The Vibe Urbanworld Film festival (formerly the UrbanWorld Film Festival) recently celebrated its tenth year of bringing attention to the urban filmmaking community with its annual event in New York City.

Once again the festival included feature, documentary, short film, and music video screenings, as well as panel discussions, live staged screenplay readings and other events. A sponsor of the festival, the DGA once again hosted a luncheon for festival filmmakers where guest speakers Rose Troche (The Safety of Objects) a member of the DGA Eastern Independent Directors Committee, and Warrington Hudlin (Cosmic Slop) a DGA member who was also a juror at this year's Festival, spoke to the Urbanworld directors about the advantages of DGA membership.