Biography

Floyd Webb is a Chicago-based filmmaker, photographer, curator, writer, and cultural producer with a career spanning more than five decades. Working across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Japan, Webb has built a body of work exploring Black history, diaspora, memory, technology, and cultural resistance through documentary film, photojournalism, visual effects, and independent media infrastructure. Webb is Executive Producer of Legally Drugged (2026), a feature film slated for fall release, and is in production on A Good Eye: Capturing Joy, a documentary on the experiential relationship between photography and the Black community. He serves as production historian and creative partner to director Mandla Dube on Yasuke, Way of the Butterfly, in production through the Toei and Pambla Media partnership. His credits include Julie Dash's landmark Daughters of the Dust, John Akomfrah's Last Angel of History and The March, The World of Nat King Cole, United Skates, and Jean-Pierre Bekolo's Cameroonian science-fiction film Les Saignantes (The Bloodettes). He has worked in 3D animation and visual effects in London, and his documentary Kiku's Legacy explores the lives of Afro-Japanese children born during the American occupation of Japan. Webb is the founder of the Blacklight Film Festival (Chicago, 1982), Blacknuss Network, and Blacknuss dot tv, platforms dedicated to the exhibition, preservation, and global circulation of Black and independent cinema. From 2005 to 2020 he curated the Black World Cinema screening series in Chicago, connecting international Black filmmakers with new audiences. He continues to write, lecture, curate, and produce work at the intersection of Black cultural memory, media systems, and independent film in the digital age.
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