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The poster for Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story

We built a home for the stories that nourish our roots and feed the soul.

We are creatives, dreamers, truth‑seekers, and builders who stopped waiting for a seat and built our own table. It’s a place where artists, griots, and truth‑tellers are celebrated, and where every one of us can be in Overflow.

We were built for the audience that has been overlooked, talked past, and told to settle.

While every other platform races to get bigger, we chose to go deeper, with a library made for us where every title has earned its place. Every title is chosen by people who share our reference points, then framed and programmed like it matters.

We started with cinema, and we now hold film, series, docs, podcasts, and events to the same standard.

A full house at an Overflow Presents screening
Overflow Presents

We gather in person to watch these films together.

At Overflow Presents, the film is only half the experience, and the other half is everyone who showed up to feel it with us. Our first two nights at The Picture House in Bronxville brought 130 of us together, and members of the Overflow Council vote on what we screen next and where.

A still from Restaveks

Restaveks, an Overflow Original in the making

Every title, screening, and dollar has a reason to be there.

Our members’ support goes to licensing films, paying filmmakers fairly, and making new Overflow Originals like Restaveks.

The Overflow team together, laughing, hands joined

If these stories move you and this mission feels like yours, you’re already one of us.

Questions, ideas, and the stories you think we should see can always reach us at hello@beinoverflow.com.