2025 Blackbird Film Festival!
Thank you to the 2025 Black Bird Film Festival for selecting "What Exists" as an Honorable Mention!
West Coast Premiere of "What Exists"
We are overwhelmed with joy to announce that "What Exists" has been chosen as an official selection of the Pasadena International Film Festival! Screening date information to come, but the festival runs from April 3 -10 at the Laemmle NoHo 7 Theater in North Hollywood, CA. Thank you to the PIFF team for this honor! April is a good time for love. More news to come!
Nominated for the Mela Hudson Award
An incredibly humbling honor, "What Exists" has been nominated by the 2024 First Glance Film Festival Philadelphia for the Mela Hudson Award. They created it to honor her life's work and to highlight female filmmakers, and films that feature strong female leads, and empower women. We are deeply impacted and truly grateful. Congratulations to Director Alberta Kallon, Writer Actor Leilani Rosine, Assistant Director Micah Demby, Editor Rachel Washington, Production Coordinator Imani Monroe, Sound Operator Bining Xu, 1st AC Saisha Pringle, and the entire cast and crew on this nomination.
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Nominated for Best Breakout Performance
We are excited to share that Leilani Rosine has been nominated for the Best Breakout Performance Award in "What Exists" by the 2024 First Glance Film Festival Philadelphia! We congratulate every actor nominated in this category for this festival! Tickets are still available via the link below!
Nominated for Best Comedy
We are excited to share that "What Exists" was nominated for Best Comedy at the 2024 First Glance Film Festival Philadelphia! Congratulations to the film's director and producer Alberta Kallon, writer, actor and producer Leilani Rosine, co producer Jesse Feldberg, actors Careem Joy and David Ladwig, Director of Cinematography Olajawon Monroe, Editor Rachel Washington , Sound Editor Aaron Gibbs, Production Coordinator Imani Monroe and the entire crew ! Thank you First Glance Film Fest and congrats to all nominees in this festival! To catch the Philly premiere of this film, click the link below.
2024 First Glance
Film Festival Philadelphia
Sunday September 29th 3:50 PM
"What Exists" was chosen as an official selection for the 2024 First Glance Film Festival Philadelphia, and will have its Philadelphia premiere at the PFS Bourse Theater on Sunday September 29th at 3:50 p.m. Thank you to the festival director and selection committee for this honor! We are grateful and look forward to having this film screen at this festival!! Purchase tickets here!
Premiere MA Screening at the 2024 RSF Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival~ Thank you!
August 9th, 2024
We give many many thank yous to Floyd and Stephanie Rance and all of the administrators and volunteers of the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival for an amazing screening of " What Exists" and the other beautiful and powerful films included!!! Thank you to everyone who attended! Also, grateful that Calibr Films' Leilani Rosine was invited to be a part of the filmmaker's Q&A that followed. Check it out here !
2024 RSF Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
August 9th, 2024 11:00 AM
"What Exists" will screen at the 2024 RSF Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival on Friday August 9th in the short film program #32, from 11am - 12:30 pm! Thank you to the MVAAFF Selection Committee! We are honored and truly grateful to have this film screen at this festival! Learn more here.
Success at the New York African Film Festival~ Deep Gratitude!
May 19th 2024 , 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Deep gratitude to Mahen Bonetti and all of the administrators of the New York African Film Festival for inviting " What Exists" this year , and for inviting its Director/Producer Alberta Kallon and Writer/ Producer Leilani Rosine to be a part of the Filmmaker's Q & A! Learn more here.
Dumbo Film Festival Semi- Finalist
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Thank you to the Directors and Committee of the Dumbo Film Festival for honoring "What Exists" as a 2024 semi-finalist!