The Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival starts today in New york City. The 2007 slate will feature the world premieres of Who's Your Caddy?, the very first release from Robert L. Johnson's and Tracy Edmonds's Our Stories Films.

This year's slate also features especially robust selections from Latino American, Asian American and female directors, and several films with ties to New York City. "This year, the Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival is presenting what is arguably our most diverse slate to-date, from the perspective of both filmmakers and subject matter," said Stacy Spikes, founder of Urbanworld. "As in years past, we've worked very hard to ensure this year's slate represents the best of urban filmmaking featuring untold stories from a unique perspective. We invite film fans everywhere to share in the celebration of its diversity." Opening the festival will be Jerry LaMothe's Blackout, which stars Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Saldana, Sean Blakemore, and Melvin Van Peebles. Among the films showing will be

Mr. Untouchable, a world premiere screening from Magnolia Pictures, directed by Marc Levin and executive produced by Damon Dash, about the life and times of notorious Harlem drug lord, Leroy "Nicky" Barnes;
World premiere of Gangsta Rap: A Glockumentary directed by Damon "Coke" Daniels;
World premiere of Faizon Love's Tao of the Golden Mask directed by Faizon Love;
Hellfighters, directed by John Frankel, a New York filmmaker, is a documentary about Harlem's only high school football team;
Annual Screenplay Readings featuring live performances of scenes from the 5 Screenplay Category finalists, including the return to Urbanworld of Ryan Richmond, whose feature script, Money Matters, is based on a short that was in competition at the 2005 festival