DvRepublic.org is a project of the Black Filmmaker Foundation (BFF).

DVRepublic.org exist as a self-validating, self-supporting online community of "citizens" who
monitor the intersection of media, technology, and social justice. As informed citizens, we engage in active online discussion in the "public square" of the DV Republic liberated zone.

DV Republic uses the Internet and New Media technology to connect this community and host the BFF Lab which develops and promotes digital filmmaking and interactive new media that is socially concerned, entertainment driven.

We regard the Internet as the liberated zone of the 21st century and the home of our DV Republic. "DV" stands for "digital video" and "dissident voices".

Welcome to the DV Republic,the liberated zone in cyberspace.
Our freedom is protected by you.

The Black Filmmaker Foundation received support from the following funders and sponsors:

Adobe Systems Inc.
CBS Television
Ford Foundation
Fox Television
Home Box Office
MTV Networks
Nathan Cummings Foundation
NBC Universal
Nielsen Media
The Walt Disney Company
Time Warner

Established in 1978, the Black Filmmaker Foundation (BFF) is a non-profit organization that develops and administers programs that assist emerging filmmakers and build audiences for their work. For more than two decades, BFF has played a pivotal role in the emergence of the contemporary black film movement.

1978	BFF is founded by Warrington Hudlin (filmmaker), Alric Nembhard, (business consultant), and George Cunningham (educator).
1979-1985	Produced "Dialogues with Black Filmmakers Summer Film Festival
1980	Organized First National Conference of Black Filmmakers (NYC)
1980-1985	Programmed or assisted the programming of Black Film retrospectives in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Italy, Jamaica, and 12 African Nations
1986-1996	Hosted one of oldest and one of the longest running monthly screenings series of black independent cinema. In its ten-year run, these monthly screenings were hosted in corporate screening rooms at HBO, Sony, Warner Bros, MGM, Tribeca Film Center; Walter Reade Cinema, and Planet Hollywood. In addition, BFF produced a workshop series that was hosted by the Schomberg Research Library, Hunter College, and New York University
1989	10th Anniversary celebration held at Brooklyn Academy of Music and hosted by CBS News Correspondent Ed Bradley and Supermodel Iman. The evening's entertainment featured rising young comic named Chris Rock.
1986-1996	BFF hosted a series of benefit screening of the new wave of black cinema including She Gotta Have It, Hollywood Shuffle, Tougher Than Leather, House Party, Five Heartbeats, New Jack City, Passenger 57,Strickly Business, A Rage in Harlem, Panther, Posse, Boomerang, Mo Money, The Great White Hype
1997-2001	BFF Co-founded and curated the Acapulco Black Film Festival
1997-present	Convenes the annual BFF Summit. (A close door retreat and business caucus of the most influential people of color in motion pictures and television industry)
1999	Launched dvRepublic.org, an online community built around public discussion and critique of popular media entertainment and production of activist media that is social concerned and entertainment driven
1999-2002	Produced the Pass the Torch speaker series and BFF Lab developed micro-budget digital films produced by filmmakers of color
2003	Tribeca Film Festival celebrates BFF's 25th Anniversary (Chris Rock, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, Angela Basset, Courtney Vance, Rev. Al Sharpton, Melvin Van Peoples, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Darryl Chill Mitchell, Tom Freston, in attendance)
2005	BFF Lab Digital Artist in Residence Leba Haber wins Webby for Weapons of Misdirection, a ground breaking online narrative developed in the BFF Lab