Long Beach Indie is a 5-day film, media and music festival that seeks to celebrate global diversity through film and expose urban youth to careers in arts, entertainment and STEM. In our inaugural year (2014) we drew more than 3000 attendees, screened 100+ films, and our winner for Best Animated Short (The Dam Keeper) was nominated for an Academy Award.
Long Beach Indie is the brainchild of scholar, filmmaker and arts advocate Dr. Daniel E. Walker. A professor of Latin American and African American history at El Camino College and producer/director of the documentary films When Roosters Crow, Sol Brothers, and The Ten (in production), Walker is also
the head of the Gospel Music History Archive at USC and the Board Chair of both the BLU Educational Foundation and the Believe Foundation.