us to build new worlds and leave something behind for future generations to access; this is why we do this work and need the support of our village.

Help us bring these stories to life by making a one-time or recurring donation below.

In this moment it is critical for Black Trans voices to be heard, for our histories to be archived, and for our visions to be brought to life. Your donations go to Black Trans storytellers and their culture-shifting films, moving us closer to the world where all of us are free.

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